Trump Tariffs Have Made This the Worst Time for American Wine in Literally Decades
News Source : Jezebel
News Summary
- The U.S. wine industry in 2026 has people using words like “bloodbath” and “catastrophic.” There are many reasons for this, but if you want the most dramatic contributor to why, say, the nation of Canada consumed almost 80% less American wine last year that it did in 2024, you’d of course have Donald Trump’s capricious and illegal tariffs to thank.
- The American wine industry lost approximately $357 million in export revenue to Canada alone in 2025, or a 78% reduction from the amount of American wine that was exported to Canada in 2024.
Back at the end of the 2010s, as cracks first began to form in the facade of an American craft brewing industry that had been sailing merrily along for 15+ years of constant growth, you used to hear [+9794 chars]
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