1. Effective , certain wood cabinets and vanities, and their subassemblies, imported into Canada are subject to a surtax in the amount of 25% of the value for duty in accordance with the Certain Wood Cabinet and Vanity Goods Surtax Order. The value for duty is determined in accordance with sections 47 to 55 of the Customs Act.
2. The Government of Canada is introducing this safeguard measure to address the injury to domestic producers caused by import increases of certain wood cabinets and vanity goods while the Canadian International Trade Tribunal (CITT) conducts an inquiry into whether final safeguard measures are warranted.
3. Importers must declare imported goods as subject to a safeguard when completing a Commercial Accounting Declaration (CAD) via the CARM Client Portal (CCP), Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) or Application Programming Interface (API) and declare a safeguard code. The code applicable to the wood cabinet and vanity safeguard will be available online .
