CBSA updates trade verification and compliance priorities

The CBSA has announced the latest Trade compliance verification priorities as of July 2025, please click here for the full list:

Trade compliance verification

The following new priorities have been included, some of which are expansions or amendments to those announced in January 2025.

  • Tariff rate quota and classification of supply managed goods
    • Verifications on the classification of frozen desserts containing 5% of dairy products
  • GST and excise duties and taxes
    • GST exemption codes
    • Vaping products subject to excise duties and taxes
  • Import origin verifications under:
    • Canada-European Union Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA)
    • Canada-United Kingdom Trade Continuity Agreement (CUKTCA)
  • Duties Relief Program (DRP)
    • Verifications of licensees importing supply managed goods
  • China Surtax Order (2024): Electric vehicles
  • China Surtax Order (2024): Steel and Aluminum
  • United States Surtax Order (2025-01)
  • United States Surtax Order (Steel and Aluminum 2025)
  • United States Surtax Order (Motor Vehicles 2025)