United States Surtax Remission Order (2025)

SOR/2025-122 · affects United States Surtax — Steel & Aluminum, United States Surtax

Rules under this instrument (17)

Health, Safety & Security end-use remissionConditional

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Remission · Effective 2025-04-16 to 2027-07-01 · 294 tariff item(s)

Conditional — here's exactly what makes it claimable: Narrow end-use condition imported for use by a qualifying entity for health care, public health, national defence, or national security purposes Eligible entities include: government/clinical health research organization; medical-countermeasure producer/storer; office of a public health official (Food and Drug Regulations s.C.10.001(1)); ambulance/emergency response provider; firefighting service; law enforcement agency; federal/provincial correctional service; Department of National Defence; Canadian Forces; CSIS.

SOR/2025-122, s.1 & s.5(a) (as amended by SOR/2026-154, s.2); CN 25-19 §§4, 18-20, 39 https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/regulations/SOR-2025-122/FullText.html

SOR/2025-95 https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/regulations/SOR-2025-95/FullText.html

Applies to all items covered by the underlying surtax order (see citation above), not a separate list within this remission order.

Steel Manufacturing end-use remissionConditional

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Remission · Effective 2025-04-16 to 2027-07-01 · 265 tariff item(s)

Conditional — here's exactly what makes it claimable: Narrow end-use condition imported for use, in Canada, in the manufacture or processing of any good, production of any agricultural product, or packaging of a food product or beverage

SOR/2025-122, s.3 & s.5(a.01) (as amended by SOR/2026-154, s.2); CN 25-19 §§6, 24-34, 41 https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/regulations/SOR-2025-122/FullText.html

Schedule 6 remissionClear

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Remission · Effective 2026-07-01 to ongoing · 179 tariff item(s)

Conditional — here's exactly what makes it claimable: Schedule-specific condition goods determined not to be made in Canada -- a range of steel mill products

SOR/2025-122, s.4.4 & s.5.1, Schedule 6 (added by SOR/2026-154, ss.1, 3); CN 25-19 §13 https://gazette.gc.ca/rp-pr/p2/2026/2026-07-01/html/sor-dors154-eng.html

Aluminum Manufacturing end-use remissionConditional

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Remission · Effective 2025-04-16 to 2026-02-01 · 29 tariff item(s)

Conditional — here's exactly what makes it claimable: Narrow end-use condition imported for use, in Canada, in the manufacture or processing of any good, production of any agricultural product, or packaging of a food product or beverage

SOR/2025-122, s.3 & s.5(a.02); CN 25-19 §§6, 24-34, 41 https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/regulations/SOR-2025-122/FullText.html

Vehicle & Aircraft Parts end-use remissionConditional

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Remission · Effective 2026-02-01 to 2027-07-01 · 294 tariff item(s)

Conditional — here's exactly what makes it claimable: Narrow end-use condition for use in the manufacture of motor vehicles or chassis for motor vehicles or in the manufacture of parts of or accessories for motor vehicles or chassis for motor vehicles; OR for use in aircraft, ground flying trainers or spacecraft or in parts thereof

SOR/2025-122, s.3.1 & s.5(a.03) (as amended by SOR/2026-154, s.2); CN 25-19 §§7, 42 https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/regulations/SOR-2025-122/FullText.html

SOR/2025-95 https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/regulations/SOR-2025-95/FullText.html

Applies to all items covered by the underlying surtax order (see citation above), not a separate list within this remission order.

Schedule 3 remissionConditional

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Remission · Effective 2025-04-16 to 2027-03-05 · 9 tariff item(s)

Conditional — here's exactly what makes it claimable: Schedule-specific condition each item has its OWN expiry date rather than a shared deadline -- see docs/review-queue/batch-003.md for the full per-item table (earliest 2025-05-17, latest 2027-03-05). Descriptions are hyper-specific (exact grades/dimensions).

