No one is putting odds on which decision will be reached, but it seems logical that the first-sale doctrine should apply to both domestic and foreign items.

FORBES: Legality Of Selling Used Items

Sometimes, even menu items with a foreign provenance are Americanized.

WSJ: Brouhaha Over 'Beer Summit'

Beijing evidently took advantage of low prices to stockpile, thereby pumping up imports, a tactic it employed in October when enterprise managers and central technocrats went on foreign shopping sprees for, among other items, crude oil and copper.

FORBES: China's Abnormal Trade Numbers for November