Canada’s federal government is seeking feedback on its next round of tariffs on items from the United States.
On March 4, the United States imposed a 25 per cent tariff on all Canadian imports. Energy imports are the exception and are subject to a 10 per cent tariff.
In response, Canada imposed a 25 per cent tariff on $30 billion in American imports.
However, the federal government is planning a second round of tariffs on $125 billion of products form the United States.
“Canada is being needlessly and unfairly targeted by these tariffs – and the U.S.’s decision leaves us with no choice but to respond to protect Canadian interests, workers and businesses,” said Canadian Finance Minister Dominic LeBlanc. “Working with provincial, territorial and industry partners, our singular focus is to get these tariffs removed as quickly as possible.”
Tariffs on equipment
For the equipment industry, the first round of Canadian tariffs applies to snowplows, snowblowers and lawnmowers.
However, the second round of countermeasures on imports from the United States includes tariffs on machinery used in construction and mining, including:
- Self-propelled bulldozers, angledozers, graders, levellers, scrapers, mechanical shovels, excavators, shovel loaders, tamping machines and road rollers.
- Other moving, grading, levelling, scraping, excavating, tamping, compacting, extracting or boring machinery, for earth, minerals or ores; pile-drivers and pile-extractors; snowploughs and snow-blowers.
- Ships’ derricks; cranes, including cable cranes; mobile lifting frames, straddle carriers and works trucks fitted with a crane
- Fork-lift trucks; other works trucks fitted with lifting or handling equipment.
- Special purpose motor vehicles, other than those principally designed for the transport of persons or goods (for example, breakdown lorries (wreckers), crane lorries (mobile cranes), fire fighting vehicles, concrete mixer lorries (concrete-mixers), road sweeper lorries (road sweepers), spraying lorries (spraying vehicles), mobile workshops, mobile radiological units).
Machinery parts are also proposed to see a 25 per cent tariff.
The full list of goods included in the second round of tariffs can be found here.
To mitigate the impact of its countermeasures on Canadians, the federal government is seeking viewpoints on the proposed goods included in the list.
The government is looking for input from business, stakeholders and Canadians regarding the impacts of the application of tariffs.
This second round of tariffs is subject to a 21-day comment period prior to implementation, ending on March 25.
To submit feedback, click here.
Use the following address to submit feedback by mail:
International Trade Policy Division (U.S. Tariff Consultations)
Department of Finance
90 Elgin Street, 14th Floor
Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0G5
