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Imports Having Lousy Year

Just when we indicated that pricing hasn't hurt beer sales, here we eat our words with a report that imports posted another lackluster month, down -4.5% in April, according to figures from the Beer Institute. That brings import shipments to virtually flat for the year. April had even sell days with last year.More ominously, it continues a downward import trend which peaked in 2000 (see chart), and seems to indicate that the double digit gains of year's past are history.

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