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Canadian craft brewers scramble for aluminum cans

July 31, 2018 4:14 PM EDT

By Marcy Nicholson

CALGARY (Reuters) - Canadian microbreweries are facing a shortage of cans and higher costs, forcing some to cut beer production after the country imposed retaliatory import duties on U.S. aluminum imports in the busy summer season.

Though Canada is the world's third biggest aluminum producer and cans are made in the country, beer makers also rely on the import of more than 2 billion cans annually, largely from the United States, Statistics Canada data shows.

So when Canada struck back at the United States' tariffs on aluminum imports on July 1, and included cans,... More