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Trade News
25% Provisional Safeguard Surtax on Wood Cabinets and Vanities Takes Effect (Aug 3, 2026)
The Minister of Finance and National Revenue, the Honourable François-Philippe Champagne, has announced a provisional safeguard measure in the form of a 25% surtax on imports of certain wood cabinets, vanities and their subassemblies, effective July 31, 2026. The measure… READ MORE
Trade Remedy Roundup: Provisional Duties on Building Cables, Wheat Gluten Review Concluded, and Three Deadlines in August (Aug 1, 2026)
The back half of July 2026 was unusually busy under Canada's Special Import Measures Act (SIMA). Provisional duties became payable on one new class of goods, two expiry proceedings advanced, two administrative reviews opened, and one long-standing finding was continued.… READ MORE
CBSA Operational Update: Driver Program Ends, Gordie Howe Port Code Live, and CARM Portal Gaps (Jul 30, 2026)
Several CBSA operational changes landed in the last week of July 2026. None is a policy shift, but each one changes a step in somebody's daily process — a program that is closing, a new port code that has to… READ MORE
U.S. Imposes 50% Section 338 Duties on Canadian Vehicles, Dairy and Alcohol — Plus New Section 301 Forced-Labour Tariffs (Jul 28, 2026)
Two distinct United States tariff actions landed in the week of July 20, 2026, and they work on entirely different legal footings, cover different goods, and carry different dates. On July 20, three presidential proclamations imposed an additional 50% ad… READ MORE
Steel Derivative Goods Surtax: CN 25-33 Updated Twice in a Week, Plus a Remission Order Discrepancy (Jul 22, 2026)
The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) revised Customs Notice 25-33: Steel Derivative Goods Surtax Order twice in the space of five days — first on July 17, 2026 and again on July 22, 2026. Separately, importers have flagged an apparent… READ MORE
Gordie Howe International Bridge Opens: A New Windsor–Detroit Commercial Crossing (Jul 16, 2026)
The Gordie Howe International Bridge is scheduled to open on July 27, 2026, adding a new publicly owned crossing between Windsor, Ontario and Detroit, Michigan. It spans the busiest commercial border corridor between Canada and the United States, where hundreds… READ MORE
Classification, Valuation and Origin: D-Memo Updates and Two Open Consultations (Jul 15, 2026)
The CBSA has been busy on the classification, valuation and origin side of its D-memoranda library. Two memoranda have been formally updated and now govern current practice, and two more are out for consultation — giving importers and their brokers… READ MORE
CBSA Trade Compliance Verification Priorities — July 2026 (Jul 11, 2026)
The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) has refreshed its Trade Compliance Verification Priorities list, the semi-annual roadmap of where the agency will focus its post-entry audits of tariff classification and customs valuation. The list was last updated July 7, 2026.… READ MORE
Latest NGBlogs
What is CARM? An Overview.
The CBSA Assessment and Revenue Management (CARM) project is a multi-year initiative that will transform the collection of duties and...
CARM Part 2: Client Portal Onboarding Guide
(This is part 2 of our discussion of the CBSA's new CARM program. To see previous entries in the series, start here.) Every company that...
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