Even if the tariffs were to be reversed tomorrow, one wine business leader said, it’ll take "at least a year, if not longer, for my industry to recover.”
Canada’s break from American-made wine and the Trump administration’s global tariffs have compounded the struggles of the United States’ already-stressed wine industry to the point that it may be difficult for much of it “to come back from,” an American wine organization leader told NBC News.
“Canada is the single most important export market for U.S. wines with retail sales in excess of $1.1 billion annually,” Robert Koch, the California Wine Institute’s president and CEO, said in a statement.
Last month Canada united to boycott American wines — taking all U.S.-made vino and alcohol off its liquor and wine store shelves and out of restaurants across the country — as an aggressive retaliatory response to Trump’s tariffs on its political ally north of the border.
Sorry America, but your administration has decided you need to suffer. You should do something about that.
Until then, borders closed. We aren’t visiting or buying your crap.
Thank you for that, seriously.
Your external pressure helps encourage more people to rise up. I’ve seen a ton of Canadian flags at the 50501 protests. We stand in solidarity against this madness.
I see this as an absolute win for freedom & democracy.
Farmers are currently in the “Finding Out” stage unfortunately. They were warned.
Although the overwhelming majority of American wine comes from the three deep blue west coast states, so probably not these farmers in particular.
That’s a lot of Red for a deep blue state.
Turns out, people vote, not land
39% Trump is a lot of fascists.
Good thing land doesn’t vote lol
I want to know how they voted before I feel sorry for them. . . That being said, I did notice my usual brand of wine went up by $2 a bottle this month. Guess they are trying to make up for this mess.
“Aggressive response”, lol. Moron-in-chief is threatening to annex their country!
“We’re gonna invade and annex your country!”
“Well, we’re not gonna buy any more of your stuff, then!”
“Whoa, so aggressive!”
I live in Australia and the local winery is owned by a Californian company that sends all their output exclusively to the US domestic market. It would be such a shame if those US companies fucked off and profits went back into the local economy.
Guess they should have thought about that before voting…or should have actually voted!
Californians?
More towards America as a whole. We all know how California votes so it’s not on them that’s for sure. But they sure are suffering from the election outcome that’s for sure and it really sucks.
Good. Maybe it will make them stand up to their tyrannical dictator. That’s what this is all about.
The people that make wine in california vote conservative. The cities are liberal but rural is very red.
There’s a lot of wine country in Eastern Washington, Idaho, and Oregon, too. Rural areas with rural voters. Walla Walla county went hard for Trump, even though he lost statewide.
Since nobody else will be buying wine or jack Daniels, and whatever other alcohol, I am guessing alcohol will become cheaper and alcoholism will be on the rise, the next few years.
Make Americans Alcoholics Again
Hey, just like Russia!
Trump’s tariffs lowering the US wine industry’s sales is just preparation for his environmental policies lowering their production by making it harder to grow grapes. It’ll all balance out eventually.
Come for us and we won’t go easily like your citizens.
But I kept hearing that the US doesn’t need Canada?
The US would have a trade surplus with Canada if not for oil which Canada sells at below market rate, the US refines and then sells for 3x their purchase price.
If anything, Canada subsidizes the US.
some of the electricity too.
Sad because California has started to make a few decent wines.
What about #Arkansas wine from Altus ?
(Sorry, gotta represent my home state, even if our government sucks.)
Could be worse, you could be from Tennessee.
On most metrics Tennessee is better than Arkansas. Are you referencing any particular defect in Teneessee? I’ve only spent a little time there; a weekend trip over the river to Memphis.
EDIT: Oh, I’m an idiot. Jack Daniel’s. Yeah, that economy is going to take a serious hit from CA and EU deciding they don’t want that product.
I partly grew up in Tennessee.
If I had a house in Tennessee and an apartment in hell, I’d rent the house and live in hell.
But hey, I’m brown, and the people were monsters.
Good. Alcohol is evil anyway.
Lol what a judgemental person
Huh? I don’t judge drug users; I judge the substance itself, which should be banned.
It’s not “drugs and alcohol”; it’s “drugs.” Anything else only means alarmingly successful marketing.
I’m not against mind-altering substances! If people need relaxation through a mind-altering substance, marijuana has consistently proven to be far healthier overall, since you can’t overdose on it and there is no hangover if used correctly. Alcohol, on the other hand…
https://www.niaaa.nih.gov/alcohols-effects-health/alcohols-effects-body
which should be banned.
We tried that. It didn’t go so well.