SOR/2025-122, s.4.1 & s.5(a.04), Schedule 3; CN 25-19 §§9, 45 https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/regulations/SOR-2025-122/FullText.html

Health Care end-use remissionConditional

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Remission · Effective 2025-04-16 to 2027-07-01 · 294 tariff item(s)

Conditional — here's exactly what makes it claimable: Narrow end-use condition for medically necessary health care services (hospital, health/dental clinic, medical/dental/diagnostic lab, long-term care facility) OR for use by a blood/cell/tissue/organ program or a federal/provincial/local/Indigenous health authority Eligible entities include: hospital; health/dental clinic; medical/dental/diagnostic lab; long-term care facility; blood/cell/tissue/organ program; federal/provincial/local/Indigenous health authority.

SOR/2025-122, s.2 & s.5(a) (as amended by SOR/2026-154, s.2); CN 25-19 §§5, 21-23, 40 https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/regulations/SOR-2025-122/FullText.html

SOR/2025-95 https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/regulations/SOR-2025-95/FullText.html

Applies to all items covered by the underlying surtax order (see citation above), not a separate list within this remission order.

Schedule 2 remission (8-digit)Conditional

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Remission · Effective 2025-04-16 to ongoing · 128 tariff item(s)

Conditional — here's exactly what makes it claimable: Schedule-specific condition Schedule 2 is a general short-supply list. Tariff code alone is NOT sufficient; column-2 descriptions are narrower than the code.

SOR/2025-122, s.4.1 & s.5.1, Schedule 2 (as amended by SOR/2026-154, ss.4-14); CN 25-19 §§9, 44 https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/regulations/SOR-2025-122/FullText.html

Schedule 2 remission (10-digit)Conditional

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Remission · Effective 2025-04-16 to ongoing · 84 tariff item(s)

Conditional — here's exactly what makes it claimable: Schedule-specific condition Schedule 2 is a general short-supply list. Tariff code alone is NOT sufficient; column-2 descriptions are narrower than the code.

SOR/2025-122, s.4.1 & s.5.1, Schedule 2 (as amended by SOR/2026-154, ss.4-14); CN 25-19 §§9, 44 https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/regulations/SOR-2025-122/FullText.html

Schedule 1 remission (8-digit)Conditional

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Remission · Effective 2025-04-16 to ongoing · 3 tariff item(s)

Conditional — here's exactly what makes it claimable: Schedule-specific condition goods listed in Schedule 1, item 3 only: medical compression garments. (Item 5, freezers/refrigerators, moved to us_surtax__remission_schedule1_freezers -- it was added to Schedule 1 later than item 3 and needs its own effective_from; see batch-008.md.) — tariff code alone is not sufficient -- each item Schedule 1 description narrows the code to a specific medical end-use, same caveat as batch-001 Rule 4

SOR/2025-122, s.4 & Schedule 1 https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/regulations/SOR-2025-122/FullText.html

Schedule 1 remission — FreezersConditional

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Remission · Effective 2025-06-26 to ongoing · 1 tariff item(s)

Conditional — here's exactly what makes it claimable: Schedule-specific condition blood bank or plasma freezers, laboratory freezers, blood bank refrigerators (incl. pass-thru), laboratory refrigerators, pharmaceutical refrigerators (incl. pass-thru or laboratory pass-thru) — tariff code alone is not sufficient -- Schedule 1 item 5's description narrows to these specific equipment types, same caveat as batch-001 Rule 4

SOR/2025-122, s.4 & Schedule 1 item 5, as added by SOR/2025-147 s.10 https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/regulations/SOR-2025-122/FullText.html

Schedule 1 remission (10-digit)Conditional

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Remission · Effective 2025-04-16 to ongoing · 14 tariff item(s)

Conditional — here's exactly what makes it claimable: Schedule-specific condition goods listed in Schedule 1, items 1/2/4 only: specialized infant formulas; nutrition formulas/metabolic products/formulated liquid diet/human milk fortifiers; sterile barrier film/pouches for medical manufacturing. (Item 6, inter-hospital transfer vans, moved to us_surtax__remission_schedule1_vans -- it was added to Schedule 1 much later than items 1/2/4 and needs its own effective_from; see batch-008.md.) — tariff code alone is not sufficient -- same caveat as batch-001 Rule 4

