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New Trump¹ administration tariffs³ are threatening to drive up prices for a wide variety of gourmet⁴ foods from Europe, including Italian cheeses, Spanish olive oil and French wine. But a Florida company has found a loophole in the wine tariff² that is big enough to drive a truck through. NPR's Scott Horsley reports.

SCOTT HORSLEY, BYLINE⁵: Florida Caribbean Distillers wasn't thinking about tariffs when it uncorked this plan. The 76-year-old company, best known until now for rum and sangria, was just trying to get a toehold in the burgeoning⁶ market for rose wine.

DAVE STEINER: Not only was rose outperforming in the wine category, but specifically, French rose was seeing a very good surge in popularity with American consumers.

HORSLEY: National sales vice⁷ president Dave Steiner says the company teamed up with a rose supplier that's well-connected with French vineyards in the Nimes region just outside Provence.

STEINER: It's the Southern Rhone Valley, which actually dates back in terms of wine-growing to the Roman Empire, so it really has about a 2,000-year run of wine-making history.

HORSLEY: Steiner's strategy is to put that old French wine into new American bottles. The company already had a state-of-the-art bottling plant halfway⁸ between Tampa and Orlando. It ships the wine across the Atlantic in tractor trailer-sized containers lined with a giant pouch⁹. Imagine the world's largest wine in a box.

STEINER: Depending on the size of the order, it could be a 20-foot or a 40-foot shipping¹⁰ container. Roughly, it's several thousand gallons at a time that we can bring in.

HORSLEY: And that's fortuitous because the Trump administration's new 25% wine tariff only applies to bottles up to two liters. Bulk wine, it turns out, is exempt¹¹, so Steiner's company suddenly has a 25% cost advantage over rival rose importers.

STEINER: It was nice timing¹² on the tariff's part. It certainly was a bit of a gift, but we'll take it.

HORSLEY: What Steiner's company is doing here is perfectly¹³ legal, but economist¹⁴ Mary Lovely of the Peterson Institute for International Economics says companies will go to unusual lengths to circumvent¹⁵ protectionist measures. The results are sometimes inefficient¹⁶ or even corrupt¹⁷.

MARY LOVELY: It does create this ecosystem¹⁸ which is not particularly healthy for economic activity.

HORSLEY: For now, Florida Caribbean Distillers is enjoying its unexpected windfall. The company's marketing¹⁹ its first 50,000 cases of wine under the brand name La Rosey using the hashtag #TrumpTariffFree. Steiner expects the wine to retail²⁰ for about $8.99 a bottle.

STEINER: I'd like to call it a very easy-drinking wine that can certainly claim to be with serious foodie roses but also has red berry fruits such as strawberry and raspberry, making it very approachable.

HORSLEY: Old World terroir with subtle notes of Florida's I-4 corridor and a smooth finish of tariff evasion²¹. The company plans to add a sauvignon blanc and a pinot noir next spring.

Scott Horsley, NPR News, Washington.

1 trump   

n.王牌，法宝；v.打出王牌，吹喇叭

参考例句：

• He was never able to trump up the courage to have a showdown.他始终鼓不起勇气摊牌。
• The coach saved his star player for a trump card.教练保留他的明星选手，作为他的王牌。

2 tariff   

n.关税，税率；(旅馆、饭店等)价目表，收费表

参考例句：

• There is a very high tariff on jewelry.宝石类的关税率很高。
• The government is going to lower the tariff on importing cars.政府打算降低进口汽车的关税。

3 tariffs   

关税制度； 关税( tariff的名词复数 )； 关税表； （旅馆或饭店等的）收费表； 量刑标准

参考例句：

• British industry was sheltered from foreign competition by protective tariffs. 保护性关税使英国工业免受国际竞争影响。
• The new tariffs have put a stranglehold on trade. 新的关税制对开展贸易极为不利。

4 gourmet   

n.食物品尝家；adj.出于美食家之手的

参考例句：

• What does a gourmet writer do? 美食评论家做什么？
• A gourmet like him always eats in expensive restaurants.像他这样的美食家总是到豪华的餐馆用餐。

5 byline   

n.署名；v.署名

参考例句：

• His byline was absent as well.他的署名也不见了。
• We wish to thank the author of this article which carries no byline.我们要感谢这篇文章的那位没有署名的作者。

