They can. There's plenty of American whisky, wine and quite a lot of beer exported and sold abroad.
Alcoholic beverages
This was known as Prohibition. Sale of alcoholic beverages was prohibited.
Prohibition
The 18th amendment to the US Constitution was called prohibition, this is because the selling, drinking, and distributing alcoholic beverages was outlawed and no one was allowed to drink alcoholic beverages. However, the US government realized that they could not enforce a law of this magnitude and abolished it with the 21st amendment which stated that alcoholic beverages were allowed to be sold, drunk, and distributed throughout the US.
Prohibition - not allowing, forbiddingProhibition - to the 18th Amendment to the US Constitution, which prohibited the sale, transportation and importation of Alcoholic Beverages.
Tropical Fruits, Alcoholic beverages like rum, Sugar
The general term for smugglers of alcoholic beverages was rum runners. Lots of people did it since it was a very profitable business. Several great fortunes were founded by rum running.
The time in US history when the sale of alcoholic beverages was prohibited by federal law.
National Prohibition in the US forbade the production, importation, transportation and sale of alcoholic beverages. It did not prohibit the purchase or consumption of such beverages.
The Prohibition Party, which still exists in the US, calls for the prohibition of the sale of alcoholic beverages.
Because the government couldn't collect taxes on illegally produced alcoholic beverages.
The 18th Amendment to the US Constitution.