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Among the American businesses feeling the impact is Caledonia Spirits, a distiller based in Vermont, near the Canadian border.

On the other side, U.S. distillers say they will suffer if the EU goes ahead with its plan to impose a 50% tariff on American whiskey.

He added that tariffs on tequila and Canadian whiskey likely would result in reciprocal tariffs that harm American craft distillers, whose numbers have increased exponentially in recent decades, including in California.

The guild said it agreed with the SWA that "provenance and a sense of place is a critical element of whisky" and English whisky distillers' grain had to be sourced from the UK.

In many cases, like with the Grant family of distillers, the wealth is split across siblings and cousins.