American distilleries ‘devastated’ by collapse of trade talks as they face hundreds of millions in lost sales

Tariffs aren't just Trump's obsession, they're a core part of Project 2025's economic plan, so any R president/congress is going to keep throwing up tariffs.

Of course, tariffs aren't actually helping American workers, because they're effectively a hidden sales tax, while the R's block labor reforms, such as increasing mimumum wage, destroying unions, etc. as they have done for decades.

Agreed. I'm in one and it's hurting distilleries here. Absolutely fuck them!

I still buy Canadian goods. Don't care, worth it. Besides I'm less likely to get food poisoning. Win WIn

If conservatives/regressives weren't blaming other people for their problems, they wouldn't be conservatives anymore.

Quite, the first 2016 term had some similar things so dropping liquor sales isn't a unexpected event.

You're not going to buy back Canadian customers.

Crown Royal ftw!

Have you seen the price of things? It's definitely showing cracks

Was the Canadian market that important for American liquor that our boycott busted them?

Yeah, it has been pretty damaging, but great for our local industry

When a few beers cost as much as a 12 pack and a DUI can completely derail your life, I don't blame them.

thats why they are trying to legislate weed and ozempic. both of these reduce alcohol consumption.

I'm with you 100%, but I seriously doubt the purple you're directing that at will ever read it. I get it though. Just typing it out is cathartic even if only like-minded people and the void see it.

Canada makes some of the best whiskeys (and ryes) in the world, we'll have plenty to drink for sure!

Alberta is run by Charles Koch via a lobbyist stooge, and a media ecosystem bought and paid for by Blackrock. Nearly half of "Albertans" have been in Alberta less than 20 years, about 25% of those are people came from Texas or the US Midwest, and the rest were people who washed out of polite society in other provinces and were willing to dig holes for big oil for a meal and some meth money.

Alberta has an immigration problem, but it isn't black or brown people that are the problem so it doesn't get phrased that way.

IDK about Sask. But Berta's premier is a traitor working for Dumpie.

Can't speak for Saskatchewan but Alberta's leadership is trying their hardest to turn it into North Texas.

I don't know much about Canadian provinces, but I'd be willing to bet there's a lot of cousin fuckers 'round those parts.

They are the fossil fuel provinces. Alberta is by far the most entitled of every provinces. They were living by Canada's teet for a long time and then found a way to process the oil sands. By this point, they became rich. They at first tried to manage this new riches properly, establishing a provincial fund, a generation fund that the Norwegians basically copied. But then they started to elect conservative governments. Those governments reduced taxes as much as they could, slashed social programs, spent every dime they could and now they complain about the rest of Canada (especially Quebec) because they're not as rich as them. Today, their generational fund is mostly non existent while the Norwegian one is the biggest investment fund on earth.

They are the perfect example of entitled there is. They always complain that they don't want to pay the federal government for other provinces while a few years ago (decade, was in 2008 I think) oil became so cheap for a brief moment and Alberta really struggled as their oil extraction is expensive and they basically burned through their money. All they did is complain for the federal government to help them. And they went right back to their usual behavior when oil went back up. Complete assholes.

Alberta is completely captured by the oil and gas industry. Its population is docile and captured. Whatever any government does, they always vote conservative, no matter what. Saskatchewan is less bad as it's quieter, but their voting pattern is mostly the same. So for any federal government, why answer to Alberta's pleading as what ever they do, it will never change the outcome of the vote? It's good anyway as their pleadings are unreasonable. They prefer electing traitors that meet and side with Trump behind the federal government's back during a trade war, against the rest of Canada.

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https://newkentuckyhome.ky.gov/international/Exports

Last year, Kentucky’s top five export products were:

Aerospace products and parts - $23.5 billion

Motor vehicles - $4.3 billion

Pharmaceuticals and medicines - $4.1 billion

Motor vehicle parts - $2.2 billion

Computer equipment - $1.6 billion

Granted, the number one country it exports to is Canada, but alcohol is a sliver.

let me rephrase that yor you… at a time when people are drinking less and less, destilleries lost an additional 10% of sales, sudendly and likely long term, due to the pedo president absurd trade war

How much headroom do you think businesses have? Losing even 5% is a big deal, and the only lever they have is laying off staff.

The people who own jack-daniels, for instance, shed 600+ jobs this year because of the reduction in demand. Even 600 seems small, but to a town that's a lot of local income. And when they see that same 5, 10, 20% drop (more if it's a small town) then the losses will both amplify and hit more businesses in parallel ... which could have their own layoffs. It's an amplifying, self-feeding monster.

Some are drinking less but those Canadians that still drink aren't drinking US liquor. Trying to keep those that still drink as customers seems like a better plan than pissing them off.