I am guessing Canadian retailers mostly and wholesalers to some extent are caught holding the bag. Producers most likely got paid when delivered. Producers lost a market for future sales, however.
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Jinx!
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Ninjafication!
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Re-ninja’d!
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Yes. Inventories are rising at a pretty rapid clip now.
It is a price that was felt was needed to be paid. If the wine ages well and the US becomes reasonable again, it will eventually be sold.
I agree. Retailers don’t want to piss off their customers. If it is the free market operating, great. If the government is enforcing, less great, but there is the opportunity to vote the govt out, so not an unreasonable restriction of freedom, IMO.
It was unnecessary for the American wine to be removed. No one was buying it anyway. I think it should have been left on the shelves.
Really, the Ds can’t afford to lose on this position, so I suggest they propose 1 Billion % tariffs on smuggled fentanyl.
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Wait, is fentanyl legal now?
Also, if you are going to empty shelves, would be better, sales-wise, for the retailer to stock it with something else. Empty shelf is basically virtue-signaling.
Not sure how the Canadian-government-regulated liquor industry works. Can a retailer send back stock that is not selling or not being sold? If so, where then does that stock go? Back to the international distributor who then tries to sneak it back in to the USA without paying a tariff?
My understanding is that purchases by Canadian liquor authorities are primarily outright purchases. There is very little consignment purchasing.
As an aside, the Trump Administration has identified retail markups on liquor purchases as a trade barrier despite the fact that retail markups apply to domestic products also. Trump also views VATs as trade barriers despite the fact they apply to domestically-produced goods. Idiot.
So, taken off the shelves and put into a warehouse until such time they can sell them again or sell them elsewhere? Or just taking up space in each store’s back room?
I’m just wondering if someone’ foot is being shot by one’s own self.
They are being stored somewhere but I expect they will eventually be sold. The concern for American producers is that they have probably lost a market for future sales because of Trump rhetoric.
If it weren’t, that would be nuts.
Waiting for bc wines to be available in Ontario. It’s crazy that it hasn’t been in the past.
Imo once tastes have changed, there’ll be no going back. My spouse drinks American wine. Once they’ve decided on a Canadian wine, they’ll stick with it, they won’t go back to American brands even if they become available.
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Totally, and vice-versa. Our trade has to switch from north-south to east-west.
Don’t you guys have two actual physical lanes to go E-W? maybe 2 in each direction?