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Trade · Sunday, October 25, 2026

Trump revises the list of Canadian goods facing extra tariffs

The File desk · Oct. 25, 2026, 6:41 a.m. ET

Confirmed2 primary sources

Status

Confirmed from a White House fact sheet and a proclamation, both dated Oct. 23, 2026. The product examples are the fact sheet's. The proclamation sets the effective time. It does not, in the sections read for this story, state a new rate for the goods being added or removed.
  • Confirmed
    The changes take effect at 12:01 a.m. Eastern on Oct. 30, 2026.
  • Confirmed
    Some goods come off the list, including plywood, some paper, certain machinery, and packing crates. Other goods go on, including certain valves, carpets, and waste products.
President Trump on Friday changed which Canadian goods face extra tariffs under . Plywood, some paper, certain machinery, and packing crates come off the list. Certain valves, carpets, and waste products go on. The switch takes effect at 12:01 a.m. Eastern on Oct. 30.1
The proclamation further modifies , the July 20, 2026 order that imposed additional duties to offset what the White House calls Canadian discrimination against U.S. commerce in motor vehicles. The fact sheet says the tariffs apply to covered goods whether or not they count as originating under the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement, and that they apply on top of tariffs imposed under . The sections of the proclamation read for this story do not state a percentage rate for the goods being added or removed.1
Section 338 lets the president proclaim additional duties on goods from a country he finds is discriminating against American commerce. The Oct. 23 proclamation uses that authority to change the product list. It says the public interest is served by the modification. This story does not repeat the fact sheet's claims about investment totals or about how much manufacturing has expanded.2
Why it matters (Estimate). A builder or a packer who imports Canadian plywood, paper, or crates gets this extra duty lifted on Oct. 30. A buyer of the valves, carpets, or waste products being added can face a new one the same morning. The White House has not, in the pages read here, printed the rate on those added goods, so the size of the change for a particular shipment is still in the annex, not in a single number a household can use.
Importers of the goods coming off the list will no longer pay this particular extra duty after the effective minute, and buyers of the goods going on the list may pay more. The proclamation's annexes name the tariff lines. This story uses the fact sheet's examples and does not reprint the full annex.
How we know

Notes

  1. 1.White House fact sheet, “Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Further Modifies Canadian Products Subject to Tariffs Under Section 338,” Oct. 23, 2026. https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2026/10/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-further-modifies-canadian-products-subject-to-tariffs-under-section-338/ “President Trump is further modifying (Imposing Additional Duties To Offset Canadian Discrimination Against the Commerce of the United States With Respect to Motor Vehicles), as amended, by removing certain products — such as plywood sheets, some paper products, certain machinery and refrigeration equipment, and certain packing crates and boxes — from the scope of the Section 338 tariffs and replacing those products with certain valves, carpets, waste products, and others.” “These Section 338 tariffs apply to all covered goods regardless of whether a good originates under the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), and they apply in addition to tariffs imposed under .” “The product additions and removals will take effect on October 30, 2026.” Promotional claims in that fact sheet about investment totals are not used here.
  2. 2.Presidential proclamation, “Further Modifying the Scope of Products of Canada Subject to the Additional Duties Imposed to Offset Canadian Discrimination Against the Commerce of the United States With Respect to Motor Vehicles,” Oct. 23, 2026. https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2026/10/further-modifying-the-scope-of-products-of-canada-subject-to-the-additional-duties-imposed-to-offset-canadian-discrimination-against-the-commerce-of-the-united-states-with-respect-to-motor-vehicles/ The proclamation says the changes apply to goods entered for consumption, or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption, on or after 12:01 a.m. eastern time on October 30, 2026, and that they apply in addition to duties under , . It identifies as the proclamation of July 20, 2026. A statutory ceiling recited in the proclamation is not the rate on these products, and this story does not print it as one.

What is still unknown or disputed

  • The duty rate on the goods added or removed. The proclamation sections read for this story do not state one.
  • How many shipments move under the lines being changed. Not in the fact sheet.
  • Canada's response. No Canadian government page was opened for this story.

Primary sources

Every claim in this story is drawn from the documents below. If a fetch failed, that is recorded on the card.

  1. Source 1

    Fact sheet: further modifying Canadian products subject to Section 338 tariffs

    The White House · October 23, 2026

    The fact sheet says specified Canadian products come off the Section 338 list and others go on, effective Oct. 30, 2026.

    https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2026/10/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-further-modifies-canadian-products-subject-to-tariffs-under-section-338/

  2. Source 2

    Proclamation further modifying the scope of Canadian products subject to additional duties

    The White House · October 23, 2026

    The proclamation sets the change for goods entered on or after 12:01 a.m. Eastern on Oct. 30, 2026.

    https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2026/10/further-modifying-the-scope-of-products-of-canada-subject-to-the-additional-duties-imposed-to-offset-canadian-discrimination-against-the-commerce-of-the-united-states-with-respect-to-motor-vehicles/