‘They’re on. They’re off. We can’t plan’ – bourbon makers dazed by Trump tariffs

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Brough Brothers Distillery is in the midst of a big expansion. A fifteen minutes’ drive from its small distillery in the West End neighborhood of Louisville, Kentucky, workers are toiling away on its new site, seven times the size of the old one, in the heart of Bourbon City. This has been a long time coming for Brough Brothers, which opened its first location in 2020 and had drawn up ambitious plans for international growth in 2025. Then Donald Trump returned to power. The Trump administration is conducting a sweeping overhaul of the US economy, using tariffs – levies on...