Re: (American Booze ban) The irony eh :P

On 8/8/2026 9:21 AM, Julian wrote:
> On 08/08/2026 17:08, Tara wrote:
>> Trump really wants U.S. booze back on Canadian shelves. 18 months ago we
>> pulled American booze off our shelves in responce to 25% American 
>> tariffs on
>> Canadian goods.
>>
>> Now Trump is making it part of the 'deal' on trade and threatens 50% 
>> tariffs
>> on free trade goods tied to USMCA or as we call it in Canada CUSMA. A big
>> American demand in (non) negotiations is American booze back on our 
>> shelves.
>>
>> funny though,  how some things come back and bite you in the arse.
>>
>>
>>  From  CBC Aug. 8/26
>>
>> "U.S. booze might end up back on Canadian shelves, but have we lost 
>> the taste
>> for it?
>> Majority of Canadians say they won't buy American alcohol if it becomes
>> available again, recent poll shows
>>
>> Two signs reading, 'Buy Canadian instead', in front of rows of Jack 
>> Daniel's
>> whisky.
>> A sign at a Vancouver liqour store in February last year encourages 
>> customers
>> to consider purchasing Canadian alcohol. British Columbia and several 
>> other
>> provinces have since pulled top selling American products from liquor 
>> store
>> shelves in response to U.S. President Donald Trump's tariffs. (Ethan
>> Cairns/The Canadian Press)
>> Social Sharing
>>
>> Deb Anderson can't remember the last time she bought a product from 
>> the United
>> States.
>>
>> Like many Canadians, the 65 year old from Prospect, N.S., said she's been
>> alarmed by U.S. President Donald Trump's repeated threats against 
>> Canada — and
>> she's been boycotting American goods in protest.
>>
>> So when she read on Friday that Canada was prepared to lift a ban on 
>> American
>> alcohol sales as part of its trade negotiations with the Trump 
>> administration,
>> Anderson says she felt disappointed.
>>
>> "But just because it goes back on the shelves doesn't mean that sales are
>> going to go back to where they were. The damage has been done," she 
>> told CBC
>> in an interview.
>>
>> Anderson says the "constant badgering and unfair negotiation 
>> practices" from
>> the U.S. have "really give us a bad taste for all things American."
>>
>>   Anderson doesn't appear to be alone in her feelings: Sixty-nine per 
>> cent of
>> Canadians said they weren't likely to buy American alcohol if it goes 
>> back on
>> store shelves, according to a Nanos Research poll published last month.
>>
>> Support for a continued boycott of U.S. alcohol was highest in British
>> Columbia, where 80.9 per cent of respondents said they were unlikely or
>> somewhat unlikely to buy U.S. booze again if it's made available.
>>
>> That was followed by 74.7 per cent of people in Ontario and 73.9 per 
>> cent of
>> Quebecers who said the same, the poll found.
>>
>> With most Canadian provinces vowing to keep U.S. alcohol off store 
>> shelves in
>> response to President Donald Trump’s latest tariff threats, CBC’s Eli 
>> Glasner
>> asks: are the booze bans an effective pressure tactic or merely political
>> symbolism — and an inconvenience for consumers.
>> Steep decline in U.S. alcohol imports
>>
>> Industry sources with knowledge of Canada-U.S. trade negotiations told 
>> CBC
>> News that the Canadian government was prepared to lift bans on alcohol 
>> sales
>> as it negotiates possible concessions in exchange for U.S. tariff relief.
>>
>> Trump has threatened to impose 50 per cent tariffs on some Canadian 
>> goods on
>> Aug. 19 if Canada fails to lift some retaliatory trade measures 
>> against the
>> U.S., including the alcohol bans.
>>
>> Those bans date back to early last year, when several provinces 
>> removed U.S.
>> alcohol from the shelves at their respective liquor boards in response to
>> Trump slapping a 25-per-cent tariff on Canadian goods.
>>
>> Ivan Gedz, who owns the bar Union Local 613 in Ottawa, says his 
>> stockpile of
>> American booze ran out two months after U.S. supplies were taken off the
