Tariff Check

In force since September 8, 2026 Rates checked September 10, 2026 against all 648 official items

What got tariffed, and what to buy instead

Canada counter tariffs on US-made goods, read straight off the official tariff-item list. Look up a product, see the rate, and find alternatives with an honest note on where each one is made.

01

The factory counts, not the logo

An American brand made in Mexico isn't tariffed. A Korean brand's washer made in Tennessee is. "Avoid American brands" costs you money both ways.

02

A sector isn't a product

Soap, toothpaste, deodorant and skincare were widely reported as covered. None are on the list, and neither are TVs, shampoo or complete dishwashers. See the gap

03

There are two sets of tariffs

US tariffs on Canadian goods going south, and Canada's on US goods coming north. This site covers the second, the one you pay at the till. US tariffs

Everything

39 categories · 98 origin claims, each sourced and dated

All 39 categories. 32 are on the official list; 7 are widely reported as covered and are not on it.

How to read the labels
Made in Canada
Manufactured in Canada.
Not US-made
Made outside the United States, so outside these tariffs, but not Canadian-made. Still a valid answer, just not the same answer.
Depends on the model
The brand builds the same product in more than one country, including the US. The unit in the box decides.
Origin unconfirmed
Where it is manufactured could not be established.
Confirmed by the maker
The manufacturer states it on their own site or in their own press material.
Reported by a third party
Someone credible says so, or the maker claims it in general terms without specifics.
Not verified
Recorded as an absence of evidence. Shown rather than hidden, because a directory that quietly guesses is worse than one that admits the gap.

Appliances

Fridges, dishwashers, laundry, ranges, heating and cooling.

Appliances

Fridges and freezers

A US-built fridge or freezer imported after September 8 carries a 25% surtax on top of its normal duty. One line is worth knowing about: display and beverage cabinets with built-in refrigeration sit at 50%, not 25%. A US-built wine fridge or beverage centre is taxed at double the rate of a US-built kitchen fridge.

Refrigerators, freezers and other refrigerating or freezing equipment, electric or other

25%some lines at 50%
Tariff items behind this rate (6)
  • 8418.10.2025%Combined refrigerator-freezers, fitted with separate external doors or drawers, or combinations thereof: Refrigerating-freezing type
  • 8418.21.0025%Refrigerators, household type: Compression-type
  • 8418.29.0025%Refrigerators, household type: Other
  • 8418.30.1025%Freezers of the chest type, not exceeding 800 litres capacity: Household type
  • 8418.40.1025%Freezers of the upright type, not exceeding 900 litres capacity: Blood bank type; Household type; With minimum temperature capability
  • 8418.50.1050%Other furniture (chests, cabinets, display counters, showcases and the like) for storage and display, incorporating refrigerating or freezing equipment

What people get wrong

Most fridges sold in Canada are already built in Mexico, South Korea or China, and those are unaffected. The US-built lines are the ones to check: GE Appliances builds in Louisville, Kentucky and Whirlpool builds in Amana, Iowa. The sticker on the door, not the badge on the front, decides.

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What to buy instead
  • Elmira Stove Works

    Northstar retro refrigerators

    Source: elmirastoveworks.com · checked 2026-08-25

    Made in CanadaConfirmed by the maker

    Where it is made: Arnprior, Ontario

    Listed among their product categories alongside ranges and wall ovens.

    Visit Elmira Stove Works

  • Liebherr

    Freestanding and integrated refrigeration

    Source: liebherr.com · checked 2026-08-25

    Not US-madeConfirmed by the maker

    Where it is made: Germany, Austria, Bulgaria, Malaysia or India

    Liebherr publishes its household-appliance factories: Ochsenhausen in Germany, Lienz in Austria, Marica in Bulgaria, Kluang in Malaysia and Aurangabad in India. There is no US plant on that list. Which of the five built a given Canadian-market unit is still not published, but none of them are American. Liebherr does manufacture in the United States, at Newport News, Virginia, and that is construction equipment from a different company division.

    Visit Liebherr

Appliances

Dishwashers

Buying a dishwasher: nothing. Complete household dishwashers, tariff item 8422.11, are not on the list. Repairing one: dishwasher parts are, at 25%. A US-made replacement door assembly or pump housing gets more expensive while the machine itself does not.

Dish washing machines; parts thereof

Parts only25% on replacement parts. The finished product is not on the list.
Tariff items behind this rate (3)
  • 8422.90.1025%Parts: Water containment chambers and other parts incorporating water containment chambers, for dish washing machines of the household type
  • 8422.90.2025%Parts: Door assemblies for dish washing machines of the household type
  • 8422.90.9025%Parts: Other

Why it is widely believed otherwise

Appliances were named as a targeted sector, and dishwashers are appliances. The tariff-item list picked up the parts line and left the finished machines off it.

What people get wrong

This is the entry that changed most when the official list was actually read: this site previously said US-built dishwashers were tariffed, on the strength of sector-level reporting. They are not. The origin research below still holds and is still worth reading, because being US-origin and being tariffed turn out to be two different questions.

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What to buy instead
  • Elmira Stove Works

    Dishwashers and custom dishwasher panels

    Source: elmirastoveworks.com · checked 2026-08-25

    Made in CanadaConfirmed by the maker

    Where it is made: Arnprior, Ontario

    Listed among their product categories alongside ranges and wall ovens.

    Visit Elmira Stove Works

  • Miele

    G-series dishwashers

    Source: miele.com · checked 2026-08-25

    Not US-madeConfirmed by the maker

    Where it is made: Germany, with entry-line units from Czech Republic and China

    Miele says its Bielefeld plant builds domestic dishwashers and coordinates dishwasher production at its plants in Czech Republic and China, where the entry line is made. Miele does now have a US factory, in Opelika, Alabama, but it builds ovens and range cookers, not dishwashers. See the ranges entry.

    Visit Miele

Not what you would guess
  • Bosch

    Dishwashers sold in North America

    Source: bsh-group.com · checked 2026-08-25

    Depends on the modelConfirmed by the maker

    Where it is made: New Bern, North Carolina

    BSH builds its North American dishwashers at a dedicated plant in New Bern, North Carolina, which it expanded and staffs with over 1,900 people. So a German-badged Bosch dishwasher is very often a US-origin good. It is still not tariffed, because finished dishwashers are not on the list and only parts are. Here as the clearest illustration on the site that US-origin and tariffed are separate questions, and that guessing either one from the badge fails.

    Visit Bosch

Appliances

Washing machines and dryers

US-built washers and dryers pick up a 25% surtax. Unlike dishwashers, the finished machines really are on the list, washers and dryers both.

Household- or laundry-type washing machines; drying machines

25%
Tariff items behind this rate (5)
  • 8450.11.1025%Machines, each of a dry linen capacity not exceeding 10 kg: Fully-automatic machines: Household type
  • 8450.11.9025%Machines, each of a dry linen capacity not exceeding 10 kg: Fully-automatic machines: Other
  • 8450.20.0025%Machines, each of a dry linen capacity exceeding 10 kg
  • 8451.21.0025%Drying machines: Each of a dry linen capacity not exceeding 10 kg
  • 8451.29.0025%Drying machines: Other

What people get wrong

There is no Canadian-made household washing machine, and this directory is not going to invent one. The realistic play is picking a unit that was not built in the United States, and two of the brands people assume are Korean now build washers in the American south.

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What to buy instead
  • Miele

    W1 washers and T1 dryers

    Source: miele.com · checked 2026-08-25

    Not US-madeConfirmed by the maker

    Where it is made: Germany, with tumble dryers from Czech Republic

    Guetersloh is Miele's stated competence centre for laundry care and builds the front-load washers; its Unicov plant in Czech Republic builds tumble dryers. Miele's US factory in Opelika, Alabama builds cooking appliances only.

    Visit Miele

  • Blomberg

    Compact washers and heat-pump dryers

    Source: arcelikglobal.com · checked 2026-08-25

    Not US-madeConfirmed by the maker

    Where it is made: Turkey, with some Beko Europe production in Poland, Slovakia, Romania and Italy

    Made by Arcelik, whose own locations page lists production facilities country by country and shows none in the United States - the sole American entity there is a sales office. Turkish plants are the general pattern for compact laundry, and Arcelik also runs laundry plants in Poland, Slovakia and Romania. The plant per model is not published, so treat the country as a range rather than an answer.

    Visit Blomberg

Not what you would guess
  • LG

    Some washing machines

    Source: allamericanmade.com · checked 2026-08-25

    Depends on the modelReported by a third party

    Where it is made: Clarksville, Tennessee, alongside Korea, Vietnam and Mexico

    LG opened a Tennessee washer plant in 2019 and passed a million units within a year. Some LG washers sold here are US-origin and some are not. This is a per-model question, not a brand-level one.

    Visit LG

  • Samsung

    Some washing machines

    Source: digitaltrends.com · checked 2026-08-25

    Depends on the modelReported by a third party

    Where it is made: Newberry, South Carolina, alongside Korea and Vietnam

    Samsung began building washers in Newberry, South Carolina in 2018, its first US home appliance plant. Same caveat as LG: check the unit, not the brand.

    Visit Samsung

Appliances

Ranges, stoves and cooktops

US-built cooking appliances pick up a 25% surtax. The scope is broad: gas and electric, built-in and freestanding, and small countertop cookers such as bread makers and rice cookers are on the list too.

Stoves, ranges, grates and cookers of iron or steel; electric ovens, cooking stoves and ranges

25%
Tariff items behind this rate (6)
  • 8516.60.2025%Other ovens; cookers, cooking plates, boiling rings, grillers and roasters: Ovens, cooking stoves and ranges
  • 8516.60.1025%Bread makers; Indoor smokeless barbecues; Rice cookers
  • 8516.60.9025%Other ovens; cookers, cooking plates, boiling rings, grillers and roasters: Other
  • 7321.11.1025%Cooking appliances and plate warmers: For gas fuel or for both gas and other fuels: Non-portable stoves or ranges
  • 7321.11.9025%Cooking appliances and plate warmers: For gas fuel or for both gas and other fuels: Other
  • 7321.19.1025%Cooking appliances and plate warmers: Other, including appliances for solid fuel: Non-portable stoves or ranges

What people get wrong

Cooking is one of the few consumer appliance categories with a Canadian manufacturer still operating.

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What to buy instead
  • Elmira Stove Works

    Northstar and Heritage ranges, wall ovens, cooktops

    Source: elmirastoveworks.com · checked 2026-08-25

    Made in CanadaConfirmed by the maker

    Where it is made: Arnprior, Ontario

    Says "Made in Canada" on its own site, and is reported to be the only remaining Canadian stove manufacturer. Premium and retro-styled, so compare on price before assuming it is a straight swap.

    Visit Elmira Stove Works

  • Bertazzoni

    Professional and Master series ranges

    Source: ca.bertazzoni.com · checked 2026-08-25

    Not US-madeConfirmed by the maker

    Where it is made: Guastalla, Italy

    Bertazzoni says on its own site that production is at its factories in Italy, with the home plant at Guastalla, and it operates no US factory. This row covers the ranges. Bertazzoni also badges refrigerators and dishwashers, and where those are built was not checked here.

    Visit Bertazzoni

Not what you would guess
  • GE Appliances

    Ranges built at Appliance Park

    Source: allamericanmade.com · checked 2026-08-25

    Depends on the modelReported by a third party

    Where it is made: Louisville, Kentucky

    Owned by Haier of China, but a large share of production is American. Ownership and origin point in opposite directions here, and the tariff follows origin.

    Visit GE Appliances

  • Miele

    30-inch ovens and range cookers for North America

    Source: miele.com · checked 2026-08-25

    Depends on the modelConfirmed by the maker

    Where it is made: Opelika, Alabama

    Miele's own factory page says the Opelika plant produces appliances for the North American market, and that these include the 30-inch ovens and range cookers. Miele also builds ovens at Oelde in Germany, so origin depends on the unit in the box. This is the Bosch-in-New-Bern pattern again: a German premium brand with an American factory, and the tariff follows the factory. Miele dishwashers and laundry are unaffected, because Opelika builds cooking appliances only.

    Visit Miele

Appliances

Small kitchen appliances

Almost nothing on the counter, and two things you would not have picked. The countertop appliances people replace most often are not on the list at all: microwaves, coffee and tea makers, toasters, kettles, and the whole blender, mixer, food processor and juicer family. Their spare parts are not on it either. What was taken is anything that cooks by heating an oven cavity - bread makers, rice cookers, indoor grills, and countertop ovens generally, which is where an air fryer sits, because customs rulings on both sides of the border treat an air-fryer oven as an oven. Those are 25%. The second catch is a residual line, "Other appliances: Other", the basket the tariff schedule uses for motor-driven household appliances that fit nowhere else. Kitchen waste disposers sit in it. So does the ultrasonic humidifier, which the list names outright. The garburator under the sink is surtaxed; the blender above it is not.

Electro-mechanical domestic appliances with self-contained electric motor; other electro-thermic appliances of a kind used for domestic purposes

25%on some lines
Tariff items behind this rate (4)
  • 8516.60.1025%Other ovens; cookers, cooking plates, boiling rings, grillers and roasters: Bread makers; Indoor smokeless barbecues; Rice cookers
  • 8516.60.9025%Other ovens; cookers, cooking plates, boiling rings, grillers and roasters: Other
  • 8509.80.1025%Other appliances: Ultrasonic vaporizers
  • 8509.80.9025%Other appliances: Other

Why it is widely believed otherwise

Ranges and ovens are on the list at 25% and were reported that way, and a bread maker is legally the same kind of thing as a range - both are cookers in tariff item 8516.60. The heading those cookers live in, 8516, also contains the kettle, the toaster and the coffee maker, so "kitchen appliances are tariffed" reads as true of the whole heading. It is true of one subheading out of thirteen. The rest of 8516 was left alone, and so was the microwave, which is not a cooker in tariff terms at all.

What people get wrong

This is the category where the Canadian answer barely exists. Small appliances are light, cheap and made in enormous runs, which is the opposite of the profile that keeps manufacturing close to the market, and the Canadian brands here are brands rather than factories. Salton is the clearest case, and worth reading closely: it is Canadian-owned, it says so prominently, and on the same page it says its manufacturing is carried out abroad. Canadian-owned and Canadian-made are different claims, and only one of them has anything to do with a tariff. The good news is that it matters less here than anywhere else on this site - most of what is in this category was never taken, so there is no surtax to route around.

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What to buy instead
  • Technivorm Moccamaster

    Drip coffee brewers

    Source: us.moccamaster.com · checked 2026-08-26

    Not US-madeConfirmed by the maker

    Where it is made: Amerongen, Netherlands

    Technivorm says on its own site that every Moccamaster is assembled and inspected by hand at its factory in Amerongen, and names no other plant. Dutch-made rather than Canadian, and listed here because coffee makers are not on the tariff list either - so this is a straightforward alternative and not a way to dodge a surtax that does not exist.

    Visit Technivorm Moccamaster

  • Salton

    Kettles, toasters, blenders, coffee makers and air fryers

    Source: salton.com · checked 2026-08-26

    Origin unconfirmedReported by a third party

    Where it is made: Not stated - manufactured outside Canada

    Included because it is the brand most often named when people ask for a Canadian small appliance, and because its own page is unusually honest: "we are proud to be owned 100% by Canadians", and in the next breath, "like most small kitchen appliance companies, our manufacturing is carried out abroad". Abroad is not the same as not-American, and the page does not name a country, so origin here is recorded as unknown rather than guessed. Salton air fryers are the one part of the range that touches a tariff line at all.

    Visit Salton

Not what you would guess
  • InSinkErator

    Garburators and instant hot water dispensers

    Source: insinkerator.com · checked 2026-08-26

    Depends on the modelReported by a third party

    Where it is made: Racine, Wisconsin

    The one small appliance in an ordinary kitchen that is squarely surtaxed, and it is under the sink rather than on the counter. InSinkErator makes most of the garbage disposers sold in North America. Its own site says the induction-motor units are "invented, designed, and assembled in the U.S.A." and that the company has been headquartered in Racine for over 85 years, but it does not name the plant on that page, so the Racine location rests on secondary reporting and this row is marked down accordingly. Now owned by Whirlpool. If you are replacing a garburator after September 8, this is the row that costs money.

    Visit InSinkErator

  • KitchenAid

    Stand mixers

    Source: kitchenaid.co.th · checked 2026-08-26

    Depends on the modelReported by a third party

    Where it is made: Greenville, Ohio

    The inversion. The most conspicuously American appliance on a Canadian counter is built in Ohio and is not on the tariff list, because stand mixers are motor-driven food mixers in tariff item 8509.40 and that line was not taken. KitchenAid says on its own site that Greenville is "the proud home of the KitchenAid Stand Mixer since 1941", which ties the product to the town but stops short of stating current production, and the factory tour it describes is closed. Trade reporting says every KitchenAid stand mixer in the world is built there. That is enough for reported and not enough for verified, and it does not change the answer either way: buying one costs no more after September 8.

    Visit KitchenAid

Appliances

Air conditioners and heat pumps

US-built air conditioning and heat pump equipment carries the lowest of the three bands, 15%. One line breaks the pattern: machines that do not incorporate a refrigerating unit, tariff item 8415.83, sit at 25% instead. In practice that is roughly the difference between a heat pump and a plain air handler.

Air conditioning machines, comprising a motor-driven fan and elements for changing the temperature and humidity

15%some lines 25%
Tariff items behind this rate (5)
  • 8415.10.0015%Of a kind designed to be fixed to a window, wall, ceiling or floor, self-contained or "split-system"
  • 8415.81.1015%Reversible heat pumps: single packaged or split-system not exceeding 15,8 kW; water source, vertical, horizontal and console types not exceeding 34,8 kW
  • 8415.82.1015%Domestic heat pumps and air conditioners, ductless split-systems; portable type not exceeding 25 kg; truck heater/air conditioners
  • 8415.90.3015%Parts: Chassis, chassis bases or outer cabinets
  • 8415.83.0025%Other: Not incorporating a refrigerating unit

What people get wrong

The big US HVAC names run substantial American production, so this is a category where the naive heuristic is roughly right for once. Japanese ductless equipment is the usual alternative.

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What to buy instead
  • Napoleon

    Heating and cooling equipment

    Source: madeinca.ca · checked 2026-08-25

    Made in CanadaReported by a third party

    Where it is made: Barrie, Ontario

    Canadian manufacturer based in Barrie, best known for grills and fireplaces, and also selling HVAC. Their own site blocked automated checking, so this rests on secondary sourcing. Confirm the specific product line with the dealer.

    Visit Napoleon

  • Mitsubishi Electric

    Ductless mini-split heat pumps

    No source on file · last looked at 2026-08-25

    Not US-madeNot verified

    Where it is made: Mexico, Thailand, Japan and China

    Re-checked and still unconfirmed, but the picture is clearer. Ductless for North America is sold through METUS, a 50/50 Mitsubishi Electric and Trane joint venture based in Georgia, which is a distributor and not a factory. The units come from plants in Mexico, Thailand, Japan and China. The maker publishes no per-model breakdown, which is why this stays unconfirmed rather than being upgraded. Mitsubishi Electric has announced a US plant at Maysville, Kentucky, but it makes compressors rather than finished units and production is targeted for October 2027. Ask the dealer for the origin marking.

    Visit Mitsubishi Electric

Electronics

Phones, networking gear and screens.

Electronics

Smartphones

Smartphones sit in the top 50% band, on a tariff item that names them explicitly.

Telephone sets, including smartphones and other telephones for cellular networks

50%
Tariff item behind this rate (1)
  • 8517.13.0050%Telephone sets, including smartphones and other telephones for cellular networks or for other wireless networks: Smartphones

What people get wrong

This is the clearest case on the site where a frightening headline rate should not change what you buy. Essentially no smartphone sold in Canada is US-origin: iPhones are assembled in China and India, Samsung in Vietnam, Korea and India, Google Pixel in Vietnam and India. Apple and Google are American companies making non-American goods, and the surtax follows the factory, not the head office.