SOR/2025-122, s.4 & Schedule 1 https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/regulations/SOR-2025-122/FullText.html

Schedule 1 remission — VansConditional

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Remission · Effective 2026-02-05 to ongoing · 1 tariff item(s)

Conditional — here's exactly what makes it claimable: Schedule-specific condition inter-hospital transfer vans with fewer than 10 passengers — tariff code alone is not sufficient -- Schedule 1 item 6's description narrows to this specific vehicle type/capacity, same caveat as batch-001 Rule 4

SOR/2025-122, s.4 & Schedule 1 item 6, as added by SOR/2026-16 s.1 https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/regulations/SOR-2025-122/FullText.html

Health, Safety & Security end-use remissionConditional

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Remission · Effective 2025-04-16 to 2027-07-01 · 1270 tariff item(s)

Conditional — here's exactly what makes it claimable: Narrow end-use condition imported for use by a qualifying entity for health care, public health, national defence, or national security purposes Eligible entities include: government/clinical health research organization; medical-countermeasure producer/storer; office of a public health official (Food and Drug Regulations s.C.10.001(1)); ambulance/emergency response provider; firefighting service; law enforcement agency (incl. self-administered Indigenous police services, environmental/wildlife enforcement with peace-officer status); federal/provincial correctional service; Department of National Defence; Canadian Forces; CSIS.

SOR/2025-122, s.1 & s.5(a) (as amended by SOR/2026-154, s.2) https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/regulations/SOR-2025-122/FullText.html

SOR/2025-66, ss.1-4 & Schedule; CN 25-10 §§7-11, 26, 28 https://gazette.gc.ca/rp-pr/p2/2025/2025-03-12/html/sor-dors66-eng.html

Applies to all items covered by the underlying surtax order (see citation above), not a separate list within this remission order.

Schedule 2 remission (8-digit)Conditional

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Remission · Effective 2025-04-16 to ongoing · 26 tariff item(s)

Conditional — here's exactly what makes it claimable: Schedule-specific condition Schedule 2 is a general short-supply list -- goods found not to be reasonably available from domestic production. Tariff code alone is NOT sufficient; column-2 descriptions are narrower than the code, same caveat as batch-001 Rule 4 and batch-003 steel/aluminum variant of this same schedule.

SOR/2025-122, s.4.1 & s.5.1, Schedule 2 (as amended by SOR/2026-154, ss.4-14) https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/regulations/SOR-2025-122/FullText.html

Schedule 2 remission (10-digit)Conditional

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Remission · Effective 2025-04-16 to ongoing · 11 tariff item(s)

Conditional — here's exactly what makes it claimable: Schedule-specific condition Schedule 2 is a general short-supply list. Tariff code alone is NOT sufficient; column-2 descriptions are narrower than the code, same caveat as batch-001 Rule 4 and batch-003 steel/aluminum variant of this same schedule.

SOR/2025-122, s.4.1 & s.5.1, Schedule 2 (as amended by SOR/2026-154, ss.4-14) https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/regulations/SOR-2025-122/FullText.html

Health Care end-use remissionConditional

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Remission · Effective 2025-04-16 to 2027-07-01 · 1270 tariff item(s)

Conditional — here's exactly what makes it claimable: Narrow end-use condition for medically necessary health care services (hospital, health/dental clinic, medical/dental/diagnostic lab, long-term care facility) OR for use by a blood/cell/tissue/organ program or a federal/provincial/local/Indigenous health authority Eligible entities include: hospital; health/dental clinic; medical/dental/diagnostic lab; long-term care facility; blood/cell/tissue/organ program; federal/provincial/local/Indigenous health authority.

SOR/2025-122, s.2 & s.5(a) (as amended by SOR/2026-154, s.2) https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/regulations/SOR-2025-122/FullText.html

SOR/2025-66, ss.1-4 & Schedule; CN 25-10 §§7-11, 26, 28 https://gazette.gc.ca/rp-pr/p2/2025/2025-03-12/html/sor-dors66-eng.html

Applies to all items covered by the underlying surtax order (see citation above), not a separate list within this remission order.

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