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Buzzkill: Trumps trade wars threaten Americas craft brewers already reeling from changing tastes - WTOP News
2025-04-18 13:45:03| Spiritual Career Counseling
Home National News Buzzkill: Trump's trade wars Americas craft brewers already have enough problems. Hard seltzers and cocktails are muscling into beer sales. Millennials and Gen Z dont drink as much as their elders. Brewpubs still havent fully recovered from the shock of COVID-19 five years ago.Now theres a new threat: President Donald Trumps tariffs, including levies of 25% on imported steel and aluminum and on goods from Canada and Mexico.Its going to cost the industry a substantial amount of money, said Matt Cole, brewmaster at Ohio-based Fat Heads Brewery. Trump trade war will be crippling for our industry if this carries out into months and years.The tariffs, some of which have been suspended until April 2, could impact brewers in ways big and small, said Bart Watson, president and CEO of the Brewers Association, the trade group for craft beer. Aluminum cans are in Trumps crosshairs. And nearly all the steel kegs used by U.S. brewers are made in Germany, so a ta...
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