Tariff Resources for Simcoe County Businesses

Use this checklist to assess how current tariff measures may affect your business and identify actions you can take to reduce potential impacts.

• Review your supply chain.
  Identify U.S.-origin materials, components, equipment and finished goods used by your business.
• Confirm product classifications.
  Determine the Harmonized System, or HS, tariff classification for potentially affected goods.
• Check whether tariffs apply.
  Compare product classifications against the Government of Canada’s official tariff and countermeasure lists.
• Review upcoming shipments.
  Check the timing, origin and customs treatment of goods that have been ordered, are in transit or are scheduled to cross the border.
• Confirm CUSMA eligibility.
  Determine whether your exports qualify for preferential tariff treatment under the Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement.
• Assess financial impacts.
  Estimate how tariffs could affect landed costs, pricing, contracts, margins and cash flow.
• Seek professional guidance.
  Consult a customs broker, trade lawyer or Trade Commissioner if product classification, origin or tariff treatment is unclear.
• Explore alternative suppliers and markets.
  Consider Canadian suppliers, non-U.S. sources and opportunities to diversify into new domestic or international markets.
• Review available business supports.
  Explore financing, tariff relief, insurance, export assistance and market-development programs.
• Tell us how your business is affected.
  Complete the County of Simcoe’s Tariff Impact Assessment below to help identify local challenges and support needs.