Ontario to take away alcohol from the cabinets after Trump's tariffs have been introduced

The Prime Minister of Ontario, Doug Ford, speaks during a campaign stop at Walker Construction in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada, January 31, 2025.

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On Tuesday, Ontario will pull all American alcohol from its state-led spirits shelves to react to the 25% tariffs of US President Donald Trump for Canadian imports.

Outlets of the Liquor Control Board from Ontario will also take out products from the catalog, so that other retailers cannot order or replenish these articles, according to a Sunday declaration by Premier Doug Ford.

“Every year, LCBO sells American wine, beer, spirits and Seltzer worth almost 1 billion US dollars.” Said Ford. “There has never been a better time to make an amazing product in Ontario or Canada choose.”

Ford's announcement was made only a few hours after the Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau retaliation duties of 255 billion US dollars of the US goods.

The LCBO is one of the largest alcohol wholesalers and sold more than 1.1 billion liters of alcohol products in Ontario in 2023. According to the observatory of economic complexity, Canada primarily imports hardness from America with estimated sales of 320 million US dollars. According to the OEC Canada, the second main export destination for alcohol of the US US US exports for alcohol in October 2024 is with a trading value of 25.9 million dollars.

In an explanation presented at CNBC, the LCBO said that it would stop all sales of US alcohol products online and in the shops “indefinitely”, and added that it was the “importer of Record” for all American alcohol Ontario acts. LCBO currently lists more than 3,600 products from 35 US states, added the explanation.

The move follows the announcements of the retribution regulations of the Canadian prime ministers for the tariffs, including Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston, who heads Nova Scotia Liquor Corporation “immediately stop buying American alcohol from” Red States “and remove the best -selling” Redstate “brands from the shelves.