Following is a message from the Department of Finance Canada.

We are writing to inform you that the Order Amending the United States Surtax Remission Order (2025) (the “Remission Order”) entered into force on June 22, 2026. The full text of the Remission Order is attached and will be published in the July 1, 2026, edition of Part II of the Canada Gazette.

Amendments to the United States Surtax Remission Order (2025)

The Order has been amended in the following manner:

• Additional products have been added to schedules 2, 3, 4, and 4.1, further to an assessment of a fourth tranche of remission requests received by the Department of Finance.
• Horizontal relief, which had been set to expire on June 30, 2026, has been extended to June 30, 2027, for the following:
  • Aluminum and steel goods and motor vehicles used for public health, health care, public safety and national security purposes under Section 1 and 2;
  • Aluminum goods used for manufacturing, processing, food and beverage packaging or agricultural production under Section 3; and,
  • Aluminum and steel goods used for the manufacturing of motor vehicles, aerospace products, and their related parts under Section 3.1.
• Remission has been extended to a range of steel mill products, listed in Schedule 6, that have been determined not to be made in Canada.

For reference, the Remission Order is now structured as follows:

• Products listed in Schedules 1, 2, 5 and 6 and Section 4.3 are subject to broad remission for all importers, indefinitely from the time the tariffs came into effect.
• Products listed in Schedule 3 are subject to broad remission for all importers, from the time the tariffs came into effect until the date specified in column 3.
• Products listed in Schedule 4 are subject to remission by a specified importer listed in column 1 (according to business number) and subject to any other applicable condition listed in column 4, from entry into force of the tariffs until September 1, 2025.
• Products listed in Schedule 4.1 are subject to remission by a specified importer listed in column 1 (according to business number), during the period specified in column 4, and subject to any other applicable condition listed in column 5.

The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) will be administering claims for remission of surtaxes pursuant to the Remission Order. Further information will be published in due course in the CBSA’s Customs Notice, linked here. In the meantime, please refer to the attached document (“How to apply”) which includes all relevant special authorization codes required by CBSA.

If you have any questions regarding the process of submitting claims for remission of surtaxes, we invite you to contact the CBSA at 1-800-461-9999 or Contact border information services.

For questions regarding the Remission Order, we invite you to contact the Department of Finance Canada at remissions-remises@fin.gc.ca.

For more information on Canada’s tariff and remission policies, we also invite you to visit the Department’s new tariff website at: Canada’s tariff responses to the changing global trade landscape – Canada.ca.

Resource: Department of Finance Canada