Trump's Trade War Is Already Hurting American Whiskey Distillers
Source: time
By Ciara Nugent 8:42 AM EDT
The consequences of the Trump administration’s steel and aluminum tariffs are already being felt across global markets. But the makers of one iconic American product say they stand to suffer more than most: bourbon whiskey distillers.
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Bourbon whiskey is among the U.S. exports on the E.U.’s list of potential targets for retaliatory tariffs, alongside Harley-Davidson motorcycles and Levi’s jeans. Distillers and whiskey sellers told TIME the threat of retaliation had already had an impact. “Even before these tariffs are in place, I’m losing business,” says Stephen Gould, founder of the Colorado-based Golden Moon Distillery, which sells bourbon to several countries in the E.U. “I’ve already had customers in Europe that have stopped ordering because they’re concerned.”
“I’m having to do damage control with partners in Italy and the U.K. I’m going to have to take a cut on my profits, because the people on the other side won’t take the hit. If it’s more expensive to get American bourbon or rye they’ll just go for other products.”
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Europeans have developed quite a taste for American whiskeys in recent years. Sales to the E.U. account for almost half of all U.S. spirit exports and 85% of these are American whiskey, according to the American Craft Spirits Association..................
Read more: http://time.com/5298329/trumps-trade-war-whiskey-distillers/
Hoping these folks remember these hardships in November!
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the distillers here might build overseas plants and start making Jack Daniels and Makers Mark in the EU or Asia!......
The hangover from tRump will be far worse and long-lasting that a fifth of Jack.....
It could be done if they want to escape American labor here and tariff costs across the pond. Europe has plenty of oak and barrel makers, they grow corn and barley and have plenty of experienced distillers.
And, I don't think we have have the product protections such as those in the EU for cheese, wine, etc., that requires products to be made in a particular region.
But you're probably right - people overseas will just switch to a different liquor. That's what folks here in KY would do. When I was a kid in TN in the 60s (in a dry county, too), moonshine was our standard of reference - so anything a little better was "movin' on up", LOL.
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and friends and bailing out a Chinese telecommunications company that spied on the US. Hope y'all remember that when the midterms come around.
Cheers! 
I expect the Republicans to move the heavens and earth to remedy this. Now this is something they might split with Trump over. I wondered what it would take. Certainly, thousands dying from the lack of health coverage didn't do it. Mammoth tax cuts for the wealthy, while sticking it to the middle and poor classes didn't do it. Playing pat-a-cake with the Russians didn't do it (although most Republican politicians are guilty of that themselves). But attacking Southern heritage? 
It alarms me that Trump is once again harming the people he swore to protect with his stupid tariffs. The owners and distillers will lay people off rather than take a hit to their own over-stuffed wallets.
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