More pain may be in store for European wine importers, as the White House considers raising levies from 25% to 100%
Harry Root’s business distributing imported wine from Europe was already reeling from a sales slump brought on by coronavirus lockdowns when he was hit with another gut-punch: a $25,000 tariff on a shipment of rose, “fun whites” and beaujolais wines at the Port of Charleston.
“We had gone two weeks with effectively zero revenue, yet still had to figure out how to make payroll and make that container payment as well,” said Mr. Root, whose business is also based in Charleston, S.C. “It really brought back into focus to us,...
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