CCLive: Helping Cider in Covid Time w/ACA

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March 20, 202019m 17sbonus

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Hear what the ACA and the USA's regional associations are doing to help members while their businesses are shuttered during quarantine. Cider Chat Live: Helping Cider in Covid Time w/ACA Recorded March 19, 2020 with American Cider Association (ACA) Executive Director Michelle McGrath.

"If the airline industry is getting excise tax relief, then the beverage alcohol industry should also get relief."

Goals to Help Members:

Expanded Unemployment insurance
Suspension of Payroll Taxes
Federal Excise Tax Relief
no and low interest loan growth in the funding of the above programs
Industry Stabilization Funds
- cash infusions
Maintaining an open commercial border
- Suspension of beverage tariffs and their suppliers

Up to the end of April, the ACA encourages association members who were forced to layoff staff, to Michelle to have their former employees sign up for a free level 1 Certified Cider Professional exam so they can add to their resume during this down time.

Link here to the American Cider Association's Covid Resources For Cideries

New York Cider AssociationNews:

9am - Wednesday March 25, 2020 The NYCA Town Hall to address issues surrounding the Covid-19 epidemic
New York Cider Association elected new Executive Director is Scott Ramsey. He will be holding a Digital Town Hall meeting with New York Cider Association

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