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

On 08/08/2026 22:12, Dude wrote:
> 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.
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