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What to buy instead
  • Apple, Samsung, Google and most others

    Mainstream smartphones

    No source on file · last looked at 2026-08-25

    Not US-madeNot verified

    Where it is made: China, India, Vietnam, South Korea

    Listed as context rather than a recommendation. No individual model origin was verified, and phone assembly moves between countries constantly. If it matters to you, the origin marking on the box is the answer.

Electronics

Routers, switches and networking gear

Networking equipment sits in the top 50% band, which is the largest realistic electronics exposure for households and small businesses.

Machines for the reception, conversion and transmission of voice, images or other data, including switching and routing apparatus

50%
Tariff item behind this rate (1)
  • 8517.62.0050%Machines for the reception, conversion and transmission or regeneration of voice, images or other data, including switching and routing apparatus

What people get wrong

Enterprise networking has more US production than consumer gear does, so business buyers are more exposed than home users. There is no Canadian consumer router manufacturer.

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What to buy instead
  • MikroTik

    Routers and switches

    Source: servethehome.com · checked 2026-08-25

    Not US-madeReported by a third party

    Where it is made: Latvia

    Latvian company, popular with technical users, with a steep learning curve. ServeTheHome visited the Riga offices and a Latvian contract manufacturing line building MikroTik products. MikroTik publishes no plant list of its own, so this is a third-party account rather than the maker's statement, and it does not establish that every line is built there. Nobody claims US production.

    Visit MikroTik

  • TP-Link

    Home routers and mesh systems

    Source: tp-link.com · checked 2026-08-25

    Not US-madeReported by a third party

    Where it is made: Vietnam and China

    TP-Link states it builds routers in its own facility in Vietnam. Texas sued in February 2026 alleging the Vietnamese sites do final assembly only, with effectively all components arriving from China. Marked reported rather than verified for that reason: the maker's own origin claim is under active legal challenge. Both accounts still put production outside the United States, which is the only question these tariffs ask. TP-Link also faces separate US security scrutiny, which is a different question again and worth your own reading before buying.

    Visit TP-Link

Electronics

Laptops and computers, and why they are not tariffed

Nothing, and the completeness of that is the point. Heading 84.71 is automatic data processing machines - laptops, desktops, tablets, servers, keyboards, mice and storage drives - and it does not appear anywhere in the 648 items. Neither does 84.73, which is parts and accessories for those machines. Neither does 84.43, which is printers and multifunction devices. Neither does 85.04, which is where power supplies and laptop chargers sit. Neither does 85.42, semiconductors. A US-assembled laptop, its charger, its dock, its replacement battery and the printer next to it are all outside this measure. Then set that against the entry on this site for monitors. A computer monitor without a television tuner is item 8528.59.90 and it is in the top band at 50%. So the machine is untaxed and the screen you plug into it is surtaxed at fifty percent - and if that screen happens to contain a tuner it becomes a television at 8528.72, which is not on the list either. Three things on one desk, bought in one transaction, and the tariff treats them three different ways for reasons that have nothing to do with what they are for.

Automatic data processing machines and units thereof; parts and accessories; printers; power supplies; semiconductors

Not on the listThese goods do not appear on the official tariff-item list.

Why it is widely believed otherwise

Electronics was named as a targeted sector in the announcement, and a laptop is the most obvious electronic thing most people own. At least one published buyer guide told readers to buy laptops before September 8 to get ahead of the surtax. There is no surtax on laptops to get ahead of. What the list actually took out of consumer electronics is narrow and specific: smartphones at 8517.13.00, monitors at 8528.59.90, and game consoles at 9504.50.00. It left the computer, its parts, its charger, its printer and the chips inside all of them alone.

What people get wrong

There is no Canadian laptop manufacturer to point at, and this entry does not pretend otherwise. That matters less here than it would anywhere else on this site, because the tariff question has already been answered: none of these goods carry the surtax regardless of where they were assembled, so origin does not change what you pay. It is also worth knowing, as background rather than as a checked claim, that consumer laptop assembly is concentrated in Asia and Mexico rather than the United States - so the sector-level worry about laptops was likely misplaced twice over. The part of that this site can stand behind is the first part: the goods are not on the list. The one place origin still bites in this aisle is the monitor, which is on the list at 50% - see the monitors entry.

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No alternative is listed here yet. Nothing could be verified well enough to recommend, and a wrong answer would be worse than no answer.

Electronics

Monitors, and why TVs are not here

Computer monitors that do not include a TV tuner are in the top 50% band. Televisions are not on the list at all - tariff item 8528.72, reception apparatus for television, does not appear anywhere in it. Parts of television receivers and monitors are listed, at 25%.

Monitors not incorporating television reception apparatus; parts of television receivers

50%monitors, 25% parts
Tariff items behind this rate (3)
  • 8528.59.9050%Other monitors: Other: Other
  • 8529.90.3125%The following parts of television receivers (including video monitors and video projectors): video intermediate (IF) amplifying and detecting systems and similar
  • 8529.90.9025%Parts suitable for use solely or principally with the apparatus of headings 85,24 to 85,28: Other: Other

What people get wrong

This entry was renamed after the official list was read. It previously covered "TVs and monitors" at a soft 25-50%, on the strength of reporting that named electronics as a targeted sector. Only the monitor line is actually there. The distinction is worth keeping rather than deleting, because "are my TVs about to cost more" is one of the questions people arrive with, and the answer is no. Almost no televisions are manufactured in the United States in any case; North American TV assembly is concentrated in Mexico.

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What to buy instead
  • LG, Samsung, TCL, Hisense

    Televisions

    No source on file · last looked at 2026-08-25

    Not US-madeNot verified

    Where it is made: Mexico, South Korea, China

    Context, not a recommendation. Finished TVs sold in Canada are overwhelmingly not US-origin, and are not on the tariff list either way.

Electronics

Video game consoles, and why toys are not here

Video game consoles are in the top 50% band, on a tariff item that names them explicitly. Toys are not on the list at all - heading 9503, which covers toys of every kind, appears nowhere in the 648 items. Two aisles of the same shop, opposite answers.

Video game consoles and machines

50%
Tariff item behind this rate (1)
  • 9504.50.0050%Video game consoles and machines, other than those of subheading 9504,30

What people get wrong

This is the smartphone story a second time: an alarming headline rate on a category where essentially nothing sold in Canada is US-origin. Consoles are assembled by contract manufacturers in China and Vietnam, with some Japanese production, and no console is assembled in the United States. The 50% is real, and it should still not change which console you buy.

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  • Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo

    Home and handheld consoles

    No source on file · last looked at 2026-08-26

    Not US-madeNot verified

    Where it is made: China, Vietnam and Japan

    Listed as context rather than a recommendation, on the same footing as the smartphones entry. Console assembly has been moving between China and Vietnam for several years and no manufacturer publishes a per-unit origin, so nothing here is verified at the model level. None of the three assembles in the United States. If it matters to you, the origin marking on the box is the answer.

Beauty & personal care

Skincare, makeup, hair, fragrance and everyday bathroom supplies.

Beauty & personal care

Skincare and moisturizers

Nothing. Skincare is not on the list. Heading 3304 does appear, but only three of its lines: lip make-up, eye make-up, and manicure or pedicure preparations. The lines covering creams, serums, moisturizers, cleansers, sunscreen and face powder - 3304.91 and 3304.99 - are not among the 648 tariff items.

Beauty or make-up preparations and preparations for the care of the skin

Not on the listThese goods do not appear on the official tariff-item list.

Why it is widely believed otherwise

Beauty and personal care were widely named as a targeted sector, and heading 3304 is titled "preparations for the care of the skin", which reads as though it covers everything under it. The list takes three subheadings from it and leaves the skincare lines alone.

What people get wrong

The Canadian manufacturers below stay in this entry, just not on a tariff pretext. Beauty has more Canadian manufacturing than appliances or electronics, so these are real answers rather than consolation prizes - they were good answers before these tariffs and are unaffected by them.

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  • Graydon Skincare

    Serums, moisturizers, cleansers

    Source: graydonskincare.com · checked 2026-08-25

    Made in CanadaConfirmed by the maker

    Where it is made: Toronto and the Golden Horseshoe, Ontario

    Carries "Made in Canada" in its own site branding, with lab and packaging around the Golden Horseshoe, and is listed by Support Ontario Made as a Toronto manufacturer.

    Visit Graydon Skincare

  • ATTITUDE

    Face and body skincare

    Source: ca.attitudeliving.com · checked 2026-08-25

    Made in CanadaConfirmed by the maker

    Where it is made: Montreal, Quebec

    Publishes a page about its own 150,000 sq ft factory outside Montreal and states production happens in-house. One of the best-documented Canadian manufacturing claims in this directory.

    Visit ATTITUDE

Not what you would guess
  • The Ordinary / DECIEM

    Skincare

    Source: elcompanies.com · checked 2026-08-25

    Not US-madeReported by a third party

    Where it is made: Toronto, Ontario. Owned by Estee Lauder of the United States

    Here as the reverse of the usual warning. DECIEM is Toronto-based with five in-house labs there, and was fully acquired by Estee Lauder in 2024. American ownership, Canadian production. Boycotting by brand nationality would wrongly flag it - and in this category there is no surtax to avoid in the first place.

    Visit The Ordinary / DECIEM

Beauty & personal care

Makeup and cosmetics

US-made lipstick, eye makeup and nail products sit in the top 50% band. The scope is narrower than the word "makeup" suggests: only those three lines are listed. Foundation, powder, blush and setting products fall under 3304.91 and 3304.99, which are not on the list.

Lip make-up, eye make-up, and manicure or pedicure preparations

50%
Tariff items behind this rate (3)
  • 3304.10.0050%Lip make-up preparations
  • 3304.20.0050%Eye make-up preparations
  • 3304.30.0050%Manicure or pedicure preparations

What people get wrong

Indie beauty brands very often use contract manufacturers, and plenty of Canadian-founded labels are produced in the United States or China. A Canadian founder is not a Canadian factory, and most brands do not publish who makes their products. This category has the weakest origin sourcing on the site, and it is shown rather than hidden.

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  • Cheekbone Beauty

    Lip, eye and face cosmetics

    Source: cheekbonebeauty.com · checked 2026-08-25

    Origin unconfirmedNot verified

    Where it is made: Company based in Niagara, Ontario. Manufacturing location not published

    Indigenous-owned and Canadian-headquartered. Their site publishes a post describing one product, an illuminating primer, as made in Canada, but does not state a manufacturing location for the range. Listed as Canadian-owned, not Canadian-made, because that is all that could be established.

    Visit Cheekbone Beauty

  • Pure Anada

    Mineral makeup, lipstick, mascara and natural cosmetics

    Source: pureanada.com · checked 2026-08-26

    Depends on the modelConfirmed by the maker

    Where it is made: Manitoba - except nail polish, which the company states is made in the USA, and pencils, made in Italy

    The clearest manufacturing statement of any cosmetics brand on this site, and the most useful footnote on the whole site. Pure Anada says on its own site that, unlike most brands that rely on third-party manufacturers, it produces everything in its own certified lab and facilities in Manitoba - and then adds, in the same breath, that the only exceptions are nail polish, made in the USA, and pencils, made in Italy. Read that against the tariff list and it becomes the neatest illustration of what this site is for. Makeup is item 3304.10.00 at 50% and nail polish is item 3304.30.00, also at 50%, and both are on the list. A Pure Anada lipstick is made in Manitoba, so it is Canadian-origin and the surtax never touches it. A Pure Anada nail polish, from the same Canadian company, off the same website, is made in the United States and is exactly the kind of good the surtax is aimed at. Same brand, same order, opposite answers - and the company told you which was which before anyone asked. Marked mixed rather than made in Canada for that reason: the origin here is a property of the bottle, not the label on the site.

    Visit Pure Anada

Beauty & personal care

Hair products, but not shampoo

One line from heading 3305 is on the list, "Other", at 50%. That catches styling products, treatments, masks and leave-in products. Shampoo has its own tariff item, 3305.10, and it is not on the list. Neither are permanent waving or straightening preparations (3305.20) or hair lacquers (3305.30).

Preparations for use on the hair: Other

50%
Tariff item behind this rate (1)
  • 3305.90.0050%Preparations for use on the hair: Other

What people get wrong

This category was called "Shampoo, conditioner and hair products" until the official list was read, which is an awkward name for a category whose one certainty is that shampoo is not covered. Conditioner is unsettled: it is not separately named in the schedule, so which side of the line it falls on depends on how the importer classifies it. The Canadian manufacturers below produce a full hair range domestically, so the practical answer does not change either way.

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  • ATTITUDE

    Shampoo, conditioner, dry shampoo

    Source: ca.attitudeliving.com · checked 2026-08-25

    Made in CanadaConfirmed by the maker

    Where it is made: Montreal, Quebec

    In-house production at its own Montreal factory.

    Visit ATTITUDE

  • Green Beaver

    Shampoo, conditioner, body and hair care

    Source: greenbeaver.com · checked 2026-08-25

    Made in CanadaReported by a third party

    Where it is made: Hawkesbury, Ontario

    Describes itself as a Canadian manufacturer but does not publish a plant address on its site. The Hawkesbury, Ontario location comes from secondary sourcing.

    Visit Green Beaver

  • Rocky Mountain Soap Company

    Shampoo, conditioner and hair bars

    Source: rockymountainsoap.com · checked 2026-08-25

    Made in CanadaReported by a third party

    Where it is made: Canmore, Alberta

    States "Made in the Canadian Rockies" on its own site. The specific Canmore, Alberta location comes from secondary sourcing rather than the site itself.

    Visit Rocky Mountain Soap Company

Beauty & personal care

Perfume and fragrance

US-made perfume sits in the top 50% band. The whole heading is listed with no subheading carve-outs, which makes this the cleanest beauty entry on the site.

Perfumes and toilet waters

50%
Tariff item behind this rate (1)
  • 3303.00.0050%Perfumes and toilet waters

What people get wrong

Fine fragrance is disproportionately compounded and bottled in France regardless of which company owns the brand, so real exposure here is smaller than a 50% headline suggests. No Canadian fragrance manufacturer could be verified for this list, and that is still true after a second search on 26 August 2026. What that search did turn up is worth knowing about, because it is a structural fact about this industry rather than a gap in the research. Fragrance separates the two things this site normally treats as one: composing a perfume and manufacturing it are routinely different companies in different countries. A house can be entirely Quebecois in ownership, staff and creative direction and still have its juice compounded and bottled by a contract laboratory somewhere else, and almost none of them publish which. So the single Canadian row below is recorded as unconfirmed rather than upgraded on the strength of the founder's address, and that is the state of this category rather than a placeholder. If you make perfume in Canada and say so publicly, this entry wants the row.

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  • Monsillage

    Eau de parfum, composed by an independent Quebec perfumer

    Source: monsillage.com · checked 2026-08-26

    Origin unconfirmedNot verified

    Where it is made: Not published. The perfumer is based in Quebec and the house sells from Montreal

    Included because a reader looking for a Canadian alternative to a US fragrance should at least be pointed at one that exists, and because being honest about what is not known is more useful than an empty list. Monsillage is a small independent house whose perfumer is Quebecoise and which sells in Canadian dollars from Montreal. What its own site does not say, anywhere this search could find, is where the juice is actually made. That matters more in fragrance than almost any other category on this site: composing a perfume and manufacturing it are routinely different companies in different countries, and a house being Quebec-based tells you nothing about the second. Recorded as unconfirmed for that reason, not as a criticism of the house.

    Visit Monsillage

Beauty & personal care

Soap and body wash

Nothing. Chapter 34, which covers soap and organic surface-active preparations, does not appear on the list at all. Not one of the 648 tariff items is in chapter 34.

Soap and organic surface-active preparations for toilet use

Not on the listThese goods do not appear on the official tariff-item list.

Why it is widely believed otherwise

Personal care was named as a targeted sector, and soap is personal care. The tariff-item list does not reach it.

What people get wrong

The brands below stay because small-batch soap is one of the easiest things to buy Canadian-made - the manufacturing is the business rather than an outsourced step. That was true before these tariffs and is unaffected by them.

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Canadian-made anyway
  • Rocky Mountain Soap Company

    Bar soap, body wash, bath products

    Source: rockymountainsoap.com · checked 2026-08-25

    Made in CanadaReported by a third party

    Where it is made: Canmore, Alberta

    Handmade, and reported to produce over 350 products from Canmore. Their site says "Made in the Canadian Rockies".

    Visit Rocky Mountain Soap Company

  • ATTITUDE

    Body wash and hand soap

    Source: ca.attitudeliving.com · checked 2026-08-25

    Made in CanadaConfirmed by the maker

    Where it is made: Montreal, Quebec

    In-house production at its own Montreal factory.

    Visit ATTITUDE

  • Green Beaver

    Plant-based castile soap

    Source: greenbeaver.com · checked 2026-08-25

    Made in CanadaReported by a third party

    Where it is made: Hawkesbury, Ontario

    Self-described Canadian manufacturer. Plant address not published on their site.

    Visit Green Beaver

Beauty & personal care

Deodorant

Nothing. Heading 3307, which contains personal deodorants and antiperspirants at 3307.20, does not appear on the list.

Personal deodorants and antiperspirants

Not on the listThese goods do not appear on the official tariff-item list.

Why it is widely believed otherwise

The same pattern as soap and toothpaste: the sector was named in the announcement, the tariff items were not.

What people get wrong

The mass-market deodorant aisle is dominated by two American multinationals, so switching still changes where your money goes. It does not change what you pay in surtax, because there is none on this category.

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Canadian-made anyway
  • Green Beaver

    Natural deodorant

    Source: greenbeaver.com · checked 2026-08-25

    Made in CanadaReported by a third party

    Where it is made: Hawkesbury, Ontario

    Self-described Canadian manufacturer. Plant address not published on their site.

    Visit Green Beaver

  • Rocky Mountain Soap Company

    Natural deodorant

    Source: rockymountainsoap.com · checked 2026-08-25

    Made in CanadaReported by a third party

    Where it is made: Canmore, Alberta

    Part of their body care range, produced with the rest of the line.

    Visit Rocky Mountain Soap Company

  • ATTITUDE

    Deodorant

    Source: ca.attitudeliving.com · checked 2026-08-25

    Made in CanadaConfirmed by the maker

    Where it is made: Montreal, Quebec

    In-house production at its own Montreal factory.

    Visit ATTITUDE

Beauty & personal care

Toothpaste and oral care

Nothing. Heading 3306, preparations for oral or dental hygiene, is not on the list. Neither is heading 9603, which covers toothbrushes - chapter 96 does not appear at all.

Preparations for oral or dental hygiene

Not on the listThese goods do not appear on the official tariff-item list.

Why it is widely believed otherwise

Toothpaste turned up in a great deal of "what will cost more" coverage. It is the clearest case on this site of sector-level description outrunning the tariff-item list.

What people get wrong

As with deodorant, the shelf is mostly two American multinationals, and buying Canadian here is a choice about where your money goes rather than a way to avoid a surtax.

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Canadian-made anyway
  • Green Beaver

    Fluoride-free toothpaste and oral care

    Source: greenbeaver.com · checked 2026-08-25

    Made in CanadaReported by a third party

    Where it is made: Hawkesbury, Ontario

    Oral care is one of their published product categories. Self-described Canadian manufacturer.

    Visit Green Beaver

Beauty & personal care

Toilet paper, tissue and paper towel

Two different rates in one aisle, and the official list settles exactly where the line falls. Toilet paper, facial tissue and paper towel are 25%. Tablecloths, serviettes and everything else in the heading are 50%.

