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Distillers, brewers caught in the midst of commerce battle: ‘Collateral harm’

Editorial Board Published March 17, 2025
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‘The Massive Cash Present’ panel discusses President Donald Trump’s plan to carry manufacturing again to America.

The escalating commerce battle between the U.S. and its allies is affecting U.S. brewers and distillers.

Some distilleries have pulled out of international markets because of the uncertainty surrounding tariffs, whereas beer makers are going through an impending tax on aluminum, that means the price of cans might surge.

The Trump administration has been making an attempt to reshape international commerce in favor of U.S. manufacturing. President Donald Trump on Thursday threatened to impose a 200% tariff on alcohol merchandise from France and different European international locations. The menace got here shortly after the European Union introduced it could proceed with a deliberate 50% tariff on American whiskey. The European Fee’s plan to impose counter-tariffs on 26 billion euros’ ($28 billion) price of U.S. items exports was in response to Trump’s 25% tariffs on metal and aluminum imports.

Distilled Spirits Council CEO Chris Swonger desires the president to safe a spirits settlement with the EU, arguing that the U.S. spirits sector helps greater than $200 billion in financial exercise. It additionally supplies 1.7 million jobs throughout manufacturing, distribution, hospitality and retail, and purchases about 2.8 billion kilos of grains from American farmers, in accordance with Swonger.

“We urge President Trump to secure a spirits agreement with the EU to get us back to zero-for-zero tariffs, which will create U.S. jobs and increase manufacturing and exports for the American hospitality sector,” he mentioned in an announcement final week. “We want toasts not tariffs.”

TRUMP’S 25% TARIFF INCREASE ON ALL STEEL, ALUMINUM IMPORTS TAKES EFFECT, PROMPTING RETALIATION FROM EUROPE

Distillers like Jeff Quint, proprietor of Cedar Ridge Distillery in Iowa, discover themselves within the center. Whereas Quint instructed FOX Enterprise he understands what the administration is making an attempt to do, he mentioned, “It’s pretty hard to argue that bourbon isn’t going to be part of the collateral damage from this process.”

A shot of somebody working at Cedar Ridge Distillery in Iowa. (Cedar Ridge Distillery)

“Collateral damage would be a good descriptor of what bourbon looks to be in this process,” he mentioned, including that the business would like “no tariffs in either direction, which is mostly what we’ve had for decades, and that’s worked out quite well.” 

Quint mentioned the imposition of tariffs forces distillers to drag out of international markets due to the lackluster demand. This may subsequently trigger an oversupply within the U.S., creating extra competitors between distillers domestically.

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“If you have 300 distilleries making bourbon, and we continue to make the same amount of bourbon while global demand is going down via tariffs being slapped on bourbon, then you’re going to end up with a glut of bourbon here domestically,” Quint mentioned. “That could help the consumer because it could drive pricing down on bourbon, but it’s not going to help the 300 distilleries that make the bourbon.” 

Harry Schuhmacher, writer of Beer Enterprise Day by day, instructed FOX Enterprise that within the bourbon and wine enterprise there may be “either a massive glut of too much liquid or we can’t get enough of anything.” 

Cedar Ridge barrels at its distillery in Swisher, Iowa. (Cedar Ridge Distillery/ Liz Zabel)

“It’s always feast or famine,” Schuhmacher mentioned. “Unfortunately, just as these tariffs are coming on the bourbon industry, even before this was starting to experience a glut, not only because demand has softened, but because they made a bunch of it five years ago.” 

Schuhmacher additionally argued that one other concern is that, in contrast to beer, unopened bourbon isn’t perishable and might final on cabinets for 50 years or extra.

“That’s why we in the beer industry don’t have those huge swings of glut and famine. Because if we make too much, the beer goes bad, and it gets thrown out. So when we make too much bourbon, it sits on grandpa’s shelf,” he mentioned.

FOX Enterprise correspondent Max Gorden joins ‘The Big Money Show’ to interrupt down the potential results of President Donald Trump’s proposed tariffs on European alcoholic drinks

Nevertheless, Schuhmacher identified that the beer business is going through its personal distinctive challenges resulting from tariffs. 

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Budweiser beer within the brewery part at an H-E-B grocery retailer in Austin, Texas. (Brandon Bell/Getty Pictures / Getty Pictures)

The extra severe concern, Schuhmacher mentioned, is the 25% tariff on all metal and aluminum imports, which took impact this week.

“We get almost all of our canned aluminum from outside the country,” he mentioned. “I know that the administration doesn’t want inflation and that is what will make beer prices go up immediately. A huge input cost for beer is aluminum.”

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Schuhmacher added that 75% of beer is offered in cans, and almost all new merchandise are packaged this fashion. He mentioned this has a higher influence on beer firms than it does on gentle drink firms.

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