What's the latest news on CUSMA?
Summary: sapphyres-designer-jewellery initiated a discussion regarding the latest news on CUSMA. Several participants, including marnotom!, flipistics, and recped, engaged in the conversation, though the content of their responses isn't detailed. mrdutch1001 also contributed to the thread, responding to a follow-up comment by sapphyres-designer-jewellery. The discussion reflects interest in updates about CUSMA, but specific details about the news are not provided in the posts.
Does anyone know when CUSMA is supposed to be renegotiated to create the next deal we'll have with shipping from Canada (or the expiry when it will be wiped out if that's what happens?)
It hasn't been talked about it a while and I thought it was happening pretty soon.
I also figure the CUSMA thing is the next big hurdle I'll have to overcome to keep selling to the US (however that pans out), but the rising postage costs have caused me to take a hit now. I have a repeat buyer in the US and two months ago it was 8.24 to ship with Stallion, last month it was 8.78 and now it's 9.27.
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recped
·3 months agoThe informal negotiations began in late January, the "drop dead" date (the date either party can wthdraw) is July 1st.
sapphyres-designer-jewellery
OP3 months agoThanks for the links, so it looks like the first meeting will be 2 days from now, and whatever is going to happen will be happening July 1, 2026? (I didn't read word for word, but skimmed the page for important stuff).
There is already a fee per package (it's the brokerage fee right now), I pay Stallion 1.49 per package to get them across the border, before that extra 1.49 shipping was quite reasonable a lot of the time and has gotten more expensive. I've had to raise my shipping prices to cover this extra 1.49 fee. People are paying the increased shipping, but I'm careful not to increase it too much, it scares of buyers and makes me unable to compete with other sellers who can offer better shipping rates.
Stallion is applying the section 232 tariffs on metal on their items. I added a product and it asked me how much copper, steel and aluminum. It was cupro-nickel so I said 75% copper. The tariff applies to the whole value, not just the percentage that's copper. But 7118 and the other numismatic code for coins (which is what Stallion assigns to my products, kind of at random though, I don't seem to be able to pick which code is more suitable), are exempt from section 232. It's exempt for "metals used for making currency", 7118 is coins that you can spend that have a value being money, the other code is for numismatic items that have a higher value for collecting than the thing is actually worth.
Thing is, when I fill this in on Stallion and select the code I want, it gives me a single match of which code it thinks I should use and when I reject it and try again, it just keeps regurgitating the same code over and over again charging me 40 cents each time, which is kind of annoying. Why ask me what the HTS code is when I fill in the product info if you're just going to tell me which one I have to use? And if the system is wrong, what am I supposed to do about it? I don't think I can fill out my own HTS code when I do the shipping label.
However the Description and Customs Description for the shipping label can both be overridden with text I put in. I had "coin" for customs description on several and it wouldn't let me ship because he changed it to wanting 2 words. So I complained, and they fixed it so I can override that field, and then added it to the list of fields I can fill in while setting up my shipping label. (Previously I had to type everything in, save it, then go back and edit it, for the Customs Description field to show up). I believe I influenced some change on the new portal, I had lots of tickets open for things not working when they started that.
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mrdutch1001
·3 months agobecause Trump wants Canada to make consessions but has no desire to reciprocate or give very little back in return, I see nothing good happening here for Canada..so I will continue to maintain my stand:NO shipping to the USA...Buy Canadian,Sell Canadian, support the Canadian economy & eff the USA!
flipistics
·3 months ago@sapphyres-designer-jewellery IMO you should assume that Trump is going to do something significant when the negotiations start and be ready to react to it if necessary. It seems to be the pattern he uses. I could easily see him adding something like an "inspection fee" for all packages, or using the additional sector tariffs, which will likely be ready by then, to tariff anything made of, packaged in, or containing any petroleum, metal, or wood products (which would basically cover everything). He's going to do something. He seems to believe in negotiating only through exerting leverage. I'm also not convinced he actually wants a deal.
marnotom!
·3 months agoCUSMA doesn't "expire" until 2036, but it's subject to a review and the timing for that review is coming up pretty quickly. See the "quick facts" section on this page:
https://www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/news-releases/2026/04/21/prime-minister-carney-announces-new-advisory-committee-canada-us
You might also find this page useful:
https://international.canada.ca/en/global-affairs/consultations/trade/2025-09-19-cusma/report