Wondering If Your Imports From The U.S. Will Attract Retaliatory Tariffs?
Published: agosto 14, 2020
The U.S. has once again levied import tariffs on Canadian aluminum and certain aluminum products, prompting the Canadian Government to begin drafting a countermeasures list set to take effect on Sept 16/2020.
List of Products being reviewed for Countermeasures
- Bicycles and other cycles
- Bicycle wheels
- Golf clubs, complete
- Articles for sports and general physical exercise (e.g., bats, hockey sticks, playground equipment)
- Refrigerators, household type, compression type
- Household washing machines, not including machines which both wash and dry, of a dry linen capacity not exceeding 10 kg, fully-automatic
- Monopods, bipods, tripods of aluminum
- Embossed aluminum cans for use in the packaging of beverages
- Metal furniture of a kind used in offices
- Aluminum ores and concentrates
- Slag, ash and residues, containing mainly aluminum
- Aluminum tube or pipe fittings
- Aluminum doors, windows and their frames and thresholds for doors
- Aluminum containers for compressed or liquefied gas
- Aluminum nails, tacks, staples (other than those of heading 83.05), screws, bolts, nuts, screw hooks, rivets, cotters, cotter-pins, washers and similar articles
For those who would like to review the Customs Notice and specific Classifications, please review the following link:
Government of Canada, 10 Aug. 2020
As often happens, not all products fit perfectly into a description or classification, if you are unsure of whether your imports may be affected, contact us at Ramsay Customs & Logistics for review and clarification.