Trump's Tariff on Maple Syrup: A Costly Mistake
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Quebec controls up to 92% of the entire world's maple syrup supply, runs it through a strategic reserve of 100+ million pounds, and manages the whole system through a producers' federation industry insiders literally call the "OPEC of syrup." Trump put a 25% tariff on it anyway. Then something almost nobody expected happened: American maple syrup producers — the exact people this tariff was supposedly protecting — started getting hurt by it too. Why: nearly all the specialized equipment used to make maple syrup anywhere in North America — vacuum systems, reverse-osmosis machines, evaporators — is manufactured in Quebec. Tax Canadian maple syrup, and you tax the machines American farmers need to make their own. Vermont, the biggest US maple state, produces only about 6% of North American demand. A Cornell researcher confirmed the tariff would likely raise prices regardless of whether the syrup came from Vermont or Quebec — because American maple syrup is routinely BLENDED with Canadian
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