Proclamation 11076, signed October 23 and published in the Federal Register on October 30, 2026, at 91 FR 68861, rewrites the list of Canadian products that pay the additional 50 percent duty when they enter the United States.[1][2] The proclamation sets one switch point for the change: goods "entered for consumption, or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption, on or after 12:01 a.m. eastern time on October 30, 2026" fall under the new lists.[1] For a shopper in the United States pricing an order of Canadian-origin goods, the duty bill turns on the product's origin, its tariff classification, and the moment its customs entry is filed. The date the order was placed and the country the parcel ships from do not set the duty by themselves.[1]
The proclamation makes two moves at once. Products listed in Annex I, Part A "shall no longer be subject to the additional ad valorem duty of 50 percent imposed pursuant to Proclamation 11048, as amended," and products listed in Part B become subject to it.[1] The duty itself dates to Proclamation 11048 of July 20, 2026, which set its start for August 19, 2026.[3] Proclamation 11056 then suspended that effective date for three days, and Proclamation 11076's recitals record that the duties took effect when the suspension lapsed at 12:01 a.m. eastern time on August 22, 2026.[1] Since September 15 the duty has applied "in addition to duties imposed pursuant to section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962," so a covered product can carry both lines on one entry.[1][4]
What changed in the duty bill
The October 30 document's operative change is to the duty lists. The 50 percent rate and the Section 232 stacking rule are unchanged; Proclamation 11065 set that combination for entries on or after September 15, 2026, and the new proclamation restates it.[1][4]
Section 338 of the Tariff Act of 1930, the authority behind the program, caps such duties at "not to exceed 50 percent ad valorem" and also authorizes the President to exclude products from importation altogether.[1] That second power has been used in this dispute: Proclamation 11063, published September 14, 2026, excludes certain Canadian products from importation in response to the motor-vehicle dispute.[5] The product lists in the new proclamation and its predecessors are printed as graphic pages in the Federal Register, pages 68864 through 68871 for the October 30 document, so identifying a specific product line means reading the published pages themselves.[1]
The stated purpose of the program is offsetting Canada's motor-vehicle tariff scheme, as the proclamations describe it. Proclamation 11048's recitals say Canada has taxed US motor vehicles at 25 percent since April 9, 2025 where they lack preferential treatment under the USMCA, and put the decline in US vehicle exports to Canada at about 22 percent, from roughly $25.9 billion to roughly $20.3 billion year over year.[3] Those figures are the proclamation's own account, given to justify the duty.
The entry date decides the bill
The trigger clause repeats across the duty proclamations in this chain. Proclamation 11048 set its start for goods "entered for consumption, or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption, on or after 12:01 a.m. eastern time on August 19, 2026."[3] Proclamation 11065 used the same structure for its September 15, 2026 changes.[4] Proclamation 11076 uses it again for the October 30 change.[1] Each of the three proclamations takes effect at the entry filing, and each says so explicitly in its operative clause.
The clause covers warehouse mechanics. Goods held in a bonded warehouse change treatment when they are withdrawn for consumption on or after the effective time.[1] Goods placed in a US foreign trade zone on or after an effective date must be admitted as "privileged foreign status," which carries the duty lines into the eventual consumption entry.[3]
For an online order, the customs entry is typically filed when the goods arrive, by the carrier or its broker, so the filing date is the moment the new lists apply. The operative clauses quoted here make no explicit provision for goods already in transit.[1] A checkout date does not settle which side of the switch a parcel lands on; the entry filing does. Carriers also differ in when they stage entries, so two orders placed the same day can be entered on different dates.
Why Canadian orders carry duty lines
The reshuffle takes effect in a mail system where duty-free de minimis treatment is suspended, which is why a shipment of Canadian-origin goods carries a duty line whenever the goods are on the duty list. Customs and Border Protection's e-commerce guidance states that the suspension "applies to merchandise valued at $800 or less arriving via all modes, including the international postal network, unless specifically excepted pursuant to a separate authority," and that the new mail informal entry process took effect July 24, 2026.[6] CBP's final rule dates the mail-side suspension to June 24, 2026 and traces it to Executive Order 14324 of July 30, 2025, which suspended duty-free de minimis treatment for all countries, as modified in February 2026.[7]
The $800 figure is the suspended duty-free threshold. The $2,500 figure is the value ceiling for the simplified informal entry process CBP created for mail shipments.[7] Neither number is a discount; both are process thresholds, and the second one now decides how a low-value parcel is entered.
The January 20, 2027 date is a paperwork deadline inside this system. CBP's rule states: "The compliance date for 19 CFR 145.12(a)(2)(v) and (vi) is January 20, 2027," covering the formal entry requirement for mail shipments subject to partner government agency requirements, to duties under Chapter 98 or Chapter 99 of the HTSUS, or claiming Chapter 98 or free-trade-agreement duty-free treatment.[7] That date was previously October 22, 2026, and the informal entry process remains in place during the delay.[7] A voluntary electronic option, the Entry Type 13 test, has been available for eligible shipments valued at $2,500 or less since September 22, 2026.[7] The extension moves a filing timeline; it does not restore the $800 threshold.
What you can verify today
Two of the three facts behind a duty bill are within a shopper's reach. The origin of the goods is the country where they were made, which sellers typically state in their product information. The entry date is the date of the customs entry filing; in the mail environment, that filing typically takes the form of the informal entry process CBP created for shipments valued at $2,500 or less, with formal entry required for shipments subject to partner government agency requirements or carrying Chapter 98 or Chapter 99 duties.[7]
The third fact, the tariff classification, is the hard one. It sits in the Harmonized Tariff Schedule as modified by Annex II, and the annex pages are images, so line-level lookup today means reading eight pages of published graphics, which is not practical for most shoppers.[1] CBP is authorized to issue guidance and instructions that would simplify that lookup, and to correct the annexes through Federal Register notices; until such guidance appears, the published pages remain the reference for the Part A and Part B lists.[1]