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The Trinidad and To­ba­go Cham­ber of In­dus­try and Com­merce is invit­ing busi­ness­es across the coun­try to weigh in on the im­pact of re­cent in­creas­es in al­co­hol du­ties an­nounced in the 2026 Bud­get.

In a state­ment, the Cham­ber said it is con­duct­ing a con­fi­den­tial sur­vey in col­lab­o­ra­tion with the Trinidad and To­ba­go Bev­er­age Al­co­hol Al­liance to as­sess the ef­fects of a 100 per cent in­crease in ex­cise and im­port du­ties un­der Le­gal No­tices 384 and 386 of 2025.

The Cham­ber is call­ing on man­u­fac­tur­ers, dis­trib­u­tors, re­tail­ers, ho­tels, bars, restau­rants, en­ter­tain­ment venues and small shops in­volved in the sale or ser­vice of al­co­holic bev­er­ages to par­tic­i­pate.