Amendments to US Surtax Remission Order & Steel Derivatives Surtax Order

The Government of Canada has amended the United States Surtax Remission Order (2025) effective June 22nd, 2026.  

The United States Surtax Remission Order (2025) is a Canadian regulation (SOR/2025-122) that provides relief from certain retaliatory surtaxes (tariffs) that Canada imposed on imports from the United States in 2025. 

Amendments to the United States Surtax Remission Order (2025) 

The Order has been amended in the following manner:  

• Additional products have been added to schedules 2, 3, 4, and 4.1, further to an assessment of a fourth tranche of remission requests received by the Department of Finance. 

• Horizontal relief, which had been set to expire on June 30th, 2026, has been extended to June 30th, 2027, for the following:  

• Aluminum and steel goods and motor vehicles used for public health, health care, public safety and national security purposes under Section 1 and 2;  

• Aluminum goods used for manufacturing, processing, food and beverage packaging or agricultural production under Section 3; and,  

• Aluminum and steel goods used for the manufacturing of motor vehicles, aerospace products, and their related parts under Section 3.1.  

• Remission has been extended to a range of steel mill products, listed in Schedule 6, that have been determined not to be made in Canada. 

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

• Products listed in Schedules 1, 2, 5 and 6 and Section 4.3 are subject to broad remission for all importers, indefinitely from the time the tariffs came into effect. 

• Products listed in Schedule 3 are subject to broad remission for all importers, from the time the tariffs came into effect until the date specified in column 3. 

• Products listed in Schedule 4 are subject to remission by a specified importer listed in column 1 (according to business number) and subject to any other applicable condition listed in column 4, from entry into force of the tariffs until September 1st, 2025.  

• Products listed in Schedule 4.1 are subject to remission by a specified importer listed in column 1 (according to business number), during the period specified in column 4, and subject to any other applicable condition listed in column 5. 

The full text of the remission order can be found here. 

Steel Derivative Goods Surtax Order  

The Canadian Government also advised that the Steel Derivative Goods Surtax Order has been amended to extend the exemption for auto and aerospace inputs to June 30th, 2027. Similar to the Order amending the US Surtax Remission Order, the amendment will be published in the Canada Gazette, Part II on July 1st, 2026. 

For more information on Canada’s tariff and remission policies, you can visit the Department of Finance Canada’s website. 

 

Delmar will continue to provide pertinent updates as they become available.  

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