Booze Exports

Jimmy Carter deregulated beer, and there has been follow-on deregulation lite of other spirits.  Hong Kong wine sales have skyrocketed after they deregulated wine and spirits trade.  The upswing in USA business could not have happened with Jimmy Carter's initiative.

American craft breweries, currently enjoying another boom in the United States, are also tapping into global consumers’ desire for unique beverages. In 2012, craft beer export volume increased by 72 percent valued at an estimated $49.1 million, especially to the European Union where the cachet of American craft beer is on the upswing.

Illustrating this growth is NYC-based Brooklyn Brewery, a notable leader in the sector. Not only is the company the largest exporter of American craft beer, with sales to 17 countries around the world, it’s now establishing a secondary production facility in Stockholm, Sweden, its second-largest market.

“Global demand for American craft beer is at an all-time high, as evidenced by small and independent brewers in the U.S. exporting their products to new markets around the world at a growing rate,” confirmed Bob Pease, chief operating officer for the Brewers Association (BA), in a recent public statement.

What might people who were replaced by robots do for a living?  How about make better beer?

But in the USA we have an extremely stupid requirement that all labels be approved by some panel.  Why?  I dunno.  To make work for people who would otherwise be productive?

MILWAUKEE -- The federal government shutdown could leave America's craft brewers with a serious hangover.
Stores will still offer plenty of suds. But the shutdown has closed an obscure agency that quietly approves new breweries, recipes and labels, which could create huge delays throughout the rapidly growing craft industry, whose customers expect a constant supply of inventive and seasonal beers.

The government ought to simply eliminate the programs completely, and don't look back.  These people provide no value, but they do inhibit small businesses from going into business.

And now comes Japan trying to build market in USA for sake.  How?  By negotiating a reduction of restrictions.  (Via googletranslate)

We aim to increase exports by obtaining the elimination of tariffs on Japanese sake in other countries. According to the Development Bank of Japan, domestic consumption of rice wine (sake) was 992,000 kg, liters of fiscal 2000, decreased approximately 40% and 589,000 kilometers, liters to 10 year. Such as the sake of the young people away due, from the brewing industry, to increase the export of Japanese sake, voice asking you encourage the elimination of tariffs for the sake in the TPP negotiations is increasing.

One way to save the brewers in Japan is to market to USA.  There is nothing to USA from enjoying an economic recovery very quickly, except that the solution is to get rid of the problem: government interference.

There is not a single entity on the commanding heights who is calling for a solution to our problems.

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