Trump wine tariffs have importers, NJ stores seeking solutions
https://www.northjersey.com/story/entertainment/dining/2025/04/04/trump-wine-tariffs-nj-imports/82808070007/
"What tariffs mean for New Jersey wine stores and consumers

Your next drink could cost a whole lot more. The Trump administration announced unilateral tariffs on imports from almost every country and additional taxes on those from about 60.
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For consumers, the math is pretty simple, Barnes says: “A wine that is $20 will become $24.” There may be wiggle room from wine to wine, shop to shop, but expect a cost increase on all foreign beverages.

Now, the calculus he and other small wine shop owners need to do is whether customers will follow certain wines to these higher price points, or whether he’ll need to look for other, cheaper wines.

“I could probably find another wine at that price point, which may not be as interesting of a wine,” he says. “For the wine factories, the places that make millions and millions of liters of wine, that’s still going to be there. But to find a cooperative that may be smaller but still works with organic farmers and is able to produce wine at a reasonable cost, those are going to be much harder to find.”
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A reduction in imports on that wine will have ripple effects all the way from the consumer to the producer.

“At the end of the day, the people who are going to be hurt the most are not the South African government probably,” Barnes says. “It’s the third-generation wine family that is going to see a good proportion of their livelihood damaged. So there’s unfortunate human consequences to all of these things.”
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