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Trump’s Brewery Tariff Threat Has Craft Beermakers Sitting Out

  • Proposed levies on $300 billion up in the air as G-20 starts
  • Myrtle Beach brewpub won't place order until it has clarity
Beer is poured into a glass.

Beer is poured into a glass.

Photographer: KM4/iStockphoto

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Craft brewers, already feeling the hangover of a declining U.S. beer industry, are facing new troubles as their equipment gets wrapped up in Trump’s trade war.