On March 19, 2025, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) provided the following additional guidance on the additional duties imposed on March 4, 2025 on imports of energy and energy resources that are the products of Canada.
GUIDANCE:
- Energy and energy resources that qualify for USMCA are not subject to the additional tariffs.
- Energy and energy resources that are the product of Canada and that do not qualify for USMCA are assessed an additional ad valorem rate of duty of 10%
- Imports of energy and energy resources of Canada, as defined in section 8 of Executive Order 14156 of January 20, 2025 (Declaring a National Energy Emergency) as: crude oil, natural gas, lease condensates, natural gas liquids, refined petroleum products, uranium, coal, biofuels, geothermal heat, the kinetic movement of flowing water, and critical minerals, as defined by 30 U.S.C. 1606 (a)(3)
- Energy or energy resources of Canada include, but are not limited to, goods classified under the HTSUS subheadings in this attached spreadsheet.
CBP CSMS # 64470353 – Guidance may be found here.
If you have any questions, please contact our Compliance Team or your JSC account supervisor.
NOTE: This is an update to the original newsletter distributed on March 19, 2025.
On March 19, 2025, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) provided a correction message CSMS# 64472173, with the attached spreadsheet.
