Excluding Certain Canadian Alcoholic Beverages from Importation into the United States in Response to Continued Discrimination Against the Commerce of the United States with Respect to Alcoholic Beverages — humor rewrite

Voice: Humor 101 (humor) Original: Excluding Certain Canadian Alcoholic Beverages from Importation into the United States in Response to Continued Discrimination Against the Commerce of the United States with Respect to Alcoholic Beverages

Memorandum for the File, with courtesy

I had understood, in the ordinary way, that a bottle might still arrive if one paid the extra and waited. Proclamation 11046 of July 20, 2026, had already found as a fact that Canada was discriminating in fact against the commerce of the United States by banning the purchase, distribution, or retailing of U.S. alcoholic beverages while not similarly restricting such products from other countries, and had imposed additional ad valorem duties under section 338 of the Tariff Act of 1930, effective August 19, 2026.

Proclamation 11056 of August 18, 2026, then suspended those duties for three days, after Canada expressed a commitment to remove the discrimination. On August 21, 2026, the commitment did not hold. At 12:01 a.m. eastern time on August 22, 2026, the suspension lapsed and the duties returned to the ledger.

Senior executive branch officials later reported that Canadian authorities maintained the treatment and announced additional retaliation related to U.S. alcoholic beverages. For example, on August 27, 2026, the Government of Saskatchewan—which was one of two provinces that, at the signing of Proclamation 11046 and at the effective date of the duties, did not outright ban U.S. alcoholic beverages—announced an additional 50 percent levy on U.S. alcoholic beverages, effective September 8, 2026, expressly in response to those duties.

I therefore find, as the further proclamation of September 8, 2026, finds, that certain alcoholic beverages of Canada currently subject to those duties are to be excluded from importation into the United States, as further detailed in the Annex, and that section 338 and section 604 of the Trade Act of 1974 authorize embodying the same in the Harmonized Tariff Schedule.

By this I mean the crate, the stamp, and the hour. The Annex remains on the desk. I should be glad of a quiet return of the ordinary list, if it should come.

Respectfully, A clerk who still keeps the extra labels.