Business is booming for Snowfox Vodka, a craft distiller based in Moncton, N.B., that sells its products in the Maritimes and in international markets like Latin America and Africa.
Interprovincial trade barriers have made expansion within Canada a daunting task, according to Snowfox Vodka president Issa Seck.
“There’s a lot of restrictions and you have to go through, like approvals and licensing,” Seck said in an interview.
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“There’s quotas as well and that can make it really hard for small businesses like ours to compete on a bigger scale.”
Now that New Brunswick has signed a trade agreement with Ontario, Seck says they want to expand into that province.
That, coupled with a seven per cent increase in domestic sales and increasing international sales, has fast-tracked its intention to undergo a $4.6-million expansion project.
He’s not the only one seeing a silver lining in the trade war.
Peter Burbridge of the North Brewing Company in Halifax said April was one of his busiest sales months on record in his 12 years in business.
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