He stands next to half a scale of white oak barrels full of aging in Kentucky Bourbon, on the small Luisville floor, KY. In Victor Yarbro, it holds a laptop and begins to read his emails.
As the co -founder of Brough Brothers Distillery, he was clearly surprised by what he fell in his in the inpering box. As a polite businessman, some of them will not say loudly.
There are approximately 50 email messages in total, most of which are negative. Some of them are angry. Fraud.
“You are heading to get a full stagnation in the states with these delicious tariffs and talk about state nonsense 51,” says one of the email. “I am just a farmer here in Canada, but I even know this Canadian and perhaps a global boycott can last four years.”
Another reads: “Kentucky’s problem is that people do not realize that when you vote [you] Get f — D again, “which seems to be a kind of playing on the logo of US President Donald Trump to make America great again.
E -mails began shortly after Yarborough on both Canadian and American news, talking about how the customs tariff negatively affects his work, Brothers Distillery, the only Black Bourbon distillation factory in Kentucky.
“In the end, I think what I have seen – it is not related to tariffs, it’s a matter of sovereignty in Canada, I think it will really come in these emails,” said Yarbro.
The content is called horrific and painful, especially with years of great memories of vacations to Toronto before becoming a father.
“I love Canada,” he said.
After Trump imposed a tariff on some Canadian commodities, Canada retaliated with its own tariff package, and some provinces decided to withdraw American alcohol, including Kentucky Bourbon, off store shelves.
For Victor Rauru of Brothers Distillery in Louisville, the CEO between Canada and the United States affects the final result of the Kentuccy Bourbon maker. But he also makes his way to the in -income box in shocking ways.
This happened because Yarbrough was in the process of negotiating a deal with New Brunswick to expand his sales to Canada. The goal was to export approximately 10,000 bottles from Bourbon to boycott this year. Lordu says that the boycott stopped these negotiations due to the ongoing trade war.
“These are really strong email messages that we get, and unfortunately … the negative effects for us are that we, the bad guys here,” Yarbro told CBC News during an interview in his distillation.
“We are stuck in the middle,” he said. “I think the definitions are not good for anyone.”
Canada disturb the American whiskey
The alcohol industry in Kentucky was facing some problems before the official commercial war. In January, Brown Foreman-which produces brands known as Jacques Daniel, Woodford Reserve and Weld Forster-announced that she would cut her global worker with 12 percent, which includes about 200 jobs in one of its factories in Louisville that builds barrels.
Kentucky State Governor Andy Bishir says he is worried that there may be widespread work losses if there is no decision to dispose of customs tariffs.
“It is still early, but what we see is some layoffs in the Borbon industry, [in] “Each of the packing bottles and one of our greater distillation devices,” he said during an interview with CBC News at The State House in Frankfurt.
He added that they “also see some real anxiety among our farms about the amount of food we export all over the world.”
Kentuccy exported more than $ 47 billion of goods last year, as its largest customer is more than $ 9 billion in sales.
Although Bourbon is not the highest export – it is actually products related to the space industry – the soul is what the state is famous for. And it became a symbolic goal for Canadian revenge.
Doug Ford, an angry Prime Minister of Ontario, said when he announced his response to the US tariff: “Kentucky ruler does not touch Bourbon.
Ford told reporters in early March: “We are the largest buyers of Borbon in the world, for Kentucky Bourbon’s manufacturers, they have finished,” They have gone. ”
Beshear, a democratic, opposes the customs tariff, says this is not how he remembers his conversation with Ford.
“There was no muscles, we were talking about how the customs tariff would hurt both of our countries.”
Ontario withdraws 3,600 American products from LCBO shelves in response to Trump’s definitions, as Prime Minister Doug Ford encourages people to buy Canadian brands instead.
Bishir says that Canada’s response is understood, but it suggests that Kentucky is not fair because many of its political leaders are defending the Trump tariff policy.
“I get you will defend yourselves, and this is what we will do all, but be strategic,” he said.
“The presence of a tariff responds to all American products, as you know, do not differentiate again between those who talk to their finger about how the customs tariff is injured … and those who blindly support the president.”
“You must be patient”: Kentucky Trump is supportive
Despite the consequences of the Borbon industry, there is still a lot of support for Trump in Kentucky. He won the state in all three presidential races, and got nearly 65 percent of the vote in 2024, an increase of 62 percent in 2020 and 2016.
“I love everything he does,” said Ted Jackson, a businessman -based businessman who sells a cigar online and has a Web site selling Trump goods.
“I trust President Trump and the team. This idea of definitions is not something that he dreamed overnight, there was a lot of discussion, a lot of planning, and a lot of justification for that.”
Trump has long argued that his commercial agenda will help rebuild American manufacturing, and that companies will build new factories in the United States in order to avoid paying definitions. Although he admitted that there may be some “disturbances” of the cost of living.
Jackson said: “In the end everything will succeed. There may be some bruises along the way, but he is trying to do something … He is trying to fix something,” Jackson said.
“The Bourbon industry will not disappear in Kentucky, and people have to be patient, and in time it will achieve everything itself.”
Trump voters participated in the rural parts of the state similar positions. They are exhausted about the definitions, but they believed the president when he says in the long run it will help this economy.
“I think it’s excellent,” said Steve Stinite, a retired who spoke with CBC News at the Riferside Park in Meed Province.
Stinite says he stands alongside his vote, although he may be arrested in the trade war.
“The definitions that may affect me are any car purchases in the future. I hate the fact that it will cause this type of citizens to American citizens as well as Canadian citizens.”
Soo Troutman, retired waiter, says she is also ready to give Trump the benefit of doubt.
“If he believes he could help, more strength for him,” Trutman said. “But he needs to realize that he may harm some American people and other countries.”
She says she does not regret her voting on Trump as well, although she is less enthusiastic than some of Trump’s colleagues.
“When the elections came, it was the best of two,” she said.
“He said it would help the American people. Let’s hope to do.”