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Is clothing tariffed in Canada?

Coats, suits, knitwear and everyday apparel. Each of the 4 entries below is checked item by item against the Department of Finance list of 648 U.S. products subject to Canada's counter-tariffs, in force since September 8, 2026. Rates as of September 10, 2026.

A US brand is not the same thing as a US-origin good. These surtaxes apply to goods by country of origin. They do not apply to companies. An American brand manufacturing in Mexico is not covered; a German or Korean brand manufacturing in Tennessee is.

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.

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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  • 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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