Toilet paper and similar paper, cellulose wadding or webs of cellulose fibres, of a kind used for household or sanitary purposes

25% / 50%
Tariff items behind this rate (4)
  • 4818.10.0025%Toilet paper
  • 4818.20.0025%Handkerchiefs, cleansing or facial tissues and towels
  • 4818.30.0050%Tablecloths and serviettes
  • 4818.90.0050%Other

What people get wrong

Tissue is bulky and cheap relative to its volume, so it is normally made close to where it is sold. Canada has large domestic producers, which makes this one of the easier switches on the list.

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  • Cascades

    Fluff and Tuff bathroom tissue and towel

    Source: cascades.com · checked 2026-08-25

    Made in CanadaReported by a third party

    Where it is made: Quebec-headquartered, with mills across North America

    A major Canadian tissue producer that also operates mills in the United States, so individual products can be either. Their about page does not publish plant locations per product, so check the package.

    Visit Cascades

Home & kitchen

Furniture, mattresses, rugs and cookware.

Home & kitchen

Furniture, sofas and chairs

Furniture is the most finely split category on this site, and the split follows construction rather than price or size. An upholstered sofa or armchair on a wooden frame is 25%. The same seat on a metal frame is 50%. A wooden dining chair with no upholstery is 50%. Wooden kitchen furniture is 25%, wooden bedroom furniture is 50%, other wooden furniture for the home is 50%, and metal and plastic furniture are both 50%. One line is missing outright: 9401.31, wooden swivel chairs with height adjustment, is not on the list, while the non-wooden version of that same office chair is 50%.

Seats, other furniture and parts thereof

25% or 50%
Tariff items behind this rate (10)
  • 9401.61.1025%Other seats, with wooden frames: Upholstered: For domestic purposes
  • 9401.69.1050%Other seats, with wooden frames: Other: For domestic purposes
  • 9401.71.1050%Other seats, with metal frames: Upholstered: For domestic purposes
  • 9401.39.1050%Swivel seats with variable height adjustment: Other: For domestic purposes
  • 9403.40.0025%Wooden furniture of a kind used in the kitchen
  • 9403.50.0050%Wooden furniture of a kind used in the bedroom
  • 9403.60.1050%Other wooden furniture: For domestic purposes
  • 9403.20.0050%Other metal furniture
  • 9403.70.1050%Furniture of plastics: For domestic purposes
  • 9403.91.0025%Parts: Of wood

What people get wrong

This is one of the few categories where the naive rule - American brand, American factory - is close to right, and it is worth knowing why rather than getting it right by luck. Upholstered furniture is bulky and expensive to ship, so the big US recliner and sofa brands really do build in the United States and Mexico. It also means the Canadian answers here are real manufacturers rather than importers, which is rarer on this site than you would hope.

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  • Durham Furniture

    Solid wood bedroom furniture

    Source: durhamfurniture.com · checked 2026-08-26

    Made in CanadaConfirmed by the maker

    Where it is made: Durham, Ontario

    Its own site says all of its furniture is made from sustainably harvested solid wood at its plant in the Town of Durham, Ontario. Bedroom furniture is the 50% line, so this is the largest single saving in the category.

    Visit Durham Furniture

  • Canadel

    Dining tables and chairs

    Source: canadel.com · checked 2026-08-26

    Made in CanadaConfirmed by the maker

    Where it is made: Louiseville, Quebec

    Publishes its Louiseville, Quebec plant address and says roughly 1,150 chairs and 200 tables are hand-assembled and hand-finished there daily. Its own marketing phrase is "proudly made in North America" rather than "made in Canada", so confirm the specific piece if that distinction matters to you.

    Visit Canadel

  • EQ3

    Custom upholstery only

    Source: eq3.com · checked 2026-08-26

    Made in CanadaConfirmed by the maker

    Where it is made: Winnipeg, Manitoba

    Listed for the custom upholstery line specifically. EQ3 says product design, R and D and custom upholstery manufacturing all happen at its Winnipeg headquarters - and says in the same breath that its products "might not always be made in Canada". Credit for saying so. The rest of the catalogue is sourced from partners and was not checked here.

    Visit EQ3

Not what you would guess
  • La-Z-Boy

    Recliners and upholstered sofas

    Source: la-z-boy.com · checked 2026-08-26

    Depends on the modelConfirmed by the maker

    Where it is made: Tennessee, Missouri and Arkansas, plus three plants in Mexico

    La-Z-Boy lists its own plants: Dayton in Tennessee, Neosho in Missouri and Siloam Springs in Arkansas, alongside three in Mexico. It does not publish which plant builds which model, and the two countries land on opposite sides of this surtax. Upholstered wooden-frame seating is the 25% line rather than the 50% one, which softens it, but the origin marking is the only thing that settles it.

    Visit La-Z-Boy

Home & kitchen

Mattresses and bedding

Nothing. Heading 9404 - mattress supports, mattresses of every construction, duvets, quilts, pillows and cushions - does not appear anywhere in the 648 tariff items. The bedroom furniture standing next to the bed is 50%. The mattress on it is not on the list at all.

Mattress supports; articles of bedding and similar furnishing

Not on the listThese goods do not appear on the official tariff-item list.

Why it is widely believed otherwise

Furniture is on the list prominently and at the top rate, and a mattress is sold in furniture stores, by furniture retailers, next to furniture that is tariffed. The tariff schedule puts bedding in its own heading, and that heading was not taken.

What people get wrong

Canada has an unusually deep domestic mattress industry, for the ordinary reason that mattresses are bulky, awkward to ship and cheap relative to their volume. Those makers are worth knowing about - but not on a tariff pretext, because there is no surtax here to avoid. Only what could be sourced is listed below; several other Canadian brands describe themselves as Canadian-made without publishing enough to check.

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Canadian-made anyway
  • Polysleep

    Foam mattresses and toppers

    Source: polysleep.ca · checked 2026-08-26

    Made in CanadaConfirmed by the maker

    Where it is made: Montreal, Quebec

    Carries "Proudly Made in Canada" in its own site branding and describes producing locally in Montreal. Its own wording refers to working closely with "our manufacturer", so this reads as Canadian contract manufacturing rather than a factory Polysleep owns. Canadian-made either way.

    Visit Polysleep

Home & kitchen

Rugs, carpet and floor coverings

A floor is one decision to a renovator and several different chapters to Canada's counter-tariff list, and the gap between the cheapest common floors is the widest spread this site has found on a single shopping trip. Carpet is chapter 57, and chapter 57 was taken close to whole: 32 tariff items, and every one of them is on the list. Thirty are 25% - wool rugs, made-up pile rugs, machine-tufted nylon broadloom, carpet tiles, and the catch-all at 5705.00.00 for other textile floor coverings. Two are not, and they sit together. 5703.39, machine-tufted carpet of man-made materials other than nylon, has two tariff items beneath it and both are 50%. Two rolls that look identical on a showroom floor can sit on either side of that, and the difference is the fibre, which is on the label rather than in the look. Vinyl is not chapter 57 at all. It is chapter 39, the plastics chapter, at heading 39.18, floor coverings of plastics. Its subheading for polymers of vinyl chloride, 3918.10, has two tariff items and both are 50%. That is the luxury vinyl plank and the sheet vinyl that have taken over the low end of the flooring market, and 50% is the highest band on the list. The subheading beside it, 3918.90, floor coverings of other plastics, was not taken at all - so the material, not the product, is what decides. And then the absences, which are the useful part. Solid hardwood strip flooring is heading 44.09, continuously shaped wood, and 44.09 is not on the list. Engineered and assembled flooring panels are heading 44.18, builders' joinery and carpentry of wood, and 44.18 is not on the list. Laminate is heading 44.11, fibreboard, and 44.11 is not on the list. Particleboard and OSB underlayment at 44.10 are not on the list. Ceramic and porcelain tile - headings 69.07 and 69.08, which between them cover every glazed and unglazed floor tile there is - are not on the list. Neither are the stone and concrete floor articles of 68.10. Linoleum is the sharpest of them. Linoleum is heading 59.04, and 59.04 is not on the list, while the vinyl sheet sold off the roll beside it is 50%. A shopper cannot tell those two apart by looking, and one of them carries the top rate while the other carries none. One caution about the subfloor, because it does not follow the finish floor. Plywood is heading 44.12 and every one of its thirteen tariff items is 50%, which this site records under doors, windows and building materials. So a hardwood floor is untariffed and the plywood underlayment it is nailed to is not.

Carpets and other textile floor coverings; floor coverings of plastics

25%on carpet, 50% on vinyl
Tariff items behind this rate (9)
  • 5701.10.1025%Of wool or fine animal hair: Machine knotted
  • 5702.42.0025%Other, of pile construction, made up: Of man-made textile materials
  • 5703.29.1025%Of nylon or other polyamides: Other: Machine tufted
  • 5703.39.1050%Of other man-made textile materials: Other: Machine tufted
  • 5703.39.9050%Of other man-made textile materials: Other: Other
  • 5704.10.0025%Tiles, having a maximum surface area of 0,3 m2
  • 5705.00.0025%Other carpets and other textile floor coverings, whether or not made up
  • 3918.10.1050%Of polymers of vinyl chloride: Wall or ceiling coverings combined with knitted or woven fabrics, nonwovens or felt
  • 3918.10.9050%Of polymers of vinyl chloride: Other

What people get wrong

Carpet is heavy and cheap per kilogram, which is exactly the profile of a good that gets made near where it is sold, so there is Canadian production here. Hardwood is the same story with better paperwork. The awkward one is vinyl, which is both the line that carries 50% and the line where a Canadian-sounding brand is least likely to mean a Canadian-made floor. The flooring aisle is full of Canadian companies, and a company is not a factory. TORLYS was founded in Toronto in 1988 and is about as Canadian as a flooring brand gets - and its own about page says the company evolved into a "virtual manufacturer". That is the company describing itself, and it is a straight answer to a question most brands leave open: TORLYS does not make its floors. What it does not say is who does, or where, and TORLYS sells vinyl, which is the 50% line. Beaulieu is the reverse and needs the same care for a different reason. Its own site now says it is "a leading Canadian carpet manufacturer" and lists a portfolio that runs well past carpet - "broadloom, needle felt, and grass carpet, as well as carpet tiles, laminate, engineered hardwood, and a wide selection of vinyl flooring collections". Read that sentence carefully. It is a manufacturing claim about carpet attached to a catalogue that includes vinyl, and it never says the vinyl is made where the carpet is. This is the Richelieu problem from the hardware entry in a different aisle: real Canadian plants, a much wider catalogue, and no published mapping from one to the other. So this site can point at Canadian-made carpet and Canadian-made hardwood on the manufacturers' own words, and cannot point at a Canadian-made vinyl floor. If you are replacing a floor and the tariff is what is driving the decision, the strongest move is not a brand at all - it is that hardwood, engineered wood, laminate, tile and linoleum are not on Canada's list in the first place, whoever made them and wherever they came from.

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  • Beaulieu Canada

    Broadloom carpet, carpet tile and area rugs

    Source: madeinca.ca · checked 2026-08-26

    Made in CanadaReported by a third party

    Where it is made: Acton Vale, Quebec

    One of the largest carpet manufacturers in the country, producing at Acton Vale, Quebec with around 500 employees. Owned by the Beaulieu International Group of Belgium - so Canadian-made and foreign-owned, which is the same shape as DECIEM in skincare and the opposite of the usual warning. Its own site calls itself "a leading Canadian carpet manufacturer with over 70 years of experience in the manufacturing and distribution of floor covering" but does not publish the plant location, so the Acton Vale detail rests on secondary sourcing and this stays reported rather than verified. Note the scope of the first-party claim as well: the same page lists laminate, engineered hardwood and vinyl collections alongside the carpet, and the manufacturing sentence is about carpet. This row is about the carpet.

    Visit Beaulieu Canada

  • Mercier Wood Flooring

    Solid and engineered hardwood flooring

    Source: mercier-wood-flooring.com · checked 2026-08-26

    Made in CanadaConfirmed by the maker

    Where it is made: Sawmill at Drummondville, Quebec; finishing at Montmagny, Quebec

    One of the few rows on this site where a company describes its own production line end to end. Mercier says it has been "vertically integrated for over twenty years", that "our Drummondville, Quebec, hardwood sawmill provides the raw lumber materials that we use", and that "the meticulously manufactured Solid and Engineered wood floorboards are then sent to Montmagny, Quebec, to our head office, which regroups finishing operations, from the finish and staining applications to delivery". Sawn in Quebec, finished in Quebec, said by Mercier. Hardwood and engineered flooring are headings 44.09 and 44.18 and neither is on Canada's counter-tariff list, so buying this saves no surtax. It is here because it is the answer to the question a reader actually has when the vinyl they wanted turns out to be 50%.

    Visit Mercier Wood Flooring

Not what you would guess
  • TORLYS

    Vinyl, laminate, hardwood and cork floors

    Source: torlys.com · checked 2026-08-26

    Origin unconfirmedNot verified

    Where it is made: Not stated - the company describes itself as a "virtual manufacturer"

    Here because a Toronto-founded flooring company selling vinyl is exactly the row a shopper would assume is safe. TORLYS says on its own about page that the company was founded in 1988 in Toronto, Ontario, and that under later leadership it "evolved into a virtual manufacturer, pioneering many industry-first innovations in Canada". Virtual manufacturer is their phrase, not ours, and it is unusually honest: the company designs and sells floors it does not produce. It does not follow that the floors are US-origin - they may well not be - and it does not follow that they are not. It follows only that the brand cannot answer the question, and vinyl is the 50% line, so on a vinyl purchase the answer has to come from the country of origin on the carton rather than from the name on it.

    Visit TORLYS

  • Shaw Floors

    Resilient and luxury vinyl flooring

    Source: shawinc.com · checked 2026-08-26

    Depends on the modelConfirmed by the maker

    Where it is made: Manufactured in the United States from globally sourced materials; headquartered in Dalton, Georgia

    Shaw is the largest name in North American flooring and it states its own position on the 50% line directly. Its manufacturing page says that "our recent investments in resilient manufacturing reflect our commitment to addressing the increasing demand for resilient flooring" and that this is done "by expanding our manufacturing capabilities in the U.S. and sourcing high-quality materials globally". Resilient is the trade word for vinyl. The page also says Shaw is "headquartered in Dalton, Georgia" and is a wholly owned subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway. Marked mixed rather than a flat US origin for the reason Shaw itself gives: US manufacturing plus global sourcing means the carton, not the brand, decides. Where a plank is US-origin it lands on 3918.10.90 at 50%, the top band.

    Visit Shaw Floors

Home & kitchen

Pots, pans and cookware

Metal cookware is on the list at 25%: stainless steel pots and pans, enamelled steel, aluminium pans, and even steel wool and pot scourers. Three things sitting on the same shelf are not on it at all. Cast iron cookware has its own lines, 7323.91 and 7323.92, and neither was taken. Ceramic and porcelain tableware (headings 6911 and 6912) are absent. So is glassware (7013). A stainless saucepan is caught; the cast iron skillet and the porcelain dinner set beside it are not.

Table, kitchen or other household articles of iron, steel or aluminium

25%
Tariff items behind this rate (5)
  • 7323.93.9025%Other: Of stainless steel: Other
  • 7323.94.0025%Other: Of iron (other than cast iron) or steel, enamelled
  • 7323.99.0025%Other: Other
  • 7615.10.0025%Table, kitchen or other household articles and parts thereof; pot scourers and scouring or polishing pads, gloves and the like
  • 7323.10.0025%Iron or steel wool; pot scourers and scouring or polishing pads, gloves and the like

What people get wrong

This is the clearest case on the site of the list cutting across a shelf rather than across a country. To restate what the surtax actually attaches to: a US-origin stainless pot is tariffed, and a stainless pot of any other origin is not, no matter whose name is on it. The most famously American-made object in the whole aisle, a cast iron skillet, is not on the list on either count.

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  • Paderno

    Stainless steel cookware

    Source: paderno.com · checked 2026-08-26

    Made in CanadaConfirmed by the maker

    Where it is made: Prince Edward Island

    Its own site says the first Canadian Paderno plant opened on Prince Edward Island in 1979 and that Paderno continues to produce cookware there today. Not every item sold under the name is PEI-made - the brand is owned by Canadian Tire and the factory by Meyer, and accessories in particular are imported - so check the country of origin on the specific piece.

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Not what you would guess
  • Lodge

    Seasoned cast iron cookware

    Source: lodgecastiron.com · checked 2026-08-26

    Depends on the modelConfirmed by the maker

    Where it is made: South Pittsburg, Tennessee

    Here as the reverse of the usual warning, and the sharpest example on the site. Lodge says it operates two foundries in South Pittsburg, Tennessee. That is about as US-origin as a consumer good gets - and cast iron is not on the tariff list, so it is not surtaxed. Marked mixed because Lodge sells lines beyond the seasoned cast iron and those were not checked here. Avoiding it as an American brand would cost you a cheaper pan for no tariff reason at all.

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Knives, forks and spoons

This is the most complete coverage of any category on the site. Sixteen lines, all at 25%, and between them they take the knife and the fork almost entirely: the boxed table-cutlery set, the carving knife, every fixed-blade table knife, the folding knife, and on the flatware side every spoon and fork line there is, plated or not, sold as a set or singly. Even the loose replacement blade and the metal handle of a carving knife were taken. Where most categories on this site are a few lines lifted out of a much larger heading, headings 8211 and 8215 were taken close to whole. Then the drawer stops. Heading 8214 is not on the list, and 8214 is where the kitchen cleaver, the chopper and the mincing knife live - so the table knife is surtaxed and the cleaver beside it is not. Nor are scissors and kitchen shears, which are heading 8213. Nor are razors and razor blades, heading 8212. Nor is heading 8210, the hand-operated mechanical gadgets: the can opener, the grinder, the crank whisk. And the things you set the cutlery down on are absent too - porcelain and ceramic tableware under 6911 and 6912, and glassware under 7013, the same three the cookware entry names.

Knives with cutting blades, serrated or not, and blades therefor; spoons, forks, ladles, skimmers, cake-servers, fish-knives, butter-knives, sugar tongs and similar kitchen or tableware

25%
Tariff items behind this rate (16)
  • 8211.10.1025%Sets of assorted articles: Table cutlery
  • 8211.10.9025%Sets of assorted articles: Other
  • 8211.91.1025%Other: Table knives having fixed blades: Carving knives
  • 8211.91.9025%Other: Table knives having fixed blades: Other
  • 8211.92.0025%Other: Other knives having fixed blades
  • 8211.93.0025%Other: Knives having other than fixed blades
  • 8211.94.9025%Other: Blades: Other
  • 8211.95.1125%Other: Handles of base metal: Of table knives having fixed blades: Of carving knives
  • 8215.10.1025%Sets of assorted articles containing at least one article plated with precious metal: Containing spoons, knives and forks, of a kind used at the table
  • 8215.10.9025%Sets of assorted articles containing at least one article plated with precious metal: Other
  • 8215.20.1025%Other sets of assorted articles: Containing spoons, knives and forks, of a kind used at the table
  • 8215.20.9025%Other sets of assorted articles: Other
  • 8215.91.1025%Other: Plated with precious metal: Spoons or forks, of a kind used at the table
  • 8215.91.9025%Other: Plated with precious metal: Other
  • 8215.99.1025%Other: Other: Spoons or forks, of a kind used at the table
  • 8215.99.9025%Other: Other: Other

What people get wrong

The knife has a Canadian answer. The fork does not, and that gap is the whole story of this category. For knives there are real Canadian factories, two of them here, and both make kitchen knives rather than only outdoor ones. For flatware - the spoons and forks of heading 8215 - no Canadian manufacturer could be sourced at all. That is recorded here as a failure to find one rather than as proof that none exists, the same way the outerwear entry records the parka; if you know of a Canadian flatware factory still running, this entry is wrong and should be corrected. What can be said is that the obvious place to look does not answer. Paderno is the Canadian cookware manufacturer this site already recommends for pots and pans, it sells flatware sets under the same name, and its own product pages state no country of origin for them. On the knife side the American answer is both easier to find and easier to check: Cutco has made knives at Olean, New York for more than seventy-five years and states it plainly on its own site - though it states it about knives, and not about everything else it sells. The United States, by contrast, has one flatware manufacturer that says so on its masthead. That makes the 25% on heading 8215 unusually well aimed: an entire heading taken, pointed at an American industry that has largely already left. For most flatware on a Canadian shelf the surtax will not apply, because most of it was never American to begin with.

