CANADA STARTS TO DISMANTLE INTER-PROVINCIAL WINE TRADE BARRIERS
July 1st, 2016
Regulators from Canada’s three main wine-producing provinces have agreed to remove technical restrictions preventing their winemakers from selling wine to consumers across all these jurisdictions. Until now, red tape has prevented all but the largest winemakers from Québec, Ontario and British Columbia (BC) selling their products to consumers outside their own province.
Their provincial governments have promised to assist winemakers from the other two provinces to list their wines for sale via provincial monopoly alcohol distributors’ e-commerce sites.
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