After alcohol was excluded from a deal this week to drop interprovincial trade barriers, some in the booze industry say they're perplexed and disappointed — and that they've waited long enough for provinces to make the change.

Signed on Wednesday by the provinces, territories and federal government, the agreement promises to remove restrictions on the free movement of some goods across Canada.

However, food and alcohol were conspicuously left off the list — the latter industry having long advocated for the removal of the barriers, well before U.S. tariffs spurred a national campaign to make free trade between the provinces easier.

“I am hugely disappointed,” said Adin Wener, managing partner of Henderson Brewing Company, a brewery, taproom and bottle shop in Toronto. “We should

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