Kaine, Warner Call For End To Whiskey Tariff War
Michael Pope reports Here's something that might cause you to drink. The price of whiskey has gone up, thanks in part to the trade wars of the Trump era. Credit AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein Mac McCormack of McCormack's Big Whiskey Grill in Richmond says when the former president imposed his whiskey tariff, the price of one of his high-end bottles went from $2,000 to $2,500. "I don't know why Trump felt like putting tariffs on Scotch whiskeys and Irish whiskeys would make people drink more American whiskey because that's not really the way the world works. Making Scotch more expensive to the c...