America's struggling wine industry is getting crushed by global tariffs and Canada's retaliation to them [View all]

Source: NBC News

April 17, 2025, 5:00 AM EDT


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. The boycott started in Ontario, and every other province responded in kind. When Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew announced his territory would ban American wine and alcohol, he mocked Trump’s signing an executive order in a social media video.

“This order, it’s a wonderful order, it’s a beautiful order,” Kinew said sarcastically. “This order is pulling American booze off the liquor market shelves.” His staff, lined up behind him, applauded as he held up the order for all to see. It has become a point of national pride not to buy American. “Their people are now motivated” because of the tariffs, Kaiser said. The results have the potential to be catastrophic for the wine world in the United States.

“We understand the reasoning behind some of these tariffs,” said Mike Kaiser, the executive vice president and director of government affairs for Wine America, a group that advocates for wine industry policies in Washington, D.C. His industry has been “caught in the crossfire” of a trade war, and even if the tariffs were reversed tomorrow, he said, “I think the psychological damage with the consumer might be really hard to come back from, even if these disputes are ironed out.”

Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/american-wine-global-tariffs-canada-boycott-rcna201296

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