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 ( orioler25@lemmy.ca ) 
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    5 days ago

    This is kind of funny to read after spending nearly 2 years listening to snowbirds talk about how hard they’re not gonna snowbird anymore now that the US is meaner to them. I wonder if the booze ban will be the real last straw.

  • Nik282000 ( nik282000@lemmy.ca ) 
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    4 days ago

    Fuckem. A bunch of boomers and genx that are spending a lifetime of Canadian income in the most backwards US state.

    Stop spending Canadian money in the US you selfish fucks

    • tooq ( tooq@piefed.ca ) OPEnglish
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      5 days ago

      If a Canadian is still choosing to vacation in the US, especially long-term, I’m not sure they fall under what I would call ‘decent’.

        • orioler25 ( orioler25@lemmy.ca ) 
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          5 days ago

          If that were the case, the fascism wouldn’t be as successful here as it is. Or did you forget that the people here were a month away from electing PP until Trump swung the election for anyone critical of him specifically?

            • orioler25 ( orioler25@lemmy.ca ) 
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              5 days ago

              Oh, so if it’s “everywhere,” that doesn’t indicate a fundamental sickness in Canadian culture if the people here didn’t view genocide rhetoric as a deal-breaker, they’re just doing what everyone else is doing. It’s worth noting that the admin that did win (and is wildly popular compared to previous admins) has also been eroding indigenous sovereignty rights, openly supported the invasion of Iran, and lifted environmental and agricultural industrial restrictions.

              What exactly is your issue with Americans, then?

    • orioler25 ( orioler25@lemmy.ca ) 
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      5 days 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.