Ottawa:
Several Canadian provinces, including NT Natario and Quebec, banned the sale of US alcohol on Tuesday, part of a wide national revenge against import tariffs imposed by US President Donald Trump.
“This is a huge hit for American manufacturers,” said NT Natario’s Premier DG Ford, the largest province of Canada.
Ford said stores operated by NT Natario’s publicly controlled liquor control board (LCBO) about one billion Canadian Dollars Lar (8 688 million) per year. Sells alcohol products.
The LCBO’s website was down on Tuesday, with a notice saying that the store was “removing US products in response to US tariffs on Canadian goods.”
In Quebec, the government said it ordered the provincial alcohol distributor to “stop supplying American alcoholic beverages” in stores, bars and restaurants.
Manitoba’s Premier WAB Kainev posted: “We are taking us alcohol with shelves.”
The British Colombian provincial government said its liquor distributor would stop buying American liquor from the “red states”, “who voted for Trump’s Republican Party.
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