From tallboys to houses, latest aluminum and steel tariffs driving up costs

More pain is on tap for craft breweries, homebuilders and manufacturers as U.S. tariffs on imported aluminum — and the counter-levies Canada is lobbing back — drive up costs. Blair Berdusco, chair of the Canadian Craft Brewers Association, said it amounts to a double hit. Canadian aluminum being shipped to the United States to make cans is subject to a new 25 per cent tariff, and there’s another ding when the finished cans cross back over the 49th parallel. She said the biggest impact is being felt for the 473-millilitre tallboy cans that craft breweries most often use, since no…