>> shelves at the Liquor Control Board of Ontario (LCBO) last year.
>>
>> But Gedz says customers at the bar, which had previously offered a 
>> wide range
>> of American spirits, didn't bat an eye at not having access to bourbon 
>> and
>> other alcohol made south of the border.
>>
>> Instead, the U.S. alcohol ban encouraged patrons to try booze they'd 
>> never had
>> before.
>>
>> "There's nothing I love more than giving someone an Indian whisky and 
>> they're
>> like, 'India? I didn't even know India made whisky,' " Gedz told CBC 
>> News in
>> an interview. "They're producing excellent stuff — it's just we don't 
>> get a
>> ton of it."
>> A person's hands lift bottles of whisky off a shelf.
>> A proposal to halt provincial bans on American booze was revealed 
>> Friday as
>> negotiators race to reach a deal before new U.S. tariffs take effect 
>> on Aug.
>> 19. However, a poll last month suggested 69 per cent of Canadians said 
>> they
>> weren't likely to buy U.S. alcohol even if it returns to shelves. (Ethan
>> Cairns/The Canadian Press)
>> Changing tastes?
>>
>> The need to seek out alternatives is something that was seen in other 
>> parts of
>> Canada, too.
>>
>> Quebec's liquor board, the Société des alcools du Québec (SAQ), said 
>> in its
>> 2026 annual report that "fans of U.S. wines have turned to 
>> counterparts from
>> other regions" amid the ban.
>>
>> "Canadian wines, including Quebec wines, have gained popularity and 
>> now rank
>> ahead of Australia's," the report said, adding that Austrian wines 
>> were also
>> becoming more popular in "a sign that customers are curious and open to
>> discovering new countries of origin."
>>
>> Nicole Raufeisen is director of operations at Grape Witches, a bar and 
>> wine
>> bottle shop in Toronto that continued to sell U.S. wines it already had
>> stocked when the ban came into effect.
>>
>> "We've slowly ticked away through those products. I think we're down 
>> to maybe
>> just one or two different wines," she told CBC in an interview on Friday.
>>
>> If the ban is lifted, Raufeisen says she expects customers will again 
>> reach
>> for wines they enjoy from the U.S., such as fuller-bodied reds from
>> California. "People will go back because those wines are good, that 
>> market
>> share is well-trodden, so to speak, and the visibility there is high."
>>
>> But she added that demand for American wines can also be attributed to 
>> trade
>> barriers between provinces.
>>
>> While nine provincial premiers announced last month that they would 
>> introduce
>> direct-to-consumer alcohol sales between provinces, Raufeisen says
>> restrictions on wholesale wine sales between provinces remain a major
>> challenge.
>>
>> "If there were no interprovincial barriers to the wholesale movement 
>> of wines,
>> then it's possible that no one would miss any of the American wines," she
>> said, noting that B.C. wines are comparable to those from California.
>>
>> Back in Ottawa, Gedz says Union Local 613 would probably bring U.S. 
>> booze back
>> if the ban is lifted as part of a wider trade agreement between the two
>> countries.
>>
>> But he says he doesn't expect American alcohol to be as popular as it 
>> once was
>> because many Canadians "have exposed themselves to products that they 
>> may not
>> have tried" without the ban in place."
>>
>> "I'm just hoping that those customers maintain their willingness for
>> experimentation," Gedz said. "And you know what? If we stick it to the
>> Americans for a little while longer, I'm cool with that."
> 
> They are desperate to sell it. The USA booze market is being
> decimated by a perfect storm of increasingly sober young, weed, 
> tirzepatides and semaglutides.
 >
That being said, Jack Daniel's is widely considered the most popular and 
best-selling American whiskey brand in the United States by retail 
dominance.

Having said that:

While Jim Beam leads in global volume, Jack Daniel's holds the sales 
crown within the U.S. market.

Just saying.