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Trump's massive new tariffs could have distressing consequences for your beer purchaseshttp://www.businessinsider.com/beer-price-after-trump-aluminum-tariff-2018-2
Trump announced new tariffs taxes on imports of 25% on foreign steel and 10% on aluminum.
While a new tax on importing aluminum would have widespread economic effects, one of the those consequences would likely include an increase in the cost of producing beer and in turn a bump in the end product price. The Beer Institute, a national trade association, blasted recommendations for new tariffs from the Commerce Department when they were released in February.
"If the president accepts any of the recommendations from the Commerce Department's report on aluminum imports, it will dramatically increase the cost of aluminum in the US and put at risk American jobs in the beer industry, as well other industries that are users of aluminum," the institute said in a statement.
The Commerce Department recommended a tariff of 7.7% on all aluminum imports, a 23.6% tariff on imports of the metal from 12 specific countries, or a quota (a limit on the amount of a good imported from a specific country) on all aluminum imports.
Zoonart
(11,878 posts)fleur-de-lisa
(14,628 posts)FSogol
(45,526 posts)Zoonart
(11,878 posts)NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)Only one way to enjoy a PBR. Out of the can surrounded by women jumping in mud. They ain't gunna like this.
pintobean
(18,101 posts)dweller
(23,661 posts)👍🏻
underpants
(182,878 posts)It's just so ironic don't you get it?
NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)I'm so disconnected from hipsters that I had no idea. I'm more connected to the mud-holes. The only thing I know about hipsters, as a general rule, is that they desperately care about appearance. Image it a part of every thought in every area of their life. So one group drinks the crap because they truly don't care about appearances. The other group drinks the garbage because they desperately want you to think they don't care about appearance.
To anyone offended by my gross generalizations, I will apologize at the time and place of my choosing.
underpants
(182,878 posts)Were getting a new place here because it's sooo popular with the hipsters in Brooklyn and Williamsburg NY.
Shuffleboard yep shuffleboard
fleur-de-lisa
(14,628 posts)PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,895 posts)Blue Owl
(50,498 posts)n/t
FSogol
(45,526 posts)underpants
(182,878 posts)I used to work for and industrial supply company. Breweries constantly replace fittings and the pipes.
FSogol
(45,526 posts)Large breweries use cans more than smaller breweries (with a few exceptions like Dale's Pale ale.)
Tiggeroshii
(11,088 posts)You dont fuck with peoples'beer, man...
Retrograde
(10,156 posts)but a tax based on sugar content is EVIL!