And squid and plywood and VCRs...

Canada has announced a proposed trade retaliation against the USA over what is being called the Byrd Amendment dispute which will add a 100% trade surcharge against imports of US good and it includes tariff item 2203.00.00 "beer made from malt". Interestingly, bad beer has a lower percentage of malt and some might conceivably have none. Read ales have, of course, lots.

There is an email address to make submissions. It would appear to me reasonable to have an exclusion for imports of under $200.00 CND because that would allow me to personally avoid the implications. I will try to think of better reasons later but that is it now. Have a look at this post to see what taxes are being paid already - and happily given the good things our tax dollars go to. I suspect all that will happen is that I will restrict my local purchasing as I am in this for the quality research. I encourage you all to lobby hard to ensure my needs are met by sending your submissions to: