How the peaceful world of puzzles has been upended by the global trade war [Video]

Puzzle people are used to putting pieces in their place. But the chaos of the Canada-U.S. trade war is flipping the industry over, leaving business owners to pick up the pieces. 

“It’s the uncertainty. It’s nearly impossible to navigate,” Bruce Donnelly told Day 6. 

Donnelly is the owner of Puzzles Canada, based in Georgetown, Ont. It’s one of the largest puzzle retailers in Canada, stocking 92 jigsaw brands and thousands of different puzzles. It ships thousands of them each week. 

But the current trade war has taken a sizable piece out of those orders. And with continued uncertainty around tariffs, many puzzle retailers on both sides of the border are worried about the future of their businesses. 

The Toy Association, a lobby group for the U.S. toy industry, surveyed 400 of its member companies in April. It found that nearly half of its small or medium-sized businesses were worried they may go out of business because of their government’s …