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  • North Arm Knives

    Kitchen, hunting and pocket knives

    Source: northarmknives.com · checked 2026-08-26

    Made in CanadaConfirmed by the maker

    Where it is made: Quadra Island, British Columbia

    Its own site states that the knives are manufactured on Quadra Island, British Columbia, with no qualifier limiting it to part of the range - rarer on this site than it should be. Kitchen knives are one of its listed categories, so this answers heading 8211 directly rather than by association. A small maker, and priced like one; listed because the claim is clean, not because it competes on price with a boxed set.

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  • Grohmann Knives

    Kitchen and outdoor knives

    Source: novascotia.com · checked 2026-08-26

    Made in CanadaReported by a third party

    Where it is made: Pictou, Nova Scotia

    The best-known Canadian knife factory, making knives in Pictou since 1957, and marked reported rather than verified only because its own site could not be read - grohmannknives.com sits behind bot protection and refused four attempts across two methods. The claim therefore rests on the Nova Scotia provincial tourism listing for the factory, which describes it as manufacturing knives for kitchen and outdoor use and lists factory tours on the premises. That is a credible third party rather than the manufacturer speaking, which is the same treatment given to Samuelsohn. If the site loads for you, read it and settle the confidence properly.

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Not what you would guess
  • Liberty Tabletop

    Stainless flatware

    Source: libertytabletop.com · checked 2026-08-26

    Depends on the modelConfirmed by the maker

    Where it is made: Sherrill, New York

    The sharpest match on this site between a tariff line and a single company. Its own site calls it America's ONLY Flatware Manufacturer, made in Sherrill, New York, and says it has been family-owned and operated there for more than 21 years. Heading 8215 was taken whole at 25%, and this is who is on the other end of it. Marked mixed on the Lodge precedent, because this data has no made-in-usa value and the catalogue was not checked line by line. Worth knowing before assuming the flatware aisle is broadly affected: almost none of the rest of it is American.

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  • Paderno

    Flatware sets

    Source: paderno.com · checked 2026-08-26

    Origin unconfirmedNot verified

    Where it is made: Not stated on the manufacturer's own product pages

    Here because the cookware entry recommends Paderno and a reader will reasonably carry that across the aisle. It does not carry. Paderno states plainly that it produces cookware in Prince Edward Island; on flatware its own story page says nothing, and the flatware product pages state no country of origin. Third-party listings disagree with each other, so none is cited. Recorded as unconfirmed rather than guessed either way. Not a warning about the product, and not a suggestion that it is American - only that a Canadian name on the cookware does not carry over to the cutlery, and the answer is on the box rather than in the brand.

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  • Cutco

    Table knives and steak knives

    Source: cutco.com · checked 2026-08-26

    Depends on the modelConfirmed by the maker

    Where it is made: Olean, New York

    The other American name in this drawer, and the one more likely to already be in a Canadian kitchen - Cutco sells direct into Canada and prices in Canadian dollars. Its own site states that Cutco knives have been made for more than 75 years at its factory in Olean, New York, and that all Cutco knives are American made. Read the noun in that sentence. The claim is about knives, and Cutco also sells tableware that is not a knife; nothing on the site extends Olean to it. So this row is scoped to the knives rather than to the brand, which is the same discipline the Paderno row above applies in the other direction. A Cutco table knife sits in 8211.91 at 25%. Marked mixed on the Lodge precedent, because this data has no made-in-usa value.

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Food containers, storage bins and bags

This is the one entry on the site where every tariff item cited carries the same rate, and it is the top one. Canada's counter-tariff list - the surtax Canada charges on goods of US origin arriving here - took the container aisle at 50% across three separate chapters, and it did not stop at plastics. Heading 39.24, tableware, kitchenware, other household articles and hygienic or toilet articles of plastics, has two tariff items and both are 50%. 3924.10.00 is tableware and kitchenware: the food storage containers, the plastic cutting boards, the picnic plates and cups, the measuring jugs. 3924.90.00 is the "other" line, and it is the one that catches the rest of the house - storage bins and totes, laundry baskets, buckets, drawer organisers, shower curtains, soap dishes. Between those two items sits most of what is sold in an organisation aisle, at the highest rate on the list. Bags are 39.23, and here only one line was taken. Heading 39.23 covers articles for the conveyance or packing of goods, and it has boxes and cases at 3923.10, sacks and bags at 3923.21 and 3923.29, carboys and bottles at 3923.30, spools at 3923.40, stoppers and lids at 3923.50, and a catch-all at 3923.90. Every one of those is absent except a single tariff item: 3923.21.90, the "other" line beneath sacks and bags of polymers of ethylene, at 50%. Polyethylene is what a garbage bag, a freezer bag and a sandwich bag are made of. Bags of any other plastic, at 3923.29, are not on the list. Nor are the plastic bottles at 3923.30 or the lids at 3923.50. Then paper, which is the surprise. Heading 48.19 is cartons, boxes and other packing containers of paper. Two of its lines were taken and both are 50%: 4819.10.00, cartons, boxes and cases of corrugated paper or paperboard, and 4819.40.00, other sacks and bags. Corrugated is the moving box, the shipping carton and the flat-pack shelf box. The folding cartons of non-corrugated paperboard at 4819.20 - the cereal box - are not on the list, and neither are the box files and letter trays at 4819.60. And then steel. Heading 73.10, cans, drums and similar containers of iron or steel up to 300 litres, was taken whole: all three tariff items, all 50%, including 7310.21.00, which is defined as "cans which are to be closed by soldering or crimping". That is the food can. It is a business-to-business purchase rather than something a shopper picks up, and what a surtax on the empty can does to the price of the full one is not something this site can check; it is recorded here as context rather than as a finding. The absences are what make this entry useful, because unusually the substitutes are not a brand at all - they are a material. Glassware is heading 70.13 and is not on the list. Ceramic and porcelain tableware, headings 69.11 and 69.12, are not on the list. Aluminium casks, drums, cans and boxes at 76.12 are not on the list, so the aluminium can escapes what the steel can did not. Plastic bathroom fixtures - baths, shower trays, washbasins, lavatory seats and covers, cisterns, all of heading 39.22 - are not on the list. Builders' ware of plastics at 39.25 is not on the list. And 39.26, the enormous residual heading for other articles of plastics, is not on the list either: the general catch-all for plastic goods was left alone while the two specific household lines above it were taken at the top rate. A glass storage jar and a plastic one do the same job on the same shelf. One of them is on Canada's list at 50% and the other is not on it at all.

Tableware, kitchenware and other household articles of plastics; sacks and bags of polymers of ethylene; cartons, boxes and sacks of paper; cans, drums and similar containers of iron or steel

50%
Tariff items behind this rate (8)
  • 3924.10.0050%Tableware and kitchenware
  • 3924.90.0050%Other
  • 3923.21.9050%Sacks and bags (including cones): Of polymers of ethylene: Other
  • 4819.10.0050%Cartons, boxes and cases, of corrugated paper or paperboard
  • 4819.40.0050%Other sacks and bags, including cones
  • 7310.10.0050%Of a capacity of 50 litres or more
  • 7310.21.0050%Of a capacity of less than 50 litres: Cans which are to be closed by soldering or crimping
  • 7310.29.0050%Of a capacity of less than 50 litres: Other

What people get wrong

Two things make this category different from most of the site. The first is that the substitute is a material rather than a brand, and that answer needs no sourcing at all: glass, ceramic and aluminium containers are not on Canada's list, whoever made them. That is checked above and it is the strongest advice this entry has. The second is that plastic housewares are the clearest example on the site of a category where American manufacturing is dominant and says so out loud. Sterilite is the case in point. Its own homepage says it has spent over 85 years "creating thoughtfully designed storage containers, bins, and drawers made in the USA", and its story page calls it "the largest plastic housewares manufacturer in North America, with seven manufacturing plants and over 12 million square feet of production space". Note the two different phrases doing two different jobs. The product claim is "made in the USA" and it is unambiguous. The corporate claim is "North America", which is the same word Leland Industries and Gray Tools use elsewhere on this site, and which does not answer a country-of-origin question - and Sterilite's own contact page gives a PO box in Townsend, Massachusetts rather than a plant list, so where the seven plants are is not published. On the Canadian side the strongest answer is in bags rather than bins. Polykar describes itself on its own about page as "an award-winning leader in the manufacturing of sustainable packaging solutions" and says that over more than thirty years "our focus has been on manufacturing environmentally-friendly industrial garbage bags, compostable bags for organic waste collection, food packaging and on recycling polyethylene". It describes a "dual-plant model" and records the opening of a facility in Edmonton, Alberta in 2022. That is a manufacturer describing its own manufacturing, but it never states which plant makes what, which is why the row below is reported rather than verified. For plastic containers and storage bins specifically - the 39.24 lines, which are the ones a household actually buys - no Canadian manufacturer could be sourced for this entry from its own words. That is a gap, it is named rather than filled, and if you know a Canadian maker of household plastic storage that states where it manufactures, that is the row this entry is missing.

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  • Polykar

    Garbage bags, compostable organic-waste bags and food packaging film

    Source: polykar.com · checked 2026-08-26

    Made in CanadaReported by a third party

    Where it is made: Two plants, one of them in Edmonton, Alberta; head office in Montreal

    The Canadian answer to the one bag line Canada surtaxed. Polykar's own about page calls the company "an award-winning leader in the manufacturing of sustainable packaging solutions" and says that for more than thirty years "our focus has been on manufacturing environmentally-friendly industrial garbage bags, compostable bags for organic waste collection, food packaging and on recycling polyethylene". It refers to a "dual-plant model" and dates the opening of a facility in Edmonton, Alberta to 2022. This is reported rather than verified for a specific reason: the page establishes that Polykar manufactures polyethylene bags and that it has two plants, but never says which products come out of which plant, or states plainly that manufacturing happens in Canada. That is the general-claim-without-specifics case the confidence scale is for. Polyethylene bags are 3923.21.90 at 50%, so this is one of the rows on the site where switching supplier is a real saving rather than a preference.

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Not what you would guess
  • Sterilite

    Storage containers, bins and drawers

    Source: sterilite.com · checked 2026-08-26

    Depends on the modelConfirmed by the maker

    Where it is made: Made in the USA on the company's own claim; seven plants, locations not published; PO box address in Townsend, Massachusetts

    The default storage bin in most Canadian stores, and one of the few brands on this site that answers the origin question without being asked. Sterilite's homepage says that "for over 85 years, Sterilite has been creating thoughtfully designed storage containers, bins, and drawers made in the USA", and its story page calls the company "the largest plastic housewares manufacturer in North America, with seven manufacturing plants and over 12 million square feet of production space". Storage bins and drawers are 3924.90.00, which is 50% - the top band - so a US-origin Sterilite tote is among the most heavily surtaxed everyday objects in this directory. Marked mixed rather than a flat US origin on the Lodge precedent: the made-in-the-USA sentence is scoped to containers, bins and drawers, the corporate sentence says North America rather than the United States, the seven plant locations are not published, and the catalogue was not checked line by line. As always the carton settles it, not the brand.

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Light fixtures and lamps

Four lines, and three of them end with the same phrase: designed for use solely with light-emitting diode (LED) light sources. That is the test, and it is a strange one, because it does not ask what the fixture is or what it costs. It asks whether the bulb can be changed. A sealed LED ceiling fixture, the kind with no socket in it, is 9405.11.00 at 50%. The same fixture in the same style with an ordinary screw-in socket is 9405.19, which is not on the list - and neither is the bulb you would screw into it, because heading 8539, the bulbs themselves, is absent in its entirety. The surtax lands on the fixture that cannot be re-lamped and misses both halves of the one that can. Then it narrows again, because the LED test only bites in part of the heading. Ceiling and wall fittings were taken at 9405.11, and the catch-all for other luminaires at 9405.42, which is where LED strip, under-cabinet lighting and outdoor floodlights sit; that same line also names motion picture and theatrical spotlights outright. But 9405.21, the electric table, desk, bedside and floor-standing lamp, was not taken - so an LED-only desk lamp is not surtaxed while an LED-only ceiling light above it is. Nor were 9405.31, the Christmas light string; 9405.41, the solar-powered LED path light; 9405.50, the non-electrical lantern; or 9405.61 and 9405.69, illuminated signs and name-plates. Even the parts split. 9405.99 is on the list at 50% and covers parts that are neither glass nor plastic, while 9405.91 and 9405.92 - parts of glass and parts of plastics - are absent. The glass shade is not surtaxed. The metal arm holding it up is.

Chandeliers and other electric ceiling or wall lighting fittings, other electric luminaires and lighting fittings, and parts thereof

50%on LED-only ceiling, wall and built-in fixtures
Tariff items behind this rate (4)
  • 9405.11.0050%Chandeliers and other electric ceiling or wall lighting fittings, excluding those of a kind used for lighting public open spaces or thoroughfares: Designed for use solely with light-emitting diode (LED) light sources
  • 9405.42.1050%Other electric luminaires and lighting fittings: Other, designed for use solely with light-emitting diode (LED) light sources: Motion picture or theatrical spotlights
  • 9405.42.9050%Other electric luminaires and lighting fittings: Other, designed for use solely with light-emitting diode (LED) light sources: Other
  • 9405.99.0050%Parts: Other

Why it is widely believed otherwise

Because lighting reads as one aisle and 50% is the band people have heard about, so the whole aisle looks taken. It is four lines out of a heading with fifteen subheadings. What makes it feel arbitrary is that the test has almost nothing to do with lighting: it turns on whether the light source is fixed in place, which is a manufacturing fact about the fixture rather than anything a shopper would think to check. The suits and knitwear entries on this site show the same shape with fibre - a rule that is invisible on the shelf and decisive on the invoice.

What people get wrong

Lighting is the first category here where the Canadian answer was easy to find and the best-known Canadian claim was the hardest to check, and the distance between those two things is the note. The easy part: Luminaire Authentik of Cowansville, Quebec states on its own site that its fixtures are designed, engineered and manufactured 100% locally in its workshop, with nothing narrowing it to part of the range. That is the cleanest origin sentence read for this site so far. Standard Products, which trades as Stanpro, is the larger Montreal name and is more careful with its words: its SILK LED cylinders are described as designed and assembled in Canada, on the individual product pages rather than as a claim about the company. Assembled is not manufactured, and per-series is not per-catalogue. Both of those are recorded below rather than rounded up. The hard part is the name a reader is most likely to reach for first. Liteline of Richmond Hill, Ontario calls itself Canada's largest independent lighting manufacturer and puts PROUDLY CANADIAN on its front page, and its about page - read on 26 August 2026 - describes it as a lighting manufacturer headquartered in Canada. Headquartered. The page describes a 160,000 square foot facility in Richmond Hill and a distribution centre in Langley, and does not say that fixtures are made at either. That is an absence of a claim and is recorded as one; it is not evidence that anything is imported, and if the company states a manufacturing location anywhere, this paragraph is wrong and should be corrected. Then the American side, which states this site's whole argument better than the site does. Acuity Brands, the parent of Lithonia Lighting, writes on its own site that many Acuity products are manufactured in the U.S. without any ordering modification, and that where a product is typically manufactured in a foreign country, a Buy American ordering option will designate that the product be manufactured in the U.S. instead. Read that twice. The same catalogue number can be American or not, and which one arrives is decided when the order is placed. There is no brand-level answer to whether a Lithonia fixture is US-origin, and no model-level answer either. There is only the unit in the box.

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  • Luminaire Authentik

    Pendants, ceiling fixtures and wall sconces

    Source: luminaireauthentik.com · checked 2026-08-26

    Made in CanadaConfirmed by the maker

    Where it is made: Cowansville, Quebec

    The clean claim this entry is built on. Its own about page states that the lighting fixtures are designed, engineered and manufactured 100% locally in the workshop in Cowansville, with no qualifier narrowing it to part of the range, and adds that the company sources from businesses within a 30 km radius of the factory. Decorative pendants and sconces for residential and commercial projects, sold online and through three boutiques. A design-led maker at design-led prices, listed because the claim is unqualified and checkable rather than because it competes with a big-box fixture on price.

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  • Standard Products (Stanpro)

    SILK LED architectural cylinders and other LED luminaires

    Source: standardpro.com · checked 2026-08-26

    Depends on the modelConfirmed by the maker

    Where it is made: Canada, on the series that say so

    The larger Canadian name in this category, and a carefully worded one. The product page for the 6-inch SILK LED architectural cylinder says the fixture is designed and assembled in Canada, and other lines carry a Canadian Assembled attribute in their listings. Two words there are doing real work. Assembled is not manufactured, and the claim sits on individual product pages rather than on an about page, so it describes those series and not the catalogue behind them. Marked mixed for exactly that reason. This is a row to check a model number against rather than to trust brand-wide - which matters more here than usual, because Stanpro sells precisely the recessed and cylinder fixtures that 9405.11 and 9405.42 cover.

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Not what you would guess
  • Lithonia Lighting (Acuity Brands)

    LED ceiling, recessed and outdoor fixtures

    Source: insights.acuitybrands.com · checked 2026-08-26

    Depends on the modelConfirmed by the maker

    Where it is made: United States and elsewhere - selectable when the order is placed

    The biggest name in the aisle these four tariff lines actually cover, and the most interesting origin answer on this site. Acuity Brands, which owns Lithonia, writes on its own site that many Acuity products are manufactured in the U.S. without any ordering modification, and that where a product is typically manufactured in a foreign country, a Buy American ordering option will designate that the product be manufactured in the U.S. instead. Origin here is therefore not a property of the brand, and not a property of the model either - it is a line on the purchase order. Note the quantifier as well: many, not all. Marked mixed because that is literally what the company describes rather than an inference about it. If you are buying Lithonia in Canada this autumn, the country of origin printed on the carton is the only thing that settles it.

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  • Liteline

    Recessed, track and LED fixtures

    Source: liteline.com · checked 2026-08-26

    Origin unconfirmedNot verified

    Where it is made: Not stated on the company's own about page

    Here because a reader looking for a Canadian fixture will find this name first and reasonably stop there. Liteline is Canadian-owned, family-run since 1979, based at Richmond Hill, Ontario, and calls itself Canada's largest independent lighting manufacturer. What its about page says about geography is that it is a lighting manufacturer headquartered in Canada; it describes a 160,000 square foot facility in Richmond Hill and a distribution centre in Langley without saying that fixtures are made at either. Read on 26 August 2026. That is an absence of a claim and nothing more. This row is not a suggestion that the product is imported and certainly not that it is American - Liteline is a Canadian company. It carries no source because there is no origin claim to cite. If the company states one, replace this row with it.

