One of the owners of Kentucky’s Brough Brothers Distillerty, Victor Yarbrough, has been receiving love message from Canadians amid the ongoing US-Canada price warfare. The Kentucky business was in the middle of agreements with the New Brunswick Liquor Corporation when the price war between the two nations flared up forcing them to press wait on their American reason. National liquor. including Kentucky whiskey, was one of the first items that were removed from the cabinets in American stores as Canada retaliated against the US price.
” You are heading for a full recession in the states with these moronic tariffs and talk of the 51st state bulls **t”, says one email. ” I’m just a producer here in Canada but yet I know this French and perhaps world boycott was past four years”.
” Kentucky’s concern is that people don’t realize that when you vote republican]you] find f**ked again”, one message said.
In an interview with Canada’s CBC News, Yarbrough said he loves Canada and has centuries of fond remembrances of vacationing in Canada. But then his box is full of expletives. ” Unfortunately I think from what I’ve seen — it’s not really about taxes, it’s more about the independence of Canada, I think is what’s really coming through in these letters”, said Yarbrough.
” These are really powerful texts that we get and, however … the bad suggestion for us is that, hey, we are the poor people here”, Yarbrough said. ” We’re really stuck in the middle”, he said. ” I think taxes aren’t fine for everyone”.
Kentucky exported more than$ 47 billion worth of goods last year, with Canada its largest customer, accounting for more than$ 9 billion of those sales. Bourbon is not its best trade but Kentucky is best known for this and it became a metaphorical destination for American retribution.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford who led Canada’s reprisal against the US price announced in March that whiskey will be the primary goal. ” We’re the largest seller of whiskey in the world, for Kentucky bourbon companies, they’re done, they’re gone”, Ford said a fortnight before.
