most provinces in Canada have stopped importing American alcoholic beverages in retaliation. The country accounts for about 10% of Kentucky’s $9bn (£6.7bn) whiskey and bourbon business.
Liquor giant Diageo, reported that sales of Bulleit, a Kentucky distillery that makes bourbon, rye and whiskey, where down 7.3% this fiscal year.
The last line of the article is most telling imo, Canadian producers are figuring out how to home brew bourbon. These changes are going to be structural and permanent. Why import what you can do yourself?
The story repeats itself across many if not all sectors. The intent of the tariffs is to reduce US reliance on foreign imports. Instead it’s making foreign importers less reliant on the US
This really does feel like a point of no return. Structural self-imposed contraction in the West and BRICS is thriving, settling trades in local currency
An incredible self-own
The last line of the article is most telling imo, Canadian producers are figuring out how to home brew bourbon. These changes are going to be structural and permanent. Why import what you can do yourself?
The story repeats itself across many if not all sectors. The intent of the tariffs is to reduce US reliance on foreign imports. Instead it’s making foreign importers less reliant on the US
I love to watch the empire crumble. I hate to be in it tho
This really does feel like a point of no return. Structural self-imposed contraction in the West and BRICS is thriving, settling trades in local currency
There’s just no way the US goes quietly