6 burgeoning   

adj.迅速成长的，迅速发展的v.发芽，抽枝( burgeon的现在分词 )；迅速发展；发（芽），抽（枝）

参考例句：

• Our company's business is burgeoning now. 我们公司的业务现在发展很迅速。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• These efforts were insufficient to contain the burgeoning crisis. 这些努力不足以抑制迅速扩散的危机。 来自辞典例句

7 vice   

n.坏事；恶习；[pl.]台钳，老虎钳；adj.副的

参考例句：

• He guarded himself against vice.他避免染上坏习惯。
• They are sunk in the depth of vice.他们堕入了罪恶的深渊。

8 halfway   

adj.中途的，不彻底的，部分的；adv.半路地，在中途，在半途

参考例句：

• We had got only halfway when it began to get dark.走到半路，天就黑了。
• In study the worst danger is give up halfway.在学习上，最忌讳的是有始无终。

9 pouch   

n.小袋，小包，囊状袋；vt.装...入袋中，用袋运输；vi.用袋送信件

参考例句：

• He was going to make a tobacco pouch out of them. 他要用它们缝制一个烟草袋。
• The old man is always carrying a tobacco pouch with him.这老汉总是随身带着烟袋。

10 shipping   

n.船运（发货，运输，乘船）

参考例句：

• We struck a bargain with an American shipping firm.我们和一家美国船运公司谈成了一笔生意。
• There's a shipping charge of ￡5 added to the price.价格之外另加五英镑运输费。

11 exempt   

adj.免除的；v.使免除；n.免税者，被免除义务者

参考例句：

• These goods are exempt from customs duties.这些货物免征关税。
• He is exempt from punishment about this thing.关于此事对他已免于处分。

12 timing   

n.时间安排，时间选择

参考例句：

• The timing of the meeting is not convenient.会议的时间安排不合适。
• The timing of our statement is very opportune.我们发表声明选择的时机很恰当。

13 perfectly   

adv.完美地，无可非议地，彻底地

参考例句：

• The witnesses were each perfectly certain of what they said.证人们个个对自己所说的话十分肯定。
• Everything that we're doing is all perfectly above board.我们做的每件事情都是光明正大的。

14 economist   

n.经济学家，经济专家，节俭的人

参考例句：

• He cast a professional economist's eyes on the problem.他以经济学行家的眼光审视这个问题。
• He's an economist who thinks he knows all the answers.他是个经济学家，自以为什么都懂。

15 circumvent   

vt.环绕，包围；对…用计取胜，智胜

参考例句：

• Military planners tried to circumvent the treaty.军事策略家们企图绕开这一条约。
• Any action I took to circumvent his scheme was justified.我为斗赢他的如意算盘而采取的任何行动都是正当的。

16 inefficient   

adj.效率低的，无效的

参考例句：

• The inefficient operation cost the firm a lot of money.低效率的运作使该公司损失了许多钱。
• Their communication systems are inefficient in the extreme.他们的通讯系统效率非常差。

17 corrupt   

v.贿赂，收买；adj.腐败的，贪污的

参考例句：

• The newspaper alleged the mayor's corrupt practices.那家报纸断言市长有舞弊行为。
• This judge is corrupt.这个法官贪污。

18 ecosystem   

n.生态系统

参考例句：

• This destroyed the ecosystem of the island.这样破坏了岛上的生态系统。
• We all have an interest in maintaining the integrity of the ecosystem.维持生态系统的完整是我们共同的利益。

19 marketing   

n.行销，在市场的买卖，买东西

参考例句：

• They are developing marketing network.他们正在发展销售网络。
• He often goes marketing.他经常去市场做生意。

20 retail   

v./n.零售；adv.以零售价格

参考例句：

• In this shop they retail tobacco and sweets.这家铺子零售香烟和糖果。
• These shoes retail at 10 yuan a pair.这些鞋子零卖10元一双。

21 evasion   

n.逃避，偷漏(税)

参考例句：

• The movie star is in prison for tax evasion.那位影星因为逃税而坐牢。
• The act was passed as a safeguard against tax evasion.这项法案旨在防止逃税行为。