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Sports, fitness and outdoor gear

Heading 95.06 is the sporting goods heading and it has seventeen subheadings. Three were taken, and the three that were taken are the two catch-alls and one oddity. The first is 9506.91.00, articles and equipment for general physical exercise, gymnastics or athletics, at 50% - that is the home gym. Treadmills, exercise bikes, weights, benches, racks, resistance equipment and yoga mats all classify here. The second is 9506.99.00, the residual "other" line for sports equipment not specified anywhere else, also at 50%, which is where hockey sticks land. The third is the strange one. Golf has three subheadings: 9506.31 for complete clubs, 9506.32 for balls, and 9506.39 for other golf equipment. Only 9506.39 was taken. So the clubs are not on the list, the balls are not on the list, and the bag, the tees, the head covers and the trolley are at 50%. Now the absences, which are most of the heading and cover most of what a sporting goods shop actually sells. Skis and ski bindings, 9506.11 and 9506.12, are not on the list. Water sports equipment including sailboards, 9506.21 and 9506.29, is not on the list. Table tennis, 9506.40, is not. Tennis, squash and badminton rackets, 9506.51 and 9506.59, are not. Balls of every kind - tennis balls, inflatable balls, other balls, 9506.61 through 9506.69 - are not. Ice skates and roller skates, 9506.70, are not. Fishing is split the same way as golf: rods at 9507.10.90 are 50%, while fish hooks at 9507.20 and reels at 9507.30 are absent. And the whole of chapter 64, footwear, is absent - running shoes, cleats and skate boots are not on this list. Nor is chapter 95 heading 9503, toys. What is left on the list is home gym equipment, hockey sticks, golf accessories, fishing rods, and track suits and similar garments at 6211.

Articles and equipment for general physical exercise, gymnastics or athletics; other sports equipment; fishing rods; track suits and other garments

50%
Tariff items behind this rate (8)
  • 9506.39.0050%Golf clubs and other golf equipment: Other
  • 9506.91.0050%Other: Articles and equipment for general physical exercise, gymnastics or athletics
  • 9506.99.0050%Other: Other
  • 9507.10.9050%Fishing rods: Other
  • 6211.32.0050%Other garments, men's or boys': Of cotton
  • 6211.33.0050%Other garments, men's or boys': Of man-made fibres
  • 6211.43.1050%Other garments, women's or girls': Of man-made fibres: Saris
  • 6211.43.9050%Other garments, women's or girls': Of man-made fibres: Other

What people get wrong

The exposure here is narrower than a 50% headline suggests and it is concentrated in one place: home fitness equipment. That is the part of this category where American manufacturing is real and where a shopper is most likely to buy a large US-origin item. Everything else on the list is either an accessory or a garment, and most of the sporting goods shop - skates, skis, rackets, balls, running shoes - is not on the list at all. Canadian manufacturing in fitness equipment is thin. Several Canadian companies sell home gym equipment and describe themselves as proudly Canadian, but selling and manufacturing are different claims, and none of the ones checked here states where its equipment is made. This site does not know where the Canadian fitness brands manufacture, and says so rather than filling the gap with an assumption about the industry. Bells of Steel is the clearest case: a Calgary company with showrooms in Calgary and Toronto, describing itself as proudly Canadian since 2010, which is a statement about the business rather than about where the steel was bent. That does not make it a bad answer - a Canadian company importing from Asia is not importing from the United States, which is the question this measure actually asks - but it is not a made-in-Canada answer and this site will not record it as one.

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  • Bells of Steel

    Home gym equipment, racks, barbells and plates

    Source: bellsofsteel.com · checked 2026-08-26

    Origin unconfirmedReported by a third party

    Where it is made: Not published. Canadian company with showrooms in Calgary and Toronto

    The Canadian name a reader looking for home gym equipment will find first, and worth including precisely because of what it does and does not establish. Bells of Steel is a Calgary company, describes itself as proudly Canadian since 2010, and runs showrooms in Calgary and Toronto - all of which is about the business rather than the metalwork. It does not say where its racks, bars and plates are made, and in this industry that is very unlikely to be Canada. Recorded as unconfirmed for that reason. Two practical notes. Buying from a Canadian company that imports from Asia still answers the question this measure asks, because the surtax applies to US-origin goods and not to Canadian retailers. And home gym equipment at 9506.91.00 is the single most exposed line in this entry, so it is also the one where checking the origin marking is actually worth the trouble.

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Tools & building

Power tools, hand tools, fasteners, doors, windows and building materials.

Tools & building

Power tools and hand tools

Everything below is Canada's counter-tariff list - the surtax Canada applies to goods of US origin arriving here. Power tools with their own motor are 25%: saws, chain saws, and the catch-all "other" lines that take most of the rest. Drills are the exception, and it is a strange one. Tariff item 8467.21, drills of all kinds, is not on the list, while the circular saw sold on the same battery platform by the same brand is. Non-powered hand tools are harder to predict, because the hand-tool aisle was not surtaxed as an aisle. It was surtaxed one tariff item at a time, and the items taken do not add up to anything a shopper would recognise as a group. Heading 82.05, other hand tools, is where the 50% sits, and it is one subheading of it. 8205.59 - the residual "other" line beneath "other hand tools" - is 50% across all three of its items, including the one for stapling and tacking guns. A residual line catches whatever the more specific subheadings above it did not, and the more specific subheadings are exactly the ones with familiar names on them. 8205.20, hammers and sledge hammers, is not on the list. Neither is 8205.40, screwdrivers. Nor 8205.30, planes, chisels and gouges. Nor 8205.10, drilling, threading and tapping tools. The hammer and the screwdriver are absent by name; the unnamed remainder is 50%. The rest of heading 82.05 is vices and clamps at 8205.70, and all three of those items are 25%, so a clamp is surtaxed at half the rate of the unnamed tool hanging next to it. Heading 82.03 breaks the same way. It has four subheadings: files and rasps, pliers and pincers and tweezers, metal cutting shears, and then pipe-cutters, bolt croppers and perforating punches. Only the last one was taken, at 25%. Pliers are not on the list. The bolt cutter hanging beside them is. Heading 82.07 is the interchangeable tools - the bits and cutters that go into everything above - and it carries the only 15% rate anywhere in this aisle. It also does not reach a consumer at all. The two items taken are 8207.20, dies for drawing or extruding metal, and 8207.30, tools for pressing, stamping or punching. Both are production tooling for a factory floor. Drill bits are 8207.50 and are not on the list. Screwdriver and wrench bits at 8207.90 are not on the list. Neither are rock drilling tools, milling tools or turning tools. Around all of that, whole headings were left alone. 82.01 - spades, shovels, mattocks, picks, hoes, forks, rakes, axes, secateurs, hedge shears - the entire garden tool heading, absent. 82.02, hand saws and every kind of saw blade including circular saw blades, absent. 82.04, spanners, wrenches and interchangeable spanner sockets, absent, which is the heading holding the single most recognisable hand tool there is. 82.06, tool sets made up of two or more articles of headings 82.02 to 82.05 put up for retail sale, absent - so a set can escape a rate that one of its own contents would have paid alone. 82.13, scissors and shears, absent. 82.14, the other articles of cutlery, absent.

Tools for working in the hand, with self-contained electric motor; hand tools not elsewhere specified; interchangeable tools for hand tools and machine-tools

25%on power tools, 50% on the main hand-tool line, 15% on industrial tooling
Tariff items behind this rate (13)
  • 8467.22.0025%With self-contained electric motor: Saws
  • 8467.29.0025%With self-contained electric motor: Other
  • 8467.81.0025%Other tools: Chain saws
  • 8467.89.0025%Other tools: Other
  • 8205.59.1050%Other hand tools (including glaziers' diamonds): Other: For climbing or mountaineering; Heads for use in the manufacture or production of other hand tools; Livestock branding irons
  • 8205.59.2050%Other hand tools (including glaziers' diamonds): Other: Stapling or tacking guns, and hammer tackers not operated by an independent hammer
  • 8205.59.9050%Other hand tools (including glaziers' diamonds): Other: Other
  • 8205.70.1025%Vices, clamps and the like: Clamps for use with the following surgical, dental, veterinary or diagnostic articles: Instruments; Sterilizers; Cobalt therapy units; Anaesthesia, surgical suction or oxygen administering apparatus
  • 8205.70.2025%Vices, clamps and the like: Precision clamps and vices, for toolmakers, machinists or metal workers
  • 8205.70.9025%Vices, clamps and the like: Other
  • 8203.40.0025%Pipe-cutters, bolt croppers, perforating punches and similar tools
  • 8207.20.0015%Dies for drawing or extruding metal
  • 8207.30.0015%Tools for pressing, stamping or punching

What people get wrong

Two different questions are hiding in this aisle and they have different answers. For power tools there is still no Canadian manufacturer to switch to, so the honest advice is not a brand at all: read the country of origin marked on the box, and know that the drill and the saw in the same combo kit can land on opposite sides of Canada's list. This is also the category where "American brand" and "American-made" come apart most confusingly, because the brands make both claims at once and the difference between them is deliberate. For hand tools there is a Canadian manufacturer, and establishing where it manufactures required the same detour this site has now taken three times. Gray Tools has been in Brampton, Ontario since 1912, and Made in CA describes it as the only manufacturer of industrial-quality hand tools in Canada, manufacturing in Brampton. Gray's own website never says that. It calls itself "Canada's Hand Tool Brand", which is a claim about a market rather than a factory, and its warranty support page describes the company as "a North-American tool manufacturer since 1912" - North American, the same word Leland Industries uses in the hardware entry, and under these tariffs North America includes the country the tariffs are about. The Brampton address appears on the warranty policy as a mailing address, which by the rule this site has already applied to Taymor and to Richelieu is not a manufacturing claim. So the row below is recorded as reported on a third party's word rather than verified on the company's own, and it carries the caveat Gray publishes itself: its warranty policy says Ingersoll-Rand and Test Products International items sold by Gray Tools Canada are warranted by their manufacturer rather than by Gray, so not everything with Gray on the invoice is a Gray tool. There is a further catch, and it decides whether switching saves anything. The tools Gray is best known for - wrenches, sockets and ratchets - are heading 82.04, and 82.04 is not on Canada's list at all. Buying them Canadian is a fine thing to do and it is not a tariff saving, because there is no surtax on them to avoid. Where a Canadian hand tool actually changes the invoice is the 50% residual at 8205.59 and the 25% line at 8203.40.

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  • Gray Tools

    Industrial hand tools - punches, chisels, struck tools, wrenches and sockets

    Source: madeinca.ca · checked 2026-08-26

    Made in CanadaReported by a third party

    Where it is made: Brampton, Ontario

    Made in CA records Gray Tools as manufactured in Brampton, Ontario, employing around 60 people there, and calls it the only manufacturer of industrial-quality hand tools in Canada. That is a third party, which is why this is reported and not verified: Gray's own site says "Canada's Hand Tool Brand Since 1912" and its warranty support page says "a North-American tool manufacturer since 1912", and neither sentence states a country of manufacture. Two caveats before acting on this. Gray also sells tools it did not make - its own warranty policy names Ingersoll-Rand and Test Products International products as warranted by their manufacturer rather than by Gray - so the brand on the invoice is not the origin of the item. And the part of the catalogue Gray is most famous for, wrenches and sockets, is in heading 82.04, which Canada did not surtax, so switching there is a preference rather than a saving.

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Not what you would guess
  • DeWalt

    Cordless saws and drills

    Source: toolguyd.com · checked 2026-08-26

    Depends on the modelReported by a third party

    Where it is made: Assembled at seven US plants from globally sourced components; most of the range made in Asia

    DeWalt is American-owned and does assemble in the United States, under the phrase "Built in the USA with global materials". That wording is chosen precisely because it is not the same claim as "Made in the USA", and it is not by itself a country-of-origin determination for Canadian customs. Most of the catalogue is still made in Asia. Two things follow: the badge on the tool does not settle the tariff, and even where a unit is US-origin, a drill is not on the list while a saw is.

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  • RIDGID

    Heavy-duty straight pipe wrenches

    Source: ridgid.com · checked 2026-08-26

    Depends on the modelConfirmed by the maker

    Where it is made: Cast at the Urick Foundry in Erie, Pennsylvania; painted, assembled and work-tested in Elyria, Ohio

    Here for the same reason the Lodge skillet is in the cookware entry: it is the most obviously American tool on the shelf and Canada did not surtax it. RIDGID describes its own process in detail - "It all starts in the Urick Foundry in Erie, Pennsylvania, where raw metals are melted, poured into moulds and treated to become ductile cast iron wrench handles", and "Then, the actual magic happens in Elyria, Ohio, where the handles are painted, all parts are assembled and every single RIDGID Wrench is work-tested before it leaves the factory". That is US origin stated first-hand. A pipe wrench is heading 82.04, which is not on Canada's counter-tariff list, so it carries no surtax. The RIDGID pipe cutter a plumber buys on the same visit is 8203.40.00 and is 25%. Marked mixed because only the pipe wrench line was checked here; RIDGID's wider catalogue was not.

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Tools & building

Builders' hardware and fasteners

The hardware aisle was not surtaxed as an aisle. It was surtaxed by chapter, and two different chapters run through it. Fasteners sit in chapter 73, the iron and steel chapter, which was taken close to whole at 50%. Heading 73.17 - nails, tacks, drawing pins, corrugated nails and staples - is a single tariff item and it was taken. Heading 73.18 - screws, bolts, nuts, coach screws, screw hooks, rivets, cotters, cotter-pins and washers - has twelve tariff items and every one of the twelve was taken. The aluminium equivalents follow at 7616.10.00, also 50%. Mountings and fittings sit in chapter 83 instead, and there the rate is 25%: 8302.10.00, which is one tariff item covering every hinge there is, whether it is for furniture, a motor vehicle or an interior or exterior door; 8302.42.00, mountings suitable for furniture; and the catch-all at 8302.49.00. So the hinge is 25% and the screws that fix it to the frame are 50%, and nothing about the hinge or the screw explains that. The chapter they were classified in does. The absences are sharper than the rates. Heading 83.01 - padlocks and locks, whether key, combination or electrically operated - is not on the list anywhere. Not padlocks, not locks for furniture, not the "other locks" item whose own statistical breakouts are dead bolt locks and locksets, not clasps and frames incorporating locks, not parts, and not keys presented separately. A deadbolt bought off the next shelf on the same afternoon carries no surtax at all, while the screws in its strike plate carry 50%. Then heading 83.02 splits in the one place a builder would least expect. Its subheading for other mountings and fittings suitable for buildings is 8302.41, and 8302.41 has two lines beneath it. The line that was taken, 8302.41.10 at 25%, is narrow and specific: bar or rod type door exit devices for commercial, institutional or industrial applications - the panic bar on a fire exit - together with rotary gear window operators and the parts for making them. The line beside it, 8302.41.90, is the general one, and its statistical breakouts are window hardware, garage door hardware, other door hardware, and drapery poles, rods and track. That line is not on the list. Meanwhile 8302.42.00, the same sort of fitting when it is suitable for furniture, is 25%. The cabinet pull is surtaxed and the door handle next to it is not. Castors at 8302.20, automatic door closers at 8302.60, and hat-racks, hat-pegs, brackets and similar fixtures at 8302.50 are all absent as well. Staples are the smallest of these and the most exact. A loose staple of iron or steel is heading 73.17 at 50%, but 73.17 excludes staples of heading 83.05 by name, and 8305.20.00, "staples in strips" - the collated strip you load into a tacker - is not on the list, nor is anything else in 83.05. The staple gun itself is 8205.59.20 at 50%, which this site records under power tools. Gun surtaxed, staples not, nails beside them surtaxed again.

Nails, tacks and staples, and screws, bolts, nuts, washers and rivets, of iron or steel; base metal mountings, fittings and similar articles suitable for furniture, doors, staircases and windows

50%on fasteners, 25% on hinges and cabinet hardware
Tariff items behind this rate (18)
  • 7317.00.0050%Nails, tacks, drawing pins, corrugated nails, staples (other than those of heading 83,05) and similar articles, of iron or steel, whether or not with heads of other material, but excluding such articles with heads of copper.
  • 7318.11.0050%Threaded articles: Coach screws
  • 7318.12.0050%Threaded articles: Other wood screws
  • 7318.13.0050%Threaded articles: Screw hooks and screw rings
  • 7318.14.0050%Threaded articles: Self-tapping screws
  • 7318.15.0050%Threaded articles: Other screws and bolts, whether or not with their nuts or washers
  • 7318.16.0050%Threaded articles: Nuts
  • 7318.19.0050%Threaded articles: Other
  • 7318.21.0050%Non-threaded articles: Spring washers and other lock washers
  • 7318.22.0050%Non-threaded articles: Other washers
  • 7318.23.0050%Non-threaded articles: Rivets
  • 7318.24.0050%Non-threaded articles: Cotters and cotter-pins
  • 7318.29.0050%Non-threaded articles: Other
  • 7616.10.0050%Nails, tacks, staples (other than those of heading 83,05), screws, bolts, nuts, screw hooks, rivets, cotters, cotter-pins, washers and similar articles
  • 8302.10.0025%Hinges
  • 8302.41.1025%Other mountings, fittings and similar articles: Suitable for buildings: Bar or rod type door exit devices, for commercial, institutional or industrial applications; For use in the manufacture or repair of rotary gear window operators; Rotary gear window operators; Snub-guides, lever-lock operators, torsion bars and centre hooks for lever-lock or rotary gear window operators, sash locks (excluding peg locks) and keepers for key-operated security locks or sash locks (excluding peg-locks), for use in the manufacture of casement or awning windows
  • 8302.42.0025%Other mountings, fittings and similar articles: Other, suitable for furniture
  • 8302.49.0025%Other mountings, fittings and similar articles: Other

Why it is widely believed otherwise

Because hardware reads as one department and the tariff does not see departments. It sees articles of iron and steel in one chapter and base metal mountings in another, took them at different rates, and left different holes in each. Nothing on the shelf tells a shopper that a hinge and the screws packed with it are classified two chapters apart, or that the lock is in a heading of its own that was never touched. The lighting entry on this site has the same shape with a different test: an invisible technical distinction doing all the work on the invoice.

What people get wrong

This is the first category on this site where the best origin sources were not about pages at all. They were statutory filings, and the two most useful ones say something the marketing does not. Start with the good news, because there is some. Fasteners have a real Canadian answer. Leland Industries states on its own front page that it is a privately held Canadian company using only domestic steel and labour, that a recent expansion brought all phases of production and management into a single facility in suburban Toronto, and - in the fine print of its laboratory accreditation - that the quality assurance laboratory is located at the manufacturing plant and head office in Toronto, Ontario. That last sentence is what makes the city usable here rather than just an address on a contact page, which is the distinction that has kept other companies off this site. But read the marketing line carefully, because it is doing something. Leland asks customers to demand its NF and L head markings, which it says guarantee 100% North American manufactured fasteners made with North American steel. North American, not Canadian. Under these tariffs North America includes the country the tariffs are about, so a marking that guarantees continental origin does not answer the question this site exists to answer. The company's description of its own plant does. Nails have a Canadian answer with a similar shape and a blunter caveat. Tree Island Steel, the wire mill in Richmond, British Columbia, says on its about page that it operates three manufacturing facilities in North America - Richmond, Calgary, and San Bernardino, California - and that beyond that North American production it also sources goods globally. A Canadian company with an American mill inside it. Now the filings, which are the useful discovery in this entry. Canada's Fighting Against Forced Labour and Child Labour in Supply Chains Act requires companies above a size threshold to publish an annual report describing their supply chain, and those reports name manufacturing countries in plain language because the statute makes vagueness pointless. Taymor shows why that matters. Its about page says the company is proudly Canadian-owned and operated for over 75 years, and everything else on that page is about design. Its report under the Act, read on 26 August 2026, says its supply chain begins with the manufacture of architectural hardware products by a range of manufacturing suppliers located primarily in China and Taiwan, which are then imported into its North American distribution centres, and describes the company as family owned and headquartered in Delta, British Columbia. Headquartered - the word this site keeps running into. Both documents are Taymor's own and neither contradicts the other; one of them simply answers the question. Richelieu is the other, and it is the biggest Canadian name in this aisle. Its report under the same Act calls the company a North American leader in the import, manufacture and distribution of specialty hardware, offering products from manufacturers around the world, with 50 distribution centres and three manufacturing plants in Canada and 49 distribution centres in the United States. Three plants and fifty distribution centres is a real Canadian manufacturing footprint attached to a much larger distribution business, and the report never says which products come out of the plants. For any particular Richelieu item the honest answer is that we cannot tell, and it is recorded that way below. That leaves a gap. Of the 83.02 lines that were actually taken, the one a consumer meets is 8302.42.00, mountings suitable for furniture - the cabinet hinges and pulls in a kitchen renovation - and no Canadian manufacturer of those could be sourced for this entry from its own words. If you know one that states where it manufactures, that is the row this entry is missing. And then the American side, which is unusually candid. Simpson Strong-Tie writes that its structural connectors, prefabricated shearwalls and Strong-Rod systems are designed and engineered in the United States - designed and engineered, which is not the same word - and that many of its products are made in the US while it also sources or manufactures some overseas, in Europe, Canada or Asia. It then does something no other company on this site does: it publishes a trade compliance address and invites customers to write and ask where a specific product was made. That is a manufacturer stating outright that there is no brand-level answer.

