The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) targets specific industries and products for extra attention at the border to ensure importers are compliant with requirements for tariff classification, product valuation and country of origin.
Are your goods on the list?
CBSA’s list of targeted verification priorities is updated on an ongoing basis. The current list, published July 2025, is now available on the CBSA website.
It contains eight types of goods targeted to ensure correct tariff classification. Bedding and drapery are targeted for origin verifications at this time.
New compliance priorities announced include:
- Verifications on the classification of frozen desserts containing 5% of dairy products
- GST and excise duties and taxes, including GST exemption codes and vaping products
- Import origin verifications under the Canada-European Union Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) and the Canada-United Kingdom Trade Continuity Agreement (CUKTCA)
- Under the duties relief program (DRP), verifications of licensees importing supply managed goods
- United States Surtax Order 2025-01, Steel and Aluminum 2025, Motor Vehicles 2025
- Electric vehicles, steel, and aluminum, according to the China Surtax Order (2024)
Items on the verification priorities list are:
- Bags (Verification priority released in July 2023, results available)
- Bicycle parts (Verification priority released in June 2021, results available)
- Freezers and other freezing equipment (Verification priority released in May 2023, results available)
- Furniture for non-domestic purposes (Verification priority released in April 2022, results available)
- Gloves (Verification priority released in May 2024, results available)
- LED lamps (Verification priority released in October 2022, results available)
- Spent fowl (Verification priority released in September 2023, results available)
- Washers and dryers (Verification priority released in May 2023, results available)
Please review the 2025 Verification Priorities list carefully to see if your goods are on it.
If you’re importing any of the targeted items, pay extra attention to your import practices and customs paperwork. Any errors or inconsistencies can result in extra duty and penalties, disruptions to your supply chain, border delays and loss of good importer status with the CBSA.
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