Trade lawyers and snowbird group say Trump’s ban is absolute — and paying duty at the border won't get your bottle through.

Think you can still bring a bottle of your favourite Niagara red or Ontario-made whisky to your grandparents’ place in Florida?

Think again, according to trade lawyers and the Canadian Snowbird Association, who say there appears to be no personal exemption when it comes to Donald Trump’s import ban on a wide array of Canadian alcohol products.

That means you can no longer bring even a single bottle of Canadian-made beer, wine or spirits into the U.S. — whether you’re willing to pay duty on it or not, said international trade lawyer Barry Appleton.

“A ban is an absolute prohibition. A tariff is a price a person can pay, and a personal allowance can forgive a duty. Neither can make a prohibited good admissible,” said Appleton, co-director of the Center for International Law at New York Law School, and a fellow at the University of Waterloo’s Balsillie School of International Affairs.

  • orioler25@lemmy.ca
    13·
    24 hours ago

    Saying that it is safe to assume that affluent Canadians are decent people suggests little experience with affluent Canadians, or an affluent Canadian with no self-awareness.

    Funny to read this right after Thanksgiving, where I met no fewer than 6 snowbirds who thought Muslims and South Asians are one of Canada’s biggest problems right now; second to the US, of course.

    edit: Ugh, I just realized this is the same dick who said that people are weak for not fighting the state even though they moved to Australia and don’t intend to come help in that fight. They go on here to say that it is conservative to support immigration, and that they are against American immigration (apparently they’re special enough that it’s fine to emigrate) but are supposedly not a conservative.

    What a funny coincidence specifically in this context, starting to see a pattern here. This is a person who is mad that Americans make their own harmful values look bad, not someone who is angered by harmful values.

    • BCsven@lemmy.ca
      1·
      30 minutes ago

      What’s weird is my immigrant brown friend, votes against immigrant positive policy and for conservative policy because he thinks immigrants are the problem in Canada. YouTube algorithm has got him.

      • orioler25@lemmy.ca
        5·
        1 day ago

        lol. Literally, the discussion was about how the international student cap* wasn’t enough, and Palestinians shouldn’t get special treatment if they are “antisemitic,” or make fun of soldiers. I couldn’t imagine a better analogue.

        Fuck off. It’s good to be critical of the US, but if you’re going to use it to whitewash Canada, you’re a problem for all of us.