Which product categories are on the Canada tariff lists

Josh Hume · 30 July 2026, updated 31 October 2026 · Duty Diligence

Updated 31 October 2026. The lists changed again on 30 October and now run to 744 lines. Carpets, shampoo, toilet soap, some paints, chest freezers and electric hand tools went on, so soap has moved out of the "not on the lists" table below. Plywood, corrugated cartons, plastic film and bags came off. The tables are updated.

Updated 5 October 2026. The lists changed on 15 September, and cheese and upholstered wooden seats, which were off the lists when I first wrote this, are now on them. The duty started on 22 August, not 19 August, and from 29 September packaged beer, wine and spirits, whey and some other lines cannot be imported at all. Section 232 goods are exempt on the dairy list only.

The 3 proclamations of 23 July, as changed on 15 September and 30 October, name 744 tariff lines of Canadian origin. Each one carries an additional 50% duty from 22 August 2026, or from the date it joined a list, whether or not the goods qualify under USMCA. Most sellers do not need all 744. They need to know whether the thing they sell is in scope at all.

Below is that reading, by category. Every code links to the checker, and the general list runs to 591 lines, so treat the codes as examples within a category rather than the whole of it.

On the lists

Not on the lists

These are the ones sellers assume are in scope and are not, as machine-read from the annexes and checked against the text of all 3.

Off the lists since 30 October

The beauty pair is the one worth sitting with. Lip, eye and nail make-up are on the general list and a moisturiser is not, so a brand selling both is half in scope and half out, on the same shelf and the same shipment.

Before you act on any of this

The category is not the classification. The line your goods actually enter under is the one that counts, and 2 products that look the same in a catalogue can sit on different lines. Energy, potash, fish and certain critical minerals are out of scope, and so are Section 232-covered goods on the dairy list (on the other two lists both duties apply), so a line appearing here does not settle it either.

The checker takes 6, 8 or 10 digit codes and says which list a line sits on. The rate table shows what the duty is today on 100 or so common lines by origin, with the assumptions under each number.

There is a timing trap in this one worth knowing before you plan around the date. The duty attaches on customs entry rather than despatch, and none of the 3 proclamations contains an exception for goods already in transit, so a shipment that left Canada before the start date and cleared after it still carried the duty. That is set out in the note on what changes.

The lists and the rates both move

This action was published on 23 July and applied from 22 August, after a three-day suspension. That was 30 days of notice, and only to people who happened to be reading the Federal Register that week. The 30 October change gave 7. In the last 6 months 3 separate US tariff regimes have been struck down, expired or created. A line that is clear today can be on a list next month, and the rate on a line you have already checked can move without the line itself changing at all.

Doing that check across a whole catalogue, twice a day, is the job Duty Diligence does. It reads the cost, HS code and country of origin already held in a Shopify store, shows the effective duty and the landed margin for every variant, and flags the ones that changed since yesterday. The snapshot is free and needs no card. I am also happy to answer questions about any single line if one of these is behaving oddly.

Sources: Federal Register documents 2026-14991 (alcoholic beverages), 2026-14992 (dairy) and 2026-14997 (general goods), published 23 July 2026; new HTS headings 9903.03.12-9903.03.16 and U.S. note 51 to subchapter III of chapter 99. Every code shown above was checked again on 31 October 2026 against U.S. note 51 in Revision 22 of the tariff schedule, which carries the changes of 15 September (CBP CSMS #69851916) and 30 October (CBP CSMS #70314289, Proclamation 11076), and every category in the second table was confirmed absent from it. The import bans are from the annexes to Proclamations 11061-11063 (alcohol, dairy and motor vehicles). Verify at the source before acting on a single line. Informational, not customs, legal or financial advice.