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  • Leland Industries

    Bolts, nuts, screws, threaded rod and structural fasteners

    Source: lelandindustries.com · checked 2026-08-26

    Made in CanadaConfirmed by the maker

    Where it is made: Toronto, Ontario

    The Canadian answer to the 50% band, and the sourcing is unusually good for a private company. Leland describes itself on its own front page as a privately held Canadian company using only domestic steel and labour, says an expansion brought all phases of production and management into one facility in suburban Toronto, and states in its ISO/IEC 17025 accreditation notice that the quality assurance laboratory sits at the manufacturing plant and head office in Toronto, Ontario. That last line is what separates this row from a company that only publishes a mailing address. Two cautions. Leland is an industrial and OEM supplier - bolts for grain storage, metal buildings, post-frame construction and structural work - rather than a name in a retail fastener drawer, so this is a row for a contractor or a self-builder buying by the box. And its own head-marking guarantee is worded North American, not Canadian, and the company has sales and warehouse branches in Kansas, Minnesota and Oklahoma. The manufacturing claim is Toronto. The marking claim is a continent.

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  • Tree Island Steel

    Bulk and collated nails, staples and wire products

    Source: treeisland.com · checked 2026-08-26

    Depends on the modelConfirmed by the maker

    Where it is made: Richmond, British Columbia and Calgary, Alberta - and San Bernardino, California

    A British Columbia wire mill and the Canadian name most likely to be behind a box of framing nails, which heading 73.17 puts at 50%. It is marked mixed rather than made in Canada because its own about page is explicit: the company operates three manufacturing facilities in North America - the flagship in Richmond, British Columbia, a second in Calgary, and a mill in San Bernardino, California - and says that beyond its North American production it also sources goods globally to widen its offering. So a Tree Island carton is not by itself a Canadian answer, and the company does not present it as one. This is a row to check a carton against rather than to trust brand-wide.

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  • Taymor

    Door hardware, hinges, deadbolts and bath hardware

    Source: taymor.com · checked 2026-08-26

    Not US-madeConfirmed by the maker

    Where it is made: China and Taiwan

    Here because it is the name a reader looking for Canadian door hardware will find first, and because the real answer is published - just not on the page they will read. Taymor's about page says it is proudly Canadian-owned and operated for over 75 years, founded in 1948, and is otherwise about design. Its annual compliance report under the Fighting Against Forced Labour and Child Labour in Supply Chains Act says the supply chain begins with the manufacture of architectural hardware products by a range of manufacturing suppliers located primarily in China and Taiwan, which the company then imports into its North American distribution centres, and describes Taymor as family owned and headquartered in Delta, British Columbia. Both of those documents are Taymor's. Neither contradicts the other and nothing here is a criticism of the company; one document simply answers the question and the other was never trying to. As a practical matter this is a non-US option and it is not a Canadian-made one, which was never the same claim. It also lands almost entirely on tariff lines that were left off the list.

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Not what you would guess
  • Simpson Strong-Tie

    Joist hangers, structural connectors, anchors and structural screws

    Source: strongtie.com · checked 2026-08-26

    Depends on the modelConfirmed by the maker

    Where it is made: United States, Europe, Canada or Asia, depending on the product

    The dominant name in structural connectors, which fall at 25% under 8302.49.00, and in structural screws, which fall at 50% under 73.18. Its domestic content page is worth reading closely for what it does not claim. Structural connectors, prefabricated shearwalls and Strong-Rod systems are, in the company's words, designed and engineered in the United States - designed and engineered, which is not manufactured. Separately it says that many of its products are made in the US, and that it also sources or manufactures some of its product overseas, whether in Europe, Canada or Asia. Many, not all. It then publishes a trade compliance email address and asks customers with a question about the sourcing or manufacture of a specific product to write and ask. That is the clearest statement anywhere on this site that origin is a property of the individual item rather than of the brand, and it comes from the manufacturer.

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  • Richelieu Hardware

    Cabinet hinges, pulls, drawer slides and specialty hardware

    Source: richelieu.com · checked 2026-08-26

    Origin unconfirmedReported by a third party

    Where it is made: Three plants in Canada, and manufacturers around the world for the rest - the company does not say which products come from which

    The largest Canadian name in cabinet hardware, which is the one line in heading 83.02 that a kitchen renovation actually meets at 25%, and the row where this entry has to say that it does not know. Richelieu's own report under the Fighting Against Forced Labour and Child Labour in Supply Chains Act describes the company as a North American leader in the import, manufacture and distribution of specialty hardware, says it offers customers products from manufacturers around the world, and states that it has 50 distribution centres and three manufacturing plants in Canada plus 49 distribution centres in the United States. All three verbs are in that sentence, and the report does not say which products come out of the three plants. So the company is Canadian, some of its manufacturing is Canadian, and the origin of any particular hinge or pull on a shelf is not established by any of that. Marked reported rather than verified because what the company states is a general description of its structure and not a claim about a product. This is not a warning about Richelieu, which is a Canadian company with real Canadian plants. It is a warning against reading the company name off the box and stopping there.

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Tools & building

Doors, windows and building materials

This aisle was not surtaxed as an aisle. It was surtaxed by material, and the same product in four materials gets three different answers. A door or window of iron or steel is item 7308.30.00 at 50%, and the whole of heading 73.08 goes with it. The aluminium equivalent is 7610.10.00, also 50%. A wooden door or window is heading 44.18 - which contains a line whose own statistical breakout is literally "Prehung" - and 44.18 does not appear on the list at all. A vinyl one is 3925.20, builders ware of plastics, also absent. And the glass inside all four is absent too: neither 70.05, float glass, nor 70.07, safety glass, is on the list. So the steel patio door is surtaxed, the vinyl slider beside it is not, and the sealed unit going into either one is not. The sheet-goods aisle splits the same way and more sharply. Plywood was taken comprehensively - all thirteen tariff items in heading 44.12, at 50%, including laminated veneer lumber and blockboard. Oriented strand board is heading 44.10, and 44.10 is not on the list. Neither is 44.11, which is MDF and fibreboard. For sheathing and subfloor, OSB and plywood are direct substitutes stacked in the same aisle at the same store, and one of them carries a 50% surtax. Structural framing lands in a third place again: coniferous sawn lumber - pine, fir, spruce, S-P-F and hem-fir - is heading 44.07 at 25%. Not 50%, not absent. Twenty-five. Hardwood lumber, the non-coniferous lines of the same heading, is absent. So the studs are 25%, the plywood sheathing over them is 50%, the OSB alternative to that sheathing is nothing, and the insulation between them - mineral wool at 68.06 and glass wool at 70.19 - is nothing either. Nothing about any of these products explains the pattern. The chapter and the material do. What else is absent is worth stating, because the list of things this measure does not touch reads like most of a house: asphalt shingles at 68.07, concrete articles at 68.10, fibre-cement siding at 68.11, cement itself at 25.23, mouldings and flooring strips at 44.09, and prefabricated buildings at 94.06 - which heading 73.08 excludes by name, so a steel-framed prefab sits outside a measure that covers the steel frame sold loose.

Structures and parts of structures of iron, steel or aluminium, including doors and windows and their frames; plywood, veneered panels and laminated wood; coniferous wood sawn lengthwise

50%on steel, aluminium and plywood, 25% on softwood lumber
Tariff items behind this rate (22)
  • 4407.11.0025%Coniferous: Of pine (Pinus spp.)
  • 4407.12.0025%Coniferous: Of fir (Abies spp.) and spruce (Picea spp.)
  • 4407.13.0025%Coniferous: Of S-P-F (spruce (Picea spp.), pine (Pinus spp.) and fir (Abies spp.))
  • 4407.14.0025%Coniferous: Of Hem-fir (Western hemlock (Tsuga heterophylla) and fir (Abies spp.))
  • 4407.19.0025%Coniferous: Other
  • 4412.10.0050%Of bamboo
  • 4412.31.0050%Other plywood, consisting solely of sheets of wood (other than bamboo), each ply not exceeding 6 mm thickness: With at least one outer ply of tropical
  • 4412.33.0050%Other plywood, consisting solely of sheets of wood (other than bamboo), each ply not exceeding 6 mm thickness: Other, with at least one outer ply of n
  • 4412.34.0050%Other plywood, consisting solely of sheets of wood (other than bamboo), each ply not exceeding 6 mm thickness: Other, with at least one outer ply of n
  • 4412.39.0050%Other plywood, consisting solely of sheets of wood (other than bamboo), each ply not exceeding 6 mm thickness: Other, with both outer plies of conifer
  • 4412.41.0050%Laminated veneered lumber (LVL): With at least one outer ply of tropical wood
  • 4412.42.0050%Laminated veneered lumber (LVL): Other, with at least one outer ply of non-coniferous wood
  • 4412.49.0050%Laminated veneered lumber (LVL): Other, with both outer plies of coniferous wood
  • 4412.51.0050%Blockboard, laminboard and battenboard: With at least one outer ply of tropical wood
  • 4412.52.0050%Blockboard, laminboard and battenboard: Other, with at least one outer ply of non-coniferous wood
  • 4412.91.0050%Other: With at least one outer ply of tropical wood
  • 4412.92.0050%Other: Other, with at least one outer ply of non-coniferous wood
  • 4412.99.0050%Other: Other, with both outer plies of coniferous wood
  • 7308.30.0050%Doors, windows and their frames and thresholds for doors
  • 7610.10.0050%Doors, windows and their frames and thresholds for doors
  • 7610.90.1050%Other: For use in Canadian manufactures
  • 7610.90.9050%Other: Other

Why it is widely believed otherwise

Because "steel and aluminium" was the headline, and a renovation does not present itself as a chapter of the Customs Tariff. A builder pricing a job sees doors, windows, sheathing, framing and insulation as one project with one budget. The measure sees five different classifications and treats them five different ways, and the differences are invisible at the till. This is the same shape as the builders hardware entry on this site, where a hinge and the screws packed with it are surtaxed two chapters apart - except that here the split runs through the most expensive line items in most renovations.

What people get wrong

The good news in this category is unusually good: the products most exposed to the surtax are also the ones where Canada has real, findable, first-party-documented manufacturing. Windows first. Fenplast states on its own site that it is the only door and window manufacturer in Quebec running a fully integrated manufacturing process - from design through extrusion of the PVC profiles, through fabrication of the sealed units, to final assembly - under the heading "proudly made here". That is a description of a factory rather than a sales office, and it is worth reading alongside the tariff position, because PVC windows are the ones that are not on the list. A Quebec-made vinyl window sits outside this measure twice over. All Weather Windows makes a comparable claim in English and at scale: "Built in Canada, Built for Life", more than 45 years in window and door manufacturing, and a 286,000 square foot manufacturing facility which it describes as where its windows, doors and glass are made. Its head office is in Edmonton. Sheet goods are where it gets more complicated, and West Fraser is the case worth understanding. It is Canadian - the corporate headquarters is on West Georgia Street in Vancouver - and by its own account it runs more than fifty facilities across Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom and Europe, including 32 lumber mills, 15 OSB mills and nine engineered wood mills. It makes both of the products this entry contrasts: plywood, at 50%, and OSB, at nothing. What it does not publish is which mill made the sheet in front of you. So a Canadian company is not the same answer as a Canadian sheet, and on a 50% line that difference is worth the thirty seconds it takes to read the stamp. That is where it stands: for windows the Canadian answer is strong and specific; for plywood and OSB the company is Canadian and the individual sheet is a question the company does not answer.

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  • Fenplast

    PVC and hybrid windows and patio doors

    Source: fenplast.com · checked 2026-08-26

    Made in CanadaConfirmed by the maker

    Where it is made: Quebec

    The strongest Canadian row in this entry, and the one where the tariff answer and the origin answer point the same way. Fenplast describes itself as the only door and window manufacturer in Quebec running a fully integrated manufacturing process - design, extrusion of the PVC profiles, fabrication of the sealed units, and assembly - which is a claim about owning the steps rather than about where the invoices are addressed. Two things make this unusually clean. PVC windows sit at 3925.20, which is not on the list, and the sealed glass units sit at 70.05 and 70.07, which are not on the list either. So this is a Canadian-made product that was never going to be surtaxed, which is a different and better position than a Canadian-made product that merely avoids one. The site is primarily in French.

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  • All Weather Windows

    Vinyl windows and doors

    Source: allweatherwindows.com · checked 2026-08-26

    Made in CanadaConfirmed by the maker

    Where it is made: Canada, head office Edmonton, Alberta

    The English-Canada counterpart to Fenplast and the larger of the two. Its about page leads with "Built in Canada, Built for Life", says the company has been in window and door manufacturing for more than 45 years, and describes a 286,000 square foot manufacturing facility as the place where its windows, doors and glass are made. Its head office is in Edmonton, Alberta. One deliberate limit on this row: the company states plainly that it builds in Canada and describes the facility, but the pages read here do not name the city the facility sits in, so this row says Canada and stops there rather than assuming the plant shares the head office address. That distinction has mattered elsewhere on this site.

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Not what you would guess
  • West Fraser

    Plywood, OSB, LVL, MDF and dimensional lumber

    Source: westfraser.com · checked 2026-08-26

    Depends on the modelConfirmed by the maker

    Where it is made: More than 50 facilities across Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom and Europe - the company does not say which mill made which sheet

    A Canadian company, and still a row to check the stamp on - which is this whole site compressed into one product. West Fraser is headquartered in Vancouver and states on its own about page that it operates more than fifty facilities across Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom and Europe, including 32 lumber mills, 15 OSB mills, nine engineered wood mills and two pulp and paper mills. It is one of the largest producers of these goods in the world. It also makes both sides of this entry's sharpest contrast: plywood and LVL, which heading 44.12 puts at 50%, and OSB, which heading 44.10 leaves off the list entirely. What the company does not publish - and there is no particular reason it would - is which of those mills produced the specific sheet on the rack. So the brand tells you the company is Canadian and tells you nothing about whether a given sheet crossed a border. On a 50% line that is worth checking rather than assuming, in either direction: a West Fraser sheet is not automatically surtaxed, and it is not automatically safe.

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Cars & vehicles

Cars, light trucks, motorcycles and bicycles.

Cars & vehicles

Cars and light trucks

Passenger cars are on the list at 25%, and unusually for this list there is no gap to find: petrol, diesel, hybrid, plug-in hybrid and battery electric each have their own line and every one of them was taken. Electric cars are named on their own item, 8703.80.00. Light trucks and vans up to 5 tonnes are 25% on the same pattern. The only absence is 8703.21, petrol cars under 1,000 cc, and that is a curiosity rather than advice - almost nothing sold in Canada is that small. This is the largest purchase on the entire list, so 25% here is worth more in dollars than every other entry on this site put together.

Motor cars and other motor vehicles principally designed for the transport of persons; motor vehicles for the transport of goods

25%
Tariff items behind this rate (10)
  • 8703.23.0025%Other vehicles, with only spark-ignition internal combustion piston engine: Of a cylinder capacity exceeding 1,500 cc but not exceeding 3,000 cc
  • 8703.24.0025%Other vehicles, with only spark-ignition internal combustion piston engine: Of a cylinder capacity exceeding 3,000 cc
  • 8703.33.0025%Other vehicles, with only compression-ignition internal combustion piston engine (diesel or semi-diesel): Of a cylinder capacity exceeding 2,500 cc
  • 8703.40.9025%Other vehicles, with both spark-ignition internal combustion piston engine and electric motor as motors for propulsion, other than those capable of being charged by plugging to external source of electric power: Other
  • 8703.60.9025%Other vehicles, with both spark-ignition internal combustion piston engine and electric motor as motors for propulsion, capable of being charged by plugging to external source of electric power: Other
  • 8703.80.0025%Other vehicles, with only electric motor for propulsion
  • 8703.90.0025%Other
  • 8704.31.0025%Other, with only spark-ignition internal combustion piston engine: g.v.w. not exceeding 5 tonnes
  • 8704.51.0025%Other, with both spark-ignition internal combustion piston engine and electric motor as motors for propulsion: g.v.w. not exceeding 5 tonnes
  • 8704.60.0025%Other with only electric motor for propulsion

What people get wrong

This is the whole argument of this site in its purest form, and it is the one category where you do not have to take our word for anything. The surtax follows the factory, not the badge. A Toyota built in Kentucky is US-origin and surtaxed; a Volkswagen built in Puebla is not. And unlike a dishwasher, every car carries its build country stamped on it: the first character of the VIN. 1, 4 or 5 means the United States. 2 means Canada. 3 means Mexico. J is Japan, K is Korea, W is Germany. The VIN is on the dashboard at the base of the windshield, on the door jamb sticker, and on the insurance slip. Check it before you take any claim about a car seriously, including ours - most popular models are built at more than one plant, and which one built yours can change between model years and even between trims.

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  • Lexus

    RX and NX

    Source: tmmc.ca · checked 2026-08-26

    Not US-madeConfirmed by the maker

    Where it is made: Cambridge, Ontario; NX also Japan

    The sharpest inversion on this site. Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada says its Cambridge South plant builds the Lexus RX 350, RX 350h and RX 500h, and its Cambridge North plant builds the Lexus NX alongside the RAV4. No US plant builds either model - the NX is otherwise built in Japan - so neither is caught by these tariffs. The German luxury SUVs they are cross-shopped against are US-built and are. Marked not-us-origin rather than made-in-canada only because an NX may have come from Japan.

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  • Chrysler and Dodge

    Pacifica, Grand Caravan, Charger Daytona and Charger SIXPACK

    Source: media.stellantisnorthamerica.com · checked 2026-08-26

    Made in CanadaConfirmed by the maker

    Where it is made: Windsor, Ontario

    Stellantis' own plant page lists Windsor Assembly's products as the Chrysler Pacifica, the Chrysler Grand Caravan (Canadian market only), the Dodge Charger Daytona and the Dodge Charger SIXPACK. American nameplates, Ontario factory, and on origin they are the ones not surtaxed. The refreshed 2027 Pacifica started there in May 2026. Listed because the badge points the wrong way here.

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  • Toyota

    RAV4 and RAV4 Hybrid

    Source: pressroom.toyota.com · checked 2026-08-26

    Depends on the modelConfirmed by the maker

    Where it is made: Cambridge and Woodstock, Ontario; also Georgetown, Kentucky and Takaoka, Japan

    The most important row here, and the reason this entry leads with the VIN. Most RAV4s sold in North America still come from Toyota's Cambridge and Woodstock plants in Ontario. But Toyota announced that Georgetown, Kentucky started building the RAV4 Hybrid on 22 June 2026, which means RAV4s on Canadian lots are now a mix of Ontario-built and Kentucky-built units, and the Kentucky ones are US-origin. Canada's best-selling SUV, and the badge cannot tell you which one you are looking at. The VIN can.

