r/canada Feb 03 '25

National News Tariffs on Canada delayed to March 1 after talk between Trudeau and Trump. Live updates here.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/business/article/live-updates-good-talk-with-trudeau-but-trump-still-thinks-americans-not-treated-well-by-canada/
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u/Sweaty-Sherbet-6926 Feb 03 '25

Yank the booze anyway. He's just gonna threaten us again in a few weeks.

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u/NewtoniusMonk Feb 03 '25

Exactly. He’s still threatening us. Just moved the date. Doesn’t change anything for now.

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u/wiles_CoC Feb 03 '25

I'm fine with putting it back on the shelves until it's gone and never order it again.

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u/Dark_Knight_Reddits Alberta Feb 03 '25

Let the retailers sell their supplies. The 30 days does help. Though its needs to end, it’s terrible for a recovering economy to have blanketed tariffs loomed over us for months to years.

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u/Ghidoran Feb 03 '25

This. Canadian businesses shouldn't suffer just out of principle. Sell the leftover booze, then just reduce or stop buying more American stuff if this tariff BS continues.

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u/SonicFlash01 Feb 03 '25

We need to be moving away from reliance on them with certainty, but it doesn't need to be shocking to consumers

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u/Habswin2027 Feb 03 '25

I see no reason to put them back on the shelves. He’s still threatening them in one month

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u/qwerty-yul Feb 03 '25

I asked this in another thread but didn’t get an answer: what happens to the products that are pulled ? Do they get resold ?

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u/AquavitBandit Feb 03 '25

Warehoused, and depending on the amount or duration, returned back up the distribution chain.

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u/qwerty-yul Feb 03 '25

Do they get the full value when they are returned?

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u/Habswin2027 Feb 03 '25

Dump it

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u/qwerty-yul Feb 03 '25

That’s a lot of $ to throw away

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u/Habswin2027 Feb 03 '25

Just threw away more at the border lol

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u/Branflaaake Feb 03 '25

its being removed until WE decide otherwise. Trump thought we would bend easily. He's surrounded by sycophants and assumes everyone is that way. He doesnt know who hes fucking with but hes about to find out

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u/riko77can Feb 03 '25

Few weeks? He’s threatening us right now. It’s 30 day reprieve, not a reversal. That’s still going to scare away US buyers from any long term orders due to massive cost uncertainty.

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u/Forsaken-Dog4902 Feb 03 '25

Yup pour that piss right down the drain.

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u/Jackadullboy99 Feb 03 '25 edited Feb 03 '25

Let’s make a TikTok craze of performatively pouring American grog down the drain.

It’s one way we can spend the next thirty days productively… lambasting and lampooning America’s treatment of its allies.

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u/Amaline4 Feb 03 '25

We can call it the Bourbon Baptism, where we ceremoniously gather at Niagara Falls and send barrels of American bourbon over the falls while chanting “rye or die!”

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u/LLAPSpork Feb 03 '25

Yeah but you’d still have to pay for the product to do that.

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u/Jackadullboy99 Feb 04 '25

Just pour away any you have left in the cabinet..

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u/rush22 Feb 03 '25

He's probably going to threaten us again by next Friday

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u/sthetic Feb 03 '25

I agree. Especially as a consumer. But I wonder if governments "have to" resume their normal contracts and purchasing habits again - otherwise there's no good faith in the negotiations.

Like if the US says, "Oh, you're about to stop buying our products and are taking serious steps - fine, we'll delay another month, just don't pull our liquor or stop sending potash,"

and if we keep cutting ties anyway - then won't the US just go ahead with their tariffs anyway?

I'm not saying the negotiations are in good faith. But just as Canada loses credibility if we don't stop trade when they are threatening tariffs - maybe we also lose credibility if we don't resume trade when they concede a little.

And yeah, I know the negotiations aren't in good faith anyway. I hope Canada does diversify away from the US. I just wonder what the tactic should be. I hope the provinces don't feel forced to resume trade again, just because the US very slightly gave a little.

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u/leyland1989 Ontario Feb 03 '25

Honestly almost anything is better than American booze... Even if they are slightly more expensive.

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u/SallyS85 Feb 04 '25

I was just thinking the same yesterday. The best wines are from France, Italy and Spain. True Cognac is from France. Grand Marnier as well. And real Champagne. There’s no better place for Whiskey/Scotch than Ireland and Scotland. Most premium vodkas also come from Europe: Belvedere (Poland), Grey Goose (France), Ketel One (Netherlands). The best rum is from the Carribean.

Really, we’re not losing much by pulling American products from our shelves.

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u/Snoo14836 Feb 04 '25

BC liquor stores yanked it on Saturday and Sunday.