Doug Ford, Prime Minister of Ontario while the campaign is stopped at Walker Construction in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada, January 31, 2025.
Carlos Osorio Reuters
Ontario will withdraw all American alcohol from the government's wines from Tuesday in response to the American President Donald Trump A 25 % tariff for Canadian imports.
Ontario's alcohol control panel will also take US products from their catalog so that other retailers cannot request or re -store these elements, according to Sunday statement By Prime Minister Doug Ford.
Ford said: “Every year, LCBO sells nearly one billion dollars of American wine, beer, lives and arms. Not anymore,” said Ford. “There was no better time to choose a great product made by Ontario or Canadian.”
Ford's announcement came a few hours after the Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau The slapping of revenge definitions From 25 % compared to $ 155 billion in American goods.
LCBO is one of the largest wholesalers in alcohol, and selling More than 1.1 billion liters Of the alcohol products in Ontario in 2023, according to L. Economic Summary ObservatoryCanada primarily imports the solid wines of America with sales of an estimated $ 320 million. The second major export destination for the United States of alcoholic beverages as of October 2024 is Canada, with a commercial value of $ 25.9 million, according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.
In a statement submitted to CNBC, LCBO said it will stop all sales of alcohol products on the Internet and in stores “indefinitely”, adding that he is “importing registration” for all American alcohol to Ontario. The statement added that LCBO currently lists more than 3,600 products from 35 US states.
The move comes after my other age ads from revenge for the definitions, including Prime Minister Nova Tim Houston directing Nova Scotia Company to sell alcohol to remove all American alcohol from its shelves on Tuesday and British Prime Minister Colombia David Eibi directing BC alcohol distribution branch “to stop immediately buy American wines from” red cases “and remove” red “brands from shelves.
