Premier David Eby of the Canadian province of British Columbia announced countermeasures on 2February2025 to “stand up” for British Columbian workers and businesses after the United States announced incoming tariffs of 25% on incoming goods and 25% on Canadian energy.
As a first step the British Columbia Liquor Distribution Branch will immediately stop purchasing liquor from “red states” and remove the top selling “red state” brands from the shelves of public liquor stores”.
Premier Eby provided no definition of “red state” in his statement but traditionally such term means any state that awarded a majority of electoral votes to President Trump in the last United States Presidential election. States with significant wine production imported into British Columbia would be California, Washington and Oregon and all such states are “blue States” (Democratic).
The top five states importing into British Columbia are Washington ($9.8 billion), California ($3.2 billion), Illinois ($2.1 billion), Texas ($1.5 billion) and Oregon ($1.3 billion). Other than Texas all such states are blue.
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