{"id":785785,"date":"2026-07-07T09:53:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T09:53:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/785785\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T09:53:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T09:53:16","slug":"proposed-republican-bill-plans-a-response-to-provincial-american-alcohol-bans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/785785\/","title":{"rendered":"Proposed Republican bill plans a response to provincial American alcohol bans"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Several Canadian provincial liquor boards stopped purchasing American alcohol last year in response to U.S. President Donald Trump\u2019s tariffs and threats of annexation.Laura Proctor\/The Canadian Press<\/p>\n

A Republican congresswoman for New York said she is introducing legislation to compel the United States Trade Representative to conduct an investigation into Canadian provinces that are not purchasing American alcohol.<\/p>\n

\u201cCanadian provinces cannot be allowed to hold American wineries, breweries and distilleries hostage and attempt to ransom them,\u201d Tenney said in a news release Monday.<\/p>\n

\u201cAmerican wineries, breweries, distilleries and other beverage producers deserve fair access to Canadian markets, not discriminatory treatment from one of our closest trading partners.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tenney said she would introduce the Combating Attacks on our National Alcoholic Drinks by Allies Act \u2013 or CANADA Act \u2013 in the U.S. House of Representatives on Monday to prompt an investigation under Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974.<\/p>\n

If that investigation found unfair trade practices, the United States could respond with tariffs or other import restrictions.<\/p>\n

Several Canadian provincial liquor boards stopped purchasing American alcohol last year in response to U.S. President Donald Trump\u2019s tariffs and threats of annexation.<\/p>\n

Opinion: No country for alcohol sales \u2013 but then Canada got lucky<\/a><\/p>\n

While Saskatchewan and Alberta have returned American booze to the shelves, major purchasing provinces like Ontario and Quebec have not resumed stocking U.S. alcohol.<\/p>\n

Ontario Premier Doug Ford told reporters in Washington last month he would welcome back American alcohol once the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement on trade is renewed.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just want to get this deal done,\u201d he said. \u201cI can assure you once that deal\u2019s done, I\u2019m going to be sitting down and bringing all the booze back on shelves in Ontario.\u201d<\/p>\n

The United States last week said it was not going to renew the continental trade pact, known in Canada as CUSMA, but the agreement will stay in place as negotiations continue.<\/p>\n

That triggered a rolling annual review process for up to a decade, at which point the agreement will expire if an extension isn\u2019t agreed upon.<\/p>\n

Canada and Mexico had both called for a 16-year extension.<\/p>\n

Canadians driven by anger over Trump\u2019s tariffs and \u201c51st state\u201d rhetoric supported the move by provinces to pull American liquor off the shelves as Ottawa navigated Trump\u2019s turbulent return to the White House last year. <\/p>\n

But the booze bans have become a major trade irritant in Washington. United States Trade Representative Jamieson Greer and other members of the Trump administration have pointed to the provincial alcohol bans, calling them unfair and unjustified.<\/p>\n

American alcohol industry and lobby groups have repeatedly called for a return to a normal trade relationships between the U.S. and Canada as the industry is rocked by the loss of Canadian customers. <\/p>\n

The Distilled Spirits Council of the United States has said retaliatory bans in Canada led to a 63 per cent decline in U.S. spirits exports to that market in 2025.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s long been talk about how the United States may respond to the provinces\u2019 alcohol actions, and ongoing complaints from members of the Trump administration that it has hindered negotiations.<\/p>\n

Tenney said the alcohol prohibitions are an \u201cactive impediment to a productive and smooth\u201d CUSMA renegotiation process.<\/p>\n

\u201cGiven that the Canadian provinces have refused to act in a constructive manner, I introduced the CANADA Act to ensure the United States takes the necessary steps to hold Canada accountable until the provinces decide to drop their unjustifiable import bans,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n

\u201cAmerica must always stand up for our producers, our workers and fair trade.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Open this photo in gallery: Several Canadian provincial liquor boards stopped purchasing American alcohol last year in response…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":785786,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[901,888,902,879,877,903,48,876,895,896,891,878,875,46,549,295,894,887,914,880,881,893,43,889,890,884,904,885,909,910,44,912,907,911,905,908,882,898,899,714,897,906,865,61,41,39,42,40,900,892,886,883,913],"class_list":["post-785785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-alberta","tag-arts-news","tag-bc","tag-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news-video","tag-british-columbia","tag-canada","tag-canada-news","tag-canada-sports","tag-canada-sports-news","tag-canada-trafficcanada-weather","tag-canadian-breaking-news","tag-canadian-news","tag-economy","tag-education","tag-environment","tag-federal-government","tag-foreign-news","tag-globe-and-mail","tag-globe-and-mail-breaking-news","tag-globe-and-mail-canada-news","tag-government","tag-headlines","tag-life-news","tag-lifestyle","tag-local-news","tag-manitoba","tag-national-news","tag-new-brunswick","tag-newfoundland-and-labrador","tag-news","tag-northwest-territories","tag-nova-scotia","tag-nunavut","tag-ontario","tag-pei","tag-photos","tag-political-news","tag-political-opinion","tag-politics","tag-politics-news","tag-quebec","tag-sports-news","tag-technology","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-travel","tag-trudeau","tag-us-news","tag-world-news","tag-yukon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=785785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785785\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/785786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=785785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=785785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=785785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}