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Canadian snowbirds warned: that bottle of Ontario wine or whisky could be seized at the U.S. border (www.thestar.com)
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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.

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[-] orioler25@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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 2 points 1 week 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.

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