Biden Assistant on Treasury Report Legacy: We’ve Got Work to Do

Dear Client:   Today’s Craft Brewers Conference General Session featured Tim Wu, Special Assistant to the President for Technology and Competition Policy, talking about the recently released report on “Competition in the Marks for Beer, Wine and Spirits.”  That report, released in February as response to Biden’s 2021 Executive Order on Competition, sided largely with the craft industry’s “worldview.” It basically invites further scrutiny of big-on-small-brewer deals; encourages the TTB to reduce burdens on small producers; and even calls the