Good job showing how tariffs on foreign wines are affecting the domestic three-tier marketing system for wines.
by MyNebraskaKitchen
Good job showing how tariffs on foreign wines are affecting the domestic three-tier marketing system for wines.
by MyNebraskaKitchen
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Unless I’m missing something (I cancelled my WAPO subscription a while ago), the so-called “article” says nothing other than tariffs are going to hurt domestic wine production (without any detail).
I saw this today in WaPo and was pleased that they highlighted the broken prohibition-era distribution system. I imagine it is equally as destructive as tariffs.
The article is otherwise very light on details and reads mostly like something hastily put together on a Friday afternoon.
I doubt the tariffs are going anywhere for now, but it would be great to see the government at least allow American producers to sell direct.
Just another example showing how republicans really aren’t familiar with anything they rule on.
US wine production relies directly on European manufacturing for cork, tin foils, premium bottles, barrels, other cooperage, yeast, tartaric acid, fining materials and other tools of production. The tariff on one invoice I sighed this this week was $20,000. This economic policy is directly affecting our profits. And no at current supply and demand we cannot simply pass this through to our customers
OK, I finally read the article. While, I’m no fan of the triple tier system, I find the premise on tarriffs a bit far fetched. TL;DR: Tarriffs on European wine import hurt the distributors because that’s where they make all their profits which was subsidizing the US wine distribution since there’s substantial more profit from the EU wines. The alleged fix: get rid of the requirement to use distributors.