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Canada's counter-tariffs on U.S. goods take effect at 12:01 a.m. on September 8, 2026. If you import from the United States, your exposure depends on the tariff item numbers you import under, not on what your products are called. The list covers 648 tariff items at 15, 25 or 50 percent. Enter your HS codes below to see which of yours are on it.
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Codes that do not match anything on the list are shown too, not hidden, so you know every code you entered was actually checked.
This tool covers the Canadian direction, meaning what Canada charges on goods arriving from the U.S. For the opposite direction, our Tariff Impact Checker for U.S. tariffs covers Section 301, 232 and 338 measures on goods entering the United States.
Not sure a code is classified correctly to begin with? Confirm it with our Canada tariff lookup before you rely on the result.
From 12:01 a.m. on September 8, 2026, Canada is applying counter-tariffs of 15, 25 or 50 percent to $27.6 billion in goods imported from the United States, covering 648 tariff items. Goods subject to 50 percent include steel and aluminum, furniture, and clothing and apparel. Goods at 25 percent include appliances and dairy.
Each product's rate matches the corresponding U.S. rate on the same goods. Canada drew the list from products already targeted by U.S. Section 338 and Section 232 tariffs.
If you import from the U.S., you have under two weeks to work out your exposure and act on it.
The sectors Canada named as the focus of the measures are steel, dairy, appliances, agricultural equipment, pulp and paper, and electronics. Those are the industries the government says were most affected by U.S. tariffs.
Treat the table above as orientation, not as the answer for your shipment. The measures are published at the tariff item level, and two products that sound similar can fall into different rate bands.
The tariff item number decides your rate, not the sector description. Finance Canada publishes the counter-tariffs as a schedule of tariff items to be read alongside the Schedule to Canada's Customs Tariff.
Where a product sits in a chapter that is only partly covered, the specific item governs. Chapter 72 and 73 goods, for example, are split between the 50 percent band and the 25 percent derivative band.
The measures were announced on August 25 and take effect on September 8, which leaves a narrow planning window.
U.S. tariffs of 50 percent took effect on $27.6 billion of Canadian goods.
Canada suspended trade negotiations and confirmed it would match the new U.S. tariffs dollar for dollar, rate for rate. Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne announced the counter-tariffs alongside a $7.5 billion support package.
Canada's counter-tariffs apply to goods imported from the U.S.
For measures announced after this page was written, see our trade and tariff news.
Two exemptions matter for the September 8 measures, and one widely held assumption about CUSMA is wrong.
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Canada's countermeasures do not apply to U.S. goods already in transit to Canada on the day the measures come into force. If a shipment left the U.S. before September 8, it should not be subject to the new surtax.
You will need to provide evidence of transit status, so keep your bills of lading, carrier documentation, and export records for anything moving in the first week of September. Shipment timing over that week is worth planning deliberately rather than leaving it to chance.
The Canada Border Services Agency publishes administrative details in its customs notices, where the documentary expectations are spelled out.
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Holding a valid CUSMA certificate of origin will not exempt your goods from counter-tariffs.
The counter-tariffs apply to U.S.-origin goods that meet Canada's country-of-origin rules for marking purposes. That is a different legal test from the CUSMA preferential origin test. A shipment can qualify for duty-free treatment under CUSMA and still be marked as a product of the U.S., which means the surtax applies.
If your team has been working under the assumption that CUSMA-qualifying goods are covered, that assumption needs to be checked against the marking rules before September 8. Our CUSMA certificate guide covers what the certificate does, and our explainer on CUSMA, USMCA, and NAFTA covers how the agreements fit together.
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The September 8 measures are additional. Canada's other existing counter-tariffs against the U.S., including those on autos, remain in place.
So if you already pay a counter-tariff on something you import, do not assume the new list replaces it. Check whether your goods now fall into a higher tariff band, as steel and aluminum have moved from 25 to 50 percent.
The surtax applies as a percentage of the value for duty of your goods, charged on top of any regular customs duty that already applies.
Getting your declared value right matters more than usual once a 50 percent surtax is in play, because an error worth a few hundred dollars in duty becomes worth thousands. Our guide on when value affects what you ship covers where importers commonly go wrong, and our breakdown of how duties and taxes are calculated on imports into Canada walks through the full sequence.
Sales tax sits on top of all of it. If you are unclear on which applies to your imports, see the difference between GST, HST and PST.
For a full landed cost including duty, surtax and taxes, use our duty and tax calculator.
Surtax amounts flow through your CBSA accounting in the normal way, meaning they appear on your statement of account and count against your financial security. If you are close to your posted security limit, a 50 percent surtax on a regular shipment can push you over it. Our CARM hub covers how to check your position, and CARM bonds covers how to increase it.
A BorderBuddy broker can screen your tariff items against the counter-tariff list and tell you where your real exposure sits.
Four things, and the classification review has the shortest runway.
Codes assigned years ago, often by someone no longer at the company, are the usual source of unexpected exposure. Two weeks is enough to screen a catalogue and correct errors. It is not enough after an entry has been filed.
Goods in transit on September 8 are exempt. Anything you can get moving before then avoids the surtax, and anything arriving after it does not.
A 15 percent surtax and a 50 percent surtax are different commercial problems. Work out which of your SKUs are affected and by how much before you commit to customer pricing.
Remission, duty drawback and duty deferral each work in different circumstances, and none of them are automatic.
If you are a smaller importer without a compliance team, our customs and trade compliance services cover screening, and we offer dedicated support for small- and medium-sized importers and e-commerce importers.
Only if the tariff item number they are classified under appears on Canada's counter-tariff list, and the goods are U.S. origin under Canada's marking rules. The list covers 648 tariff items and takes effect at 12:01 a.m. on September 8, 2026. Product names will not tell you which side of the line you fall on. Enter your HS codes above to check yours against the list.
Not yet. Canada announced them on August 25, 2026 and they apply from 12:01 a.m. on September 8, 2026. Canada's earlier counter-tariffs, including those on autos, are already in force and are not affected by the new measures.
Possibly, yes. A CUSMA certificate does not exempt goods from the counter-tariffs. The surtax applies to goods that are U.S. origin under Canada's country-of-origin rules for marking, which is a different legal test from the CUSMA preferential origin test. A shipment can qualify for duty-free treatment under CUSMA and still be marked a product of the U.S., which means the surtax applies.
By its tariff item number, not its name. Paste your Canadian HS codes into the checker at the top of this page and it tells you which of them appear on the counter-tariff list, which rate applies, and what the rate was before September 8.
The surtax is charged as a percentage of your value for duty, on top of any regular customs duty, with GST calculated on the duty-paid value. On $100,000 of appliances in the 25 percent band, that is $25,000 in surtax before GST. At 50 percent on the same value it is $50,000. Getting your declared value right matters more than usual once a 50 percent surtax is in play.
You do, if you are the importer of record. The surtax is collected by CBSA at the time of accounting and is not charged to the U.S. exporter. Your commercial terms with your supplier do not change who is liable to CBSA, though they may determine who absorbs the cost between you.
Goods in transit to Canada before the measures come into force are exempt. If a shipment left the U.S. before September 8 it should not attract the new surtax, but you need to be able to prove transit status. Keep bills of lading, carrier documentation and export records for anything moving in the first week of September.
The counter-tariffs apply based on the tariff item and the origin of the goods, so personal imports are not automatically excluded. If you are bringing something in for personal use, check the code before assuming it is exempt.