Will U.S use Three-Tier as Bargaining Chip

While the alcohol beverage industry plays tug-of-war with three-tier issues in the courts and state legislatures, US trade negotiators may offer up the dismantling of state-based regulation of alcohol to other countries as a bargaining chip during World Trade Organization treaty negotiations. This according to a talk by Jim Grieshaber-Otto, a research analyst on treaties at Cedar Isle Research in Ontario. Canada's provinces, you may know, have very stringent regulations of their alcohol.Jim pointed out that there is an "underlying