blake murphy wrote:
>o.k., that sorta makes sense. *but i doubt that, say, crystal palace vodka,
>has much of an overseas market.

But it competes in the liquor store against foreign products.

Incidentally, the producer of Crystal Palace vodka is Sazerac and they
have lots of brands and imports/exports. So they have a financial
interest in eliminating technical barriers to trade.

Consumers in America and elsewhere want to buy French brandy, Scottish
whisky, Italian Amaretto, and American bourbon. They may well want to
choose between a local liquor and a foreign (to them) one.


>maybe i'm just used to the u.s. tail wagging the world dog.

The interesting thing for me is that some people say metric units
would be too difficult in the shops. But liquor and wine has been
metric for decades. Nobody seems to worry. I think it shows that
there's a difference between what people think about change and how
they behave after change.