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  • Honda

    Civic and CR-V

    Source: manufacturing.honda.com · checked 2026-08-26

    Depends on the modelReported by a third party

    Where it is made: Alliston, Ontario and Greensburg, Indiana

    Honda's own Indiana plant page lists the Civic Hatchback, Civic Hatchback Hybrid, CR-V and CR-V Hybrid as built at Greensburg, Indiana. Honda also builds both models at Alliston, Ontario, where the 11 millionth Canadian-built Honda - a 2026 Civic Hybrid - came off the line in October 2025. Broadly the sedan is Ontario and the hatchback is Indiana, but Honda has been shifting Civic hybrid volume toward Indiana, so that split should not be relied on. Marked reported rather than verified because Honda's Canadian manufacturing page was unreachable when this was checked and only the US half is confirmed from Honda's own material.

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Not what you would guess
  • BMW

    X3, X5, X6, X7 and XM

    Source: press.bmwgroup.com · checked 2026-08-26

    Depends on the modelConfirmed by the maker

    Where it is made: Spartanburg, South Carolina

    BMW calls Spartanburg the "Home of X", and it is: the X3, X5, X6, X7 and XM are assembled in South Carolina, and BMW says the plant exported nearly 200,000 X models in 2025, making it the largest US automotive exporter by value. A BMW X5 bought in Canada is therefore very likely US-origin and surtaxed at 25%, while a 3 Series from Germany or Mexico is not. Marked mixed because BMW builds the X3 at more than one plant worldwide. The VIN settles it: a 5 means Spartanburg.

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  • Mercedes-Benz

    GLE, GLE Coupe, GLS, Maybach GLS, EQE SUV and EQS SUV

    Source: group.mercedes-benz.com · checked 2026-08-26

    Depends on the modelConfirmed by the maker

    Where it is made: Tuscaloosa, Alabama

    Mercedes-Benz says the GLE, GLE Coupe and GLS, the AMG variants and the Maybach GLS are assembled at Tuscaloosa for all global markets, along with the electric EQE and EQS SUVs. "For all global markets" is the phrase that matters - a GLE sold in Canada is an Alabama-built vehicle and is surtaxed. The new GLE and GLS had their world premiere at the Alabama plant in March 2026. Marked mixed because other Mercedes models are built in Germany and elsewhere and are unaffected.

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  • Honda

    Odyssey, Pilot, Passport and Ridgeline

    Source: manufacturing.honda.com · checked 2026-08-26

    Depends on the modelConfirmed by the maker

    Where it is made: Lincoln, Alabama

    Honda describes its Lincoln, Alabama plant as the exclusive production home of the Pilot and Passport, including TrailSport models, the Odyssey minivan and the Ridgeline pickup. Exclusive means there is no other source: if you are buying one of these four in Canada, it is US-origin and it is surtaxed. Marked mixed because it is a statement about four models, not about Honda - the Civic and CR-V in the same showroom may well be from Ontario.

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Cars & vehicles

Motorcycles, and why bicycles are not here

Exactly one motorcycle line was taken, and it is in the top band: 8711.50.00, petrol motorcycles over 800 cc, at 50%. Every other motorcycle line is absent. Under 800 cc is not on the list. Electric motorcycles and scooters, item 8711.60, are not on the list. Bicycles are not on the list at all - heading 8712 appears nowhere in the 648 items, and neither does 8714, which covers parts and accessories for both bicycles and motorcycles. The dividing line is engine displacement, and it lands squarely on the big-bore cruiser.

Motorcycles (including mopeds) with reciprocating internal combustion piston engine of a cylinder capacity exceeding 800 cc

50%
Tariff item behind this rate (1)
  • 8711.50.0050%With internal combustion piston engine of a cylinder capacity exceeding 800 cc

What people get wrong

The 50% is aimed at a US-origin product in a way most of this list is not. Large-displacement cruisers are the one motorcycle segment where American manufacturing is dominant, so unlike the console entry, here the rate will actually be felt. Two practical consequences. A big petrol bike may be surtaxed while the electric bike parked beside it is not on the list at all. And because 8714 is absent, parts, accessories and servicing components for that same surtaxed motorcycle are untouched - the tariff is on the machine, not on keeping it running.

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  • Devinci

    Aluminum mountain, gravel, city and electric bicycles

    Source: devinci.com · checked 2026-08-26

    Made in CanadaConfirmed by the maker

    Where it is made: Chicoutimi, Quebec

    Here because bicycles are the half of this entry that carries no surtax at all, and because this is the rare case where the Canadian option is a factory rather than a brand. Devinci states that it operates a 56,000 square foot facility in Chicoutimi, Quebec dedicated to aluminum frame manufacturing and complete bicycle assembly, with in-house frame welding and finishing, a capacity of up to 40,000 bicycles a year, and production powered by hydroelectricity. Its factory feature walks through the stages on the floor - tubes cut by CNC machining and laser, frames welded, heat treatment at 500 degrees to strengthen the aluminum, alignment in jigs, paint and cure, then two assembly lines - which is a good deal more than most companies publish about themselves. One limit: every one of those claims is about aluminum. The company describes itself as an aluminum frame manufacturer, and this row does not extend to its carbon line, which it does not say is built in Chicoutimi. Aluminum frame, Quebec. Carbon frame, not established here.

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Not what you would guess
  • Harley-Davidson

    Large-displacement cruisers and touring motorcycles

    Source: sec.gov · checked 2026-08-26

    Depends on the modelConfirmed by the maker

    Where it is made: York PA, plus Menomonee Falls and Tomahawk WI - and Rayong, Thailand for selected markets and models

    The company the 50% is actually pointed at, and the one place on this site where the brand is a reasonable first guess at origin - though still not a safe one. Harley publishes nothing usable about manufacturing on its own website; every about-page path tried here returns a 404. Its annual report to the SEC does, because Item 2 of a 10-K has to list the principal operating properties. As of 31 December 2025 those are: motorcycle parts fabrication, painting and assembly at York, Pennsylvania; powertrain production at Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin; components, parts and painting at Tomahawk, Wisconsin; motorcycle production for selected markets and models at Rayong, Thailand; and assembly for the Brazilian market at Manaus. So a big touring bike is very likely US-origin and squarely inside 8711.50.00 at 50%, but "selected markets and models" is the company's own phrase and it is doing real work - not every Harley is built in the United States, and the filing does not say which models are which. The other line in that filing is the sharper one. Harley states that LiveWire motorcycles and components are manufactured at its US manufacturing locations. LiveWire is electric, electric motorcycles are item 8711.60, and 8711.60 is not on the list. An American-built electric Harley carries no surtax while an American-built petrol one carries 50%.

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Clothing

Coats, suits, knitwear and everyday apparel.

Clothing

Coats, parkas and rain shells

The surtax is on the fabric, not on the coat. A parka with a nylon or polyester shell is 50%, and so is any garment made up of a coated, laminated or rubberised fabric - which is every rain shell and most technical outerwear, all six lines of heading 6210, protective suits included. Nine of the twenty-four apparel lines on the entire list are in this one entry, which makes the winter coat the most thoroughly covered garment Canada picked. The same coat cut in another fibre was left alone: wool overcoats, waxed-cotton field jackets and cotton duck work coats are all absent. So are knitted and crocheted coats and anoraks, headings 6101 and 6102, which is where a fleece jacket sits. And nothing else you would wear with the coat was taken - chapter 64 is empty from end to end, so winter boots are not on the list, and neither is chapter 65, which is hats.

Overcoats, car-coats, anoraks, wind-jackets and similar articles; garments made up of coated, laminated or rubberised fabrics

50%on synthetic and coated shells
Tariff items behind this rate (9)
  • 6201.40.1050%Men's or boys' overcoats and anoraks, of man-made fibres: Overcoats, raincoats, car-coats, capes, cloaks and similar articles
  • 6201.40.9050%Men's or boys' overcoats and anoraks, of man-made fibres: Other
  • 6202.40.0050%Women's or girls' overcoats and anoraks: Of man-made fibres
  • 6210.20.1050%Garments of coated, laminated or rubberised fabric, of the type described in heading 62,01: Protective suits, to be employed in a noxious atmosphere
  • 6210.20.9050%Garments of coated, laminated or rubberised fabric, of the type described in heading 62,01: Other
  • 6210.40.1050%Garments of coated, laminated or rubberised fabric, other men's or boys' garments: Protective suits, to be employed in a noxious atmosphere
  • 6210.40.9050%Garments of coated, laminated or rubberised fabric, other men's or boys' garments: Other
  • 6210.50.1050%Garments of coated, laminated or rubberised fabric, other women's or girls' garments: Protective suits, to be employed in a noxious atmosphere
  • 6210.50.9050%Garments of coated, laminated or rubberised fabric, other women's or girls' garments: Other

Why it is widely believed otherwise

This is the rare entry where the headline is broadly right and the correction runs the other way. People reasonably conclude that outerwear was hit, and it was. What gets missed is how narrow the fibre test is, and that the wool overcoat, the waxed cotton jacket, the fleece, the boots and the toque standing beside the surtaxed nylon parka were all passed over.

What people get wrong

This is the one apparel category where Canada still manufactures at real scale, and it is also the category the tariff hits hardest, which is a better coincidence than this site usually gets to report. Read both Canadian rows for their qualifiers rather than their headlines, because both carry one. Canada Goose commits to keeping production of its core down-filled jackets in Canada - core down-filled jackets, not the whole collection, and the knitwear and some lighter styles are outside that sentence. Quartz Co. says its winter jackets are made at its Montreal facility, and on the same page says that for certain specialized items Canadian production is not always the best option and it uses international partners it does not name. Both statements are honest and both mean the label on the specific coat is worth reading. On the American side, we could not find a mainstream US-made parka to warn you about. The only US outerwear maker we could source and verify is a small Minnesota workshop. That is an absence of evidence and not evidence of absence, but a 50% surtax on synthetic outerwear may route around very little at the mass-market end, because the mass market makes its coats in Asia.

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  • Canada Goose

    Down parkas and core down-filled jackets

    Source: newswire.ca · checked 2026-08-26

    Made in CanadaConfirmed by the maker

    Where it is made: Winnipeg, the Greater Toronto Area, Boisbriand and Montreal

    Read the date on this one. The source is a Canada Goose press release from February 2019, not the company site today: canadagoose.com returned 429 Too Many Requests to three separate attempts on 26 August 2026, so its current wording was not read. What the 2019 release states directly is eight wholly-owned manufacturing facilities in Canada - three in Winnipeg, three in the Greater Toronto Area, one in Boisbriand and the new one in Montreal - and a commitment to keep production of its core down-filled jackets in Canada. Note the qualifier the company chose: core down-filled jackets. It is not a claim about the whole collection, and knitwear and some lighter styles are not covered by it.

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  • Quartz Co.

    Down winter jackets and parkas

    Source: quartz-co.com · checked 2026-08-26

    Made in CanadaConfirmed by the maker

    Where it is made: Montreal, Quebec

    Its own supply-chain page says that since its inception it has produced Quartz Co. winter jackets locally, from the first factory in Saint-Hyacinthe to the Montreal facility today. That is a specific claim about the winter jacket, and it is the reason this row is scoped to the jacket rather than to the brand: the same page says that for certain specialized items Canadian-based production is not always the best option, and that those go to international partners certified to BSCI or WRAP. It does not name a country for them. The brand also presents itself as Designed in Canada, which is a weaker claim than the supply-chain page actually supports for the parkas.

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Not what you would guess
  • Wintergreen Northern Wear

    Anoraks and winter shells

    Source: wintergreennorthernwear.com · checked 2026-08-26

    Depends on the modelConfirmed by the maker

    Where it is made: Minnesota

    The only US-made parka this site could actually source, and it is a dogsledding outfitter in Ely rather than a brand you would meet in a mall. Its own product page says the anorak is designed, cut and sewn in MN and that nothing is made overseas, and it gives the shell as three-ply Supplex nylon - which is what puts it in 6201.40 at 50% rather than in one of the cotton or wool lines that were passed over. Marked mixed because that is the closest status this site has for a wholly US-made good; the page names the state rather than a plant. If you want the point of this row rather than the product: the fibre on the spec sheet decides the tariff, and two visually identical anoraks can land on opposite sides of it.

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Clothing

Suits, blazers and dress trousers

Three lines, and all three end with the same four words: of wool or fine animal hair. A wool suit is 50%, a wool blazer is 50%, wool dress trousers are 50%, and that is the entire reach of this tariff into a menswear department. Heading 6203 holds eleven other subheadings and not one of them was taken. The cotton trousers line, 6203.42, is where jeans and chinos live, and it is absent. So is 6203.12, the synthetic suit, which means the same suit cut in a polyester blend costs exactly what it did before. Men's shirts are a heading of their own, 6205, and the whole heading is absent; so is 6215, neckties. You can be surtaxed on the jacket and the trousers and pay nothing extra on the shirt, the tie, or the jeans you would have worn instead.

Men's or boys' suits, ensembles, jackets, blazers, trousers, bib and brace overalls, breeches and shorts (other than swimwear)

50%on wool
Tariff items behind this rate (3)
  • 6203.11.0050%Suits: Of wool or fine animal hair
  • 6203.31.0050%Jackets and blazers: Of wool or fine animal hair
  • 6203.41.0050%Trousers, bib and brace overalls, breeches and shorts: Of wool or fine animal hair

Why it is widely believed otherwise

Because a wool suit and a 50% rate both read as the expensive end of the wardrobe, so the rule looks like it is about price. It is not price and it is not the garment - it is the fibre, and only inside this heading. The knitwear entry on this site shows the same fibre test running backwards, with the cotton T-shirt taken and the wool sweater left. Both are true at once, which is the honest answer: there is no rule to learn here, only lines to look up.

What people get wrong

Tailored clothing is the second place on this list where Canada still has factories, and the first two names that matter turn out to be one company. Samuelsohn has made suits in Montreal since 1923, and in 2013 it bought Hickey Freeman outright, including - in the words of its own press release - the legendary Rochester factory. The parent is Canadian and it runs a plant on each side of the border, so whether your suit is surtaxed is decided by which building sewed it rather than by whose name is on the label. Neither company states its manufacturing location anywhere on its current website; both landing pages were read on 26 August 2026 and neither mentions where anything is made. That is why both rows below are reported rather than verified. Samuelsohn rests on a first-hand factory tour published by Harry Rosen, and Hickey Freeman on Samuelsohn's own press release, which is thirteen years old and establishes that the factory was bought, not that it is running today. Coppley is the exception, and the reason this entry changed on 26 August 2026: its site refused twice before it loaded, and when it did it stated Canadian manufacture in its own voice on its own front page, with no quantifier narrowing it. It is the only verified Canadian row here. It still does not name the building, which is a smaller and different gap.

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  • Samuelsohn

    Suits, sport coats and tailored trousers

    Source: harryrosen.com · checked 2026-08-26

    Made in CanadaReported by a third party

    Where it is made: Montreal, Quebec

    The strongest Canadian answer in the entry and still only reported, because samuelsohn.com does not say on its own site where the clothes are made. What exists instead is a first-hand factory visit published by Harry Rosen, with a photographer, describing suits and tailoring being made at the Montreal factory across fifteen operations and 359 pairs of hands. A national retailer walking through the building and photographing it is credible third-party sourcing, which is exactly what reported means here. Upgrade this row if the company ever states it directly.

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  • Coppley

    Custom and made-to-measure suits, jackets and trousers

    Source: coppley.com · checked 2026-08-26

    Made in CanadaConfirmed by the maker

    Where it is made: Canada - the company does not name the factory

    The Canadian row this entry was missing, added after coppley.com refused two earlier attempts and loaded on the third. What it says is unusually direct for this site: Proudly Canadian Made on the front page, Canadian made since 1883 in its own page description, and an about page stating that the company consolidated the brands manufactured in Canada under the Coppley name. That is the manufacturer speaking with nothing narrowing it, which is why this row is verified where Samuelsohn is only reported. One limit: Coppley names no factory anywhere on the site. The only Hamilton, Ontario address on it is the contact address at 107 MacNab Street, and a contact address is an address and not a plant - the same reading that kept Lamson out of the cutlery entry. The country is verified here. The building is not.

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Not what you would guess
  • Hickey Freeman

    Wool suits and sport coats

    Source: prnewswire.com · checked 2026-08-26

    Depends on the modelReported by a third party

    Where it is made: Rochester, New York

    The mirror of the Samuelsohn row, and owned by it. Samuelsohn of Montreal announced in October 2013 that it had acquired all of Hickey Freeman's tangible assets including the Rochester factory, which the release describes as a 210,000-square-foot building. A wool Hickey Freeman suit made there is squarely in 6203.11 at 50%. Two reasons this is only reported: the source is thirteen years old and says the plant was purchased rather than that it is producing now, and hickeyfreeman.com states nothing about manufacturing location anywhere on its landing page. If you are buying a tailored suit this autumn, this is the row where asking the shop which factory it came from is a question with money attached.

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Clothing

Dresses and womenswear

The fibre decides, and almost nothing else does. Knitted dresses of synthetic fibres are 6104.43.00 at 50%, and knitted trousers, shorts and overalls of synthetic fibres are 6104.63.00, also 50%. On the woven side, dresses of synthetic fibres are 6204.43.00 at 50% and dresses of other textile materials are 6204.49.00, also 50%. Knitted gloves of synthetic fibres are 6116.93.00 at 50%. That is the whole of the womenswear presence on this list, and every one of those lines is a synthetic or residual fibre line. The absences are what makes the pattern visible. Blouses and shirts, knitted at 61.06 and woven at 62.06, are not on the list at all. Slips, nightdresses and pyjamas at 61.08 are not. Brassieres, girdles and corsets at 62.12 are not. Hosiery and tights at 61.15 are not. So a synthetic dress is surtaxed and a synthetic blouse is not; a pair of synthetic knit trousers is surtaxed and a pair of tights is not. Cotton dresses of the knitted kind are absent too, because 6104.42 was not taken - but a woven dress of any material other than synthetic is caught by 6204.49.00, which is a residual line and therefore catches wool, linen and silk alike. The garment type and the construction and the fibre all matter, in combinations no label explains.

Women's or girls' dresses, trousers and shorts of synthetic fibres, knitted or woven; gloves of synthetic fibres

50%on synthetic-fibre dresses and trousers
Tariff items behind this rate (5)
  • 6104.43.0050%Dresses: Of synthetic fibres
  • 6104.63.0050%Trousers, bib and brace overalls, breeches and shorts: Of synthetic fibres
  • 6204.43.0050%Dresses: Of synthetic fibres
  • 6204.49.0050%Dresses: Of other textile materials
  • 6116.93.0050%Other: Of synthetic fibres

Why it is widely believed otherwise

Because clothing was named as a targeted sector and clothing is an obvious consumer category, and because nothing on a garment tag maps onto the distinctions this list actually draws. A shopper can read a composition label and still not know whether the item is in a taken line, because the answer depends on whether the garment is knitted or woven, what category of garment it is, and which fibre - and the list took some combinations and left others. This is the same pattern as the knitwear entry on this site, where some sweater lines are at 50% and others are absent.

What people get wrong

This is one of the better categories on the site for Canadian answers, because small-batch Canadian womenswear is a real industry with companies that publish exactly where their clothes are sewn. Miik is the strongest of them: it says on its own site that it produces everything locally in Toronto, Canada, all within 50 kilometres of its office, that it oversees every step of the production process, and that this is deliberate support for the Canadian textile industry. That is a manufacturing claim with a radius attached to it, which is more than almost any company on this site publishes. Encircled makes a comparable claim - proudly designed and sewn in Canada, in small batches, from a certified B Corporation based in Toronto. Both are direct-to-consumer, both are priced accordingly, and both make the kind of garment this entry is actually about: knit dresses, trousers and layering pieces. The general caution about clothing applies here as everywhere. Most apparel sold in Canada under any brand is made in Asia, which puts it outside these measures regardless of the logo, and the American-made garment is the exception rather than the rule. The 50% matters most for the mid-market and premium American labels that do still cut and sew domestically.

