As entrepreneurs, we're creative people. We're always thinking of new products to develop and offer our customers. Some products may take a bit longer to put on the market, because everything that we produce with maple is new. By the way, your colleague said earlier that he had never heard of the alcoholic product known as maple wine.
When we want to launch a new product on the market, it also takes some time to make people aware of the product. The excise tax must be paid even before we earn any revenue. This increases our costs and affects the company's cash flow, which also hampers development and the desire to create something new. It becomes a barrier.