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What to buy instead
  • Miik

    Knit dresses, trousers, tops and layering pieces

    Source: miik.ca · checked 2026-08-26

    Made in CanadaConfirmed by the maker

    Where it is made: Toronto, Ontario

    The most specific manufacturing claim of any clothing company on this site. Miik states that it produces everything locally in Toronto, Canada, all within 50 kilometres of its office, that it oversees every step of the production process, and that keeping production local both supports the Canadian textile industry and lets it maintain an ethical manufacturing process where every hand involved is paid fairly. A radius is an unusual thing for a brand to publish and it is much harder to say loosely than "designed in Canada". The product range - knit dresses, trousers, tops - sits squarely on the lines this entry covers at 50%, which makes it a direct substitution rather than an approximate one. Sizing runs petite through plus.

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  • Encircled

    Versatile dresses, trousers and travel-oriented layering

    Source: encircled.ca · checked 2026-08-26

    Made in CanadaConfirmed by the maker

    Where it is made: Canada, small batches; based in Toronto, Ontario

    The second Toronto answer in this category and a similar proposition. Encircled states on its own site that it is proudly designed and sewn in Canada in small batches, with a focus on quality, sustainably sourced fabrics and low-impact production, and that it is a certified B Corporation and woman-owned. "Designed and sewn in Canada" is the phrase that matters - designed on its own would not be enough here, and this site has turned down rows for exactly that reason. The range leans toward multi-way and travel pieces, which lands on the knitted dress and trouser lines this entry covers.

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Clothing

T-shirts, sweaters and knitwear

Three lines out of an entire drawer. The cotton T-shirt is 50%, the cotton sweater is 50%, the synthetic sweater is 50%, and almost everything else was left where it was. The omission worth remembering is 6109.90, the T-shirt of any other textile material, which is where the polyester athletic tee sits - it is not on the list. The same shirt costs 50% more in cotton and nothing more in polyester. Wool went untouched here too: 6110.11 and 6110.12 are wool and cashmere sweaters, both absent, while the cotton and man-made lines immediately beside them were taken. Absent as whole headings: knitted shirts and blouses, underwear and sleepwear, babies' garments, swimwear and knitted track suits, socks and tights, and bras and corsetry.

T-shirts, singlets and other vests, knitted or crocheted; jerseys, pullovers, cardigans, waistcoats and similar articles, knitted or crocheted

50%on some lines
Tariff items behind this rate (3)
  • 6109.10.0050%T-shirts, singlets and other vests, knitted or crocheted: Of cotton
  • 6110.20.0050%Jerseys, pullovers, cardigans and waistcoats, knitted or crocheted: Of cotton
  • 6110.30.0050%Jerseys, pullovers, cardigans and waistcoats, knitted or crocheted: Of man-made fibres

Why it is widely believed otherwise

Because by the time a reader reaches this entry they have usually built a rule, and the rule is wrong. The suits entry shows wool taken and cotton passed over. This one shows cotton taken and wool passed over. Both are accurate readings of the same list, which is the point: the lines were picked one at a time, and a pattern that holds in heading 6203 reverses in 6109 and 6110. The only reliable method is to find the specific line.

What people get wrong

Two Canadian answers here, and both are factories rather than brands with a maple leaf on the packaging - not something this site gets to say often. Province of Canada is the unambiguous one and states the strongest claim on this entire site: all of its products are 100% made in Canada, with T-shirts and sweaters named in that sentence. It does not name a city or a plant, which is the one thing missing from it. Stanfield's has knit, cut and sewn in Truro, Nova Scotia since the 1870s, but read its wording rather than its reputation - it says many of our products, not all, and it goes on to acknowledge that some items produced for U.S.-based retailers operating in Canada are imported. Its own T-shirt collection carries a Made in Canada filter, which is the company telling you plainly that the collection holds both kinds. For this category, more than any other on the site, the answer is on the label of the individual shirt rather than in the name of the brand.

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  • Province of Canada

    T-shirts, sweatshirts and sweaters

    Source: provinceofcanada.com · checked 2026-08-26

    Made in CanadaConfirmed by the maker

    Where it is made: Canada - city not stated

    The flattest made-in-Canada claim this site has recorded. Its own page says all of its products are 100% made in Canada, and repeats it as a commitment - as long as Province of Canada is Province of Canada, the products will be 100% made in Canada - with T-shirts and sweaters named explicitly. There is no hedge in it, which is unusual. The one gap is that the page names no city and no factory, so the claim is verified as to country and unverified as to where. Cotton tees and cotton sweaters are exactly the lines that were taken, so this is a direct answer rather than a consolation prize.

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  • Stanfield's

    T-shirts, base layers and underwear

    Source: stanfields.com · checked 2026-08-26

    Made in CanadaConfirmed by the maker

    Where it is made: Truro, Nova Scotia

    Its own site says that from the factory in Truro, Nova Scotia it designs, knits, cuts and sews many of its products - many, not all - and then does something most brands do not, which is name the exception: some items produced for U.S.-based retailers operating in Canada are imported. The T-shirt collection on the same site carries a Made in Canada filter covering part of the range, so the company is being explicit that both kinds sit side by side. Scoped and verified rather than downgraded, because the Canadian manufacturing is stated plainly; the caution is about which item you pick, not about whether the factory exists. The underwear and base layers Stanfield's is best known for are not on the tariff list at all - headings 6107 and 6108 are absent - so the surtax only reaches the T-shirts.

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Not what you would guess
  • American Giant

    Cotton T-shirts and sweatshirts

    Source: american-giant.com · checked 2026-08-26

    Depends on the modelConfirmed by the maker

    Where it is made: North Carolina

    The brand whose whole identity is American manufacturing, making the two garments Canada actually taxed. Its own page names Eagle Sportswear in North Carolina as the plant where many of its garments are brought to life - many, which is why this is marked mixed rather than treated as uniformly US-made, and the page does not break down which items. A heavyweight cotton tee is 6109.10 and a cotton sweatshirt is 6110.20, both at 50%, so this is one of the few places on the list where a well-known consumer brand is squarely exposed. Nothing here is a criticism of the product; it is where the 50% will actually show up on a receipt.

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Food & groceries

Seafood, dairy, and what is and is not on the list at the supermarket.

Food & groceries

Fish and seafood, and the block that came off the list

Nothing now, and that is new. Until 26 August 2026 chapter 3 was the largest single block on this list: all nine of its headings - live fish, fresh and chilled fish, frozen fish, fillets and other fish meat, dried and salted and smoked fish, crustaceans, molluscs, other aquatic invertebrates, and the flours and meals made from any of them - across 254 tariff items, every one of them at 25%, with no carve-outs and no split bands anywhere in it. That was 28% of the 893 items the list then held. The version of the list the Department of Finance published on 26 August 2026, still effective 8 September 2026, does not contain chapter 3 at all. Not one of its 648 tariff items is a fish. The nine headings came off together, exactly as they had gone on together. Nothing else was re-rated in the same republication: it removed those 254 items, added nine - wood charcoal, printed pictures, plaster board, glass packing containers and four lines of copper wire - and changed no rate anywhere on the list. The other half of this entry has not moved, because it was always an absence. Heading 16.04, prepared or preserved fish including caviar, and 16.05, prepared crustaceans and molluscs, have never been on this list. So a fish counter now reads the same at both ends: the US-caught frozen cod fillet and the US-made can of tuna are both off the list, and the reason is different at each end.

Live, fresh, chilled, frozen, dried, salted and smoked fish; fillets; crustaceans; molluscs; aquatic invertebrates

Not on the listThese goods do not appear on the official tariff-item list.

Why it is widely believed otherwise

Because until 26 August 2026 it was true, and it was the single biggest fact on the list. Seafood was more than a quarter of the whole measure by count, and anyone who read the list in the week it was published - this site included, which carried fish as a 25% category until 27 August 2026 - would have told you that American fish was surtaxed. The Department of Finance page is the authority, it is republished in place with no changelog, and the only way to learn that it has moved is to read it again and compare it with what it said before. That is what happened here, and the before and after are both kept so this is checkable rather than asserted: the list as it stood at 893 items is archived from a capture taken on 26 August 2026, and the 648-item list that replaced it was read on 27 August 2026.

What people get wrong

The row below is kept although nothing in this category is tariffed, because the question it answers did not go away with the tariff, and the answer is a useful caution about wording. Canada is a large seafood exporter rather than an importer of American fish - the trade in this category runs substantially the other way, and much of what sits on a Canadian counter is Canadian, or from a third country, in the first place. The Canadian name most likely to be on a freezer pack is High Liner Foods, and it is the clearest case on this site of how carefully a self-description has to be read. The company is headquartered at Battery Point in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, and describes itself as a leading North American processor and marketer of value-added frozen seafood, selling throughout the United States and Canada. North American, not Canadian - the same phrase that appears on this site under fasteners, and ambiguous in the same direction, because under these tariffs North America includes the country the tariffs are about. The company does not publish which of its plants makes which product. That ambiguity costs a shopper nothing under this measure as it now stands, which is the reason to keep it in view rather than to drop it: the list moved once inside a week, and it can still be amended.

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Not what you would guess
  • High Liner Foods

    Frozen breaded and battered fish, fillets and seafood entrees

    Source: highlinerfoods.com · checked 2026-08-26

    Origin unconfirmedReported by a third party

    Where it is made: Not stated by plant. Headquartered in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia; describes itself as a North American processor

    The Canadian seafood name most people can picture, and a row that has to say it does not know. High Liner is headquartered in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, which is about as Maritime a corporate address as exists, and its own company overview describes it as a leading North American processor and marketer of value-added frozen seafood whose retail brands sell throughout the United States and Canada. Every part of that is a claim about the continent rather than the country, and the overview does not say which plant makes which product. That distinction is the one this site keeps running into - it is the same wording problem as Leland Industries under fasteners - and it matters here because the company sells on both sides of a border where one side is now surtaxed. Marked reported rather than verified because what the company states is a general description of its business, not a claim about where a given pack was made. Note also that nothing in this category is on the list as it was republished on 26 August 2026, and that the breaded and prepared products this company mostly sells sit in heading 16.04, which was never on it.

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Food & groceries

Dairy, eggs and honey

The dairy case was split, and the line runs through the middle of it in a way no shopper would guess. Cheese and curd, heading 04.06, is 25% across all 34 of its tariff items. Milk and cream that has been concentrated or sweetened - heading 04.02, which is evaporated milk, condensed milk and milk powder - is 50%. Whey, heading 04.04, is 50%, and that is the heading protein powder is made from. Natural honey, 04.09, is a single tariff item and it is 50%. Now the absences, and they are most of the aisle. Heading 04.01 is milk and cream that has not been concentrated and has no added sugar - which is to say, ordinary milk and cream - and it is not on the list. Heading 04.03, yogurt, buttermilk, kefir and other fermented milk, is not on the list. Heading 04.05, butter and dairy spreads, is not on the list. Headings 04.07 and 04.08, eggs in shell and eggs out of shell, are not on the list. So the jug of milk is untouched and the tin of evaporated milk beside it is 50%. The difference between them is water. Butter is untouched, cheese is 25%, and yogurt is untouched, and all three are made from the milk that is itself untouched. There is no principle in that a shopper could apply; there is only which heading a product was classified in.

Milk and cream, concentrated or sweetened; whey; cheese and curd; natural honey

25%on cheese, 50% on milk powder, whey and honey
Tariff items behind this rate (10)
  • 0402.10.1050%In powder, granules or other solid forms, of a fat content, by weight, not exceeding 1,5%: Within access commitment
  • 0402.10.2050%In powder, granules or other solid forms, of a fat content, by weight, not exceeding 1,5%: Over access commitment
  • 0402.21.1150%In powder, granules or other solid forms, of a fat content, by weight, exceeding 1,5%: Not containing added sugar or other sweeten
  • 0404.10.1050%Whey and modified whey, whether or not concentrated or containing added sugar or other sweetening matter: Whey protein concentrate
  • 0404.10.2150%Whey and modified whey, whether or not concentrated or containing added sugar or other sweetening matter: Powdered whey: Within ac
  • 0406.10.1025%Fresh (unripened or uncured) cheese, including whey cheese, and curd: Within access commitment
  • 0406.10.2025%Fresh (unripened or uncured) cheese, including whey cheese, and curd: Over access commitment
  • 0406.20.1125%Grated or powdered cheese, of all kinds: Cheddar and Cheddar types: Within access commitment
  • 0406.20.1225%Grated or powdered cheese, of all kinds: Cheddar and Cheddar types: Over access commitment
  • 0409.00.0050%Natural honey

What people get wrong

Dairy is the one category on this site where the answer to "what should I buy instead" is mostly already decided before you get to the shelf. Canadian dairy operates under supply management - a federal system of production quotas and tariff-rate quotas on imports - which is the reason most fluid milk, cream, butter and yogurt on a Canadian shelf is domestic. That is a description of the policy, not a measurement of any particular shelf, and it is offered as context rather than as a checked claim in the sense the origin rows below are checked. So for the bulk of this aisle the surtax has little to bite on: the milk is Canadian, and in any case ordinary milk is not on the list. The places where exposure is real are the ones people do not think of as dairy. Whey at 50% is the base of most protein powder, and the sports nutrition aisle sources far more freely across the border than the milk case does. Milk powder and evaporated milk at 50% turn up as ingredients as much as products. And honey at 50% is a single tariff item on a product where imports are common and country of origin on the jar is often a blend. If you are checking one thing in this category, check the protein powder and the honey, not the milk.

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  • Gay Lea Foods

    Butter, cottage cheese, sour cream, whipped cream and fluid milk

    Source: gaylea.com · checked 2026-08-26

    Made in CanadaReported by a third party

    Where it is made: Canada - a farmer-owned co-operative, Ontario-based

    A Canadian farmer-owned dairy co-operative, and a straightforward answer in a category where the answer is usually straightforward anyway. Its own site describes it as a Canadian, farmer-owned co-operative supporting Canadian dairy farming families, and announces a $200 million investment in a facility expansion to increase the availability of cottage cheese for Canadian consumers - which is a company describing building capacity in Canada rather than an address on a contact page. Marked reported rather than verified for a narrow reason: those are general statements about a Canadian co-operative and Canadian investment, not a product-by-product manufacturing claim, and this site keeps its confidence values tied to the specificity of what was actually published. In practice the structural fact does more work here than any company claim - supply management means the butter in a Canadian shop is very likely Canadian regardless of brand, and butter is not on the tariff list in the first place.

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Food & groceries

The rest of the grocery store

What is on the list here is small and specific. Heading 19.01 - malt extract, and food preparations of flour, groats, meal, starch or malt extract - is 50% across eleven tariff items. That heading is broader than it sounds: it is where baking mixes, some breakfast preparations and certain infant formulas are classified. Heading 17.03, molasses from the extraction or refining of sugar, is 50% across four items. That is the whole of the grocery store on this list outside dairy. What is absent is very nearly everything else, and it is worth listing because the absences are what a shopper actually needs. Meat, chapter 2, is not on the list - not beef, not poultry, not pork. Vegetables, chapter 7, are not. Fruit and nuts, chapter 8, are not. Coffee, tea and spices, chapter 9, are not. Cereals including wheat and rice, chapter 10, are not. Flour and starches, chapter 11, are not. Fats and oils, chapter 15, are not. Prepared meat and fish, chapter 16, is not - which is where canned tuna and deli meat sit. Cocoa and chocolate, chapter 18, is not. Prepared fruit and vegetables, chapter 20, is not. Miscellaneous food preparations, chapter 21 - sauces, soups, condiments - is not. And chapter 22, beverages, spirits and vinegar, is not on the list at all, which means wine, beer and spirits are not covered by this measure at all. That one is worth pausing on, because you may well have seen wine on a list of tariffed goods and been right to. There are two sets of tariffs running at once and they are easy to mistake for each other. The United States has imposed tariffs on goods entering the US from Canada, and Canadian wine is on that list - the wire story that ran under headlines about honey and hockey sticks was describing that measure. This site is about the other direction: Canada's counter-tariffs on goods of US origin entering Canada. Chapter 22 does not appear on the Canadian list, so a bottle of American wine, beer or bourbon does not carry this surtax. Canadian wine going south is a different question with a different answer, and not one this site covers. A shopper walking the perimeter of a supermarket - produce, meat, bakery - passes almost nothing on this list. The exposure is in the aisles, and it is narrow.

Malt extract and food preparations of flour, groats, meal, starch or malt extract; molasses from the extraction or refining of sugar

50%on molasses and flour-based food preparations
Tariff items behind this rate (6)
  • 1901.20.1150%Mixes and doughs for the preparation of bakers' wares of heading 19,05: In packages of a weight not exceeding 11,34 kg each: Cont
  • 1901.20.1250%Mixes and doughs for the preparation of bakers' wares of heading 19,05: In packages of a weight not exceeding 11,34 kg each: Cont
  • 1901.20.1350%Mixes and doughs for the preparation of bakers' wares of heading 19,05: In packages of a weight not exceeding 11,34 kg each: Othe
  • 1901.20.1450%Mixes and doughs for the preparation of bakers' wares of heading 19,05: In packages of a weight not exceeding 11,34 kg each: Othe
  • 1703.10.1050%Cane molasses: Powder with admixture other than colouring or anti-caking agents
  • 1703.10.9050%Cane molasses: Other

Why it is widely believed otherwise

Because "counter-tariffs on American goods" sounds like it must reach the weekly shop, and because several published guides listed groceries in general terms without checking which headings were taken. Wine is the clearest case, and the reason is not carelessness by anyone - it is that two sets of tariffs are in force at the same time and coverage of them looks identical at a glance. The United States tariffed a long list of Canadian goods, wine among them, and that story ran widely under headlines about honey and hockey sticks. Canada then announced counter-tariffs on US goods, which is this list, and chapter 22 is not on it. Both stories are about tariffs, both are about Canada and the United States, and only one of them is about what a Canadian shopper pays. Meat is the second clearest case, and that one is simpler: it is not on either version of this list and never was. The measure was heavily concentrated in seafood and dairy until 26 August 2026, when chapter 3 came off the list entirely and left dairy on its own; outside that one chapter it barely touches food at all.

What people get wrong

This entry is mostly an argument for not worrying, so the origin question matters less than usual - if a product is not on the list, where it was made does not change what the surtax does to it, which is nothing. The two lines that are on the list are worth a note each. Molasses is not a Canadian crop: it is a by-product of sugar refining, and Canada refines imported raw sugar rather than growing cane. So a Canadian molasses brand is a Canadian company processing and packing a product whose raw material came from somewhere warmer, and Crosby Foods in Saint John, New Brunswick is the name most Canadians would recognise - fifth-generation, family owned, describing itself as proudly Canadian since 1879 and as a Canadian food manufacturer. Flour-based preparations at 19.01 are a wide heading with no single Canadian answer, and the one part of it worth real attention is infant formula, where the supply is concentrated in very few manufacturers and substitution is not a casual decision. If a formula matters to your household, check the tin rather than the category.

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  • Crosby Foods

    Fancy and cooking molasses

    Source: crosbys.com · checked 2026-08-26

    Depends on the modelReported by a third party

    Where it is made: Saint John, New Brunswick - from raw molasses sourced abroad

    The Canadian answer on the one grocery line most likely to catch a home baker, and a row that has to be careful about what "Canadian" covers. Crosby describes itself on its own site as proudly Canadian since 1879, fifth generation and family owned, and as one of Canada's most trusted food companies and a family-owned food manufacturer; its community pages place it in Saint John, New Brunswick. What no Canadian molasses brand can claim is a Canadian raw material, because molasses is a by-product of refining sugar cane and Canada does not grow it. So the company, the plant and the jobs are Canadian and the sugar is not, which is why this is marked mixed rather than made in Canada. Marked reported rather than verified because the statements found were about the company and its history rather than an explicit description of where the product is processed and packed. As a practical matter the tariff line only bites on molasses of US origin, and molasses refined in Canada from imported raw stock is not that.

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