Covered goods · Springs & Clamps
The 25% surtax on your steel springs, clamps, and fittings is refundable
Canadian importers of compression springs, hose clamps, U-bolts, pipe fittings, and related steel hardware have been paying a 25% surtax since December 26, 2025. A published federal remission order lets you recover what you paid. The two-year claim window is already running. You keep 100% of every dollar recovered.
If we find nothing, it costs you nothing.
A 15-minute call with the founder, then a free scan of a transaction report from your own CARM portal that shows the surtax you paid and the range that looks recoverable, before you pay anything. Fees start at $2,495 CAD, backed by the 5x guarantee.
Every qualifying entry, its order, its authority code. Ready to file.
| Entry | Order cited | Recoverable |
|---|---|---|
| 14782-031 | SOR/2026-34 | $31,500 |
| 14782-117 | SOR/2025-122 | $18,240 |
| 14783-009 | K32 drawback | $9,615 |
| every qualifying entry, line by line | … | |
| Identified (illustrative) | $100,000 | |
The free look shows what you paid and the recoverable range. This shows every entry, its order, and its code, the part that gets filed. Illustrative sample.
Surtax coverage figure: Department of Finance Canada
The covered goods
Do you import any of these?
Springs, clamps, and fittings arrive in large assortments across dozens of SKUs. These are among the steel derivative goods covered under SOR/2025-267, which has applied since December 26, 2025.
Springs, clamps & fittings
- Compression, extension, and torsion springs
- Hose clamps and worm-drive clamps
- Pipe clamps and pipe saddles
- U-bolts and J-bolts
- Steel pipe fittings and couplings
- Steel brackets and mounting hardware
Often on the same containers
The detail
Why your steel hardware carries a surtax, and why the refund goes unclaimed
On December 26, 2025, Canada extended its 25% surtax beyond US-origin steel and aluminum to a broader category: steel derivative goods imported from any country of origin. Springs, clamps, U-bolts, pipe fittings, and similar steel-based hardware fall squarely within this category under the Steel Derivative Goods Surtax Order (SOR/2025-267). The charge appears on your CBSA Commercial Accounting Declaration as an additional duty line, separate from any regular customs duty. Because it is coded differently from ordinary tariff lines, many importers, and even some customs brokers, have not flagged it as recoverable.
The refund route is a published federal remission order: the Steel Derivative Goods Surtax Remission Order (SOR/2026-34). To access it, a qualifying entry must be adjusted in CARM with the correct special authority code on the CAD. If that code was left blank at the time of import, which it almost always is for high-SKU hardware shipments, the surtax sits unclaimed on your CBSA account. For importers bringing in large assortments of springs, clamps, and fittings across many part numbers, the cumulative exposure across even one year of shipments can be substantial. The two-year lookback window means entries from December 2025 will begin to expire in December 2027, with another month of potential recovery lapsing every month after that.
Every regulation above links to its official Government of Canada page. Don’t take our word for any of it.
Your exposure
How much surtax are you sitting on?
Drag to your rough annual import of covered goods. The surtax is 25% of that value, so the arithmetic is simple. Illustrative, not a quote. Your real number comes from your entries.
Two years of it is still claimable, and a portion is recoverable. The free look shows you how much.
See if you’re owedThe math
What the money looks like
A typical $2M a year of surtax on covered steel hardware, worked all the way through. Illustrative, on the Standard tier.
That money isn’t hypothetical. It’s surtax you already paid, sitting on the government’s side of the ledger. Refunds arrive as credits or payments on your CBSA account, applied first against anything you owe CBSA. The only question is whether it gets claimed before the window closes.
Under the old industry model, a 25% contingency, that same recovery would have cost you $25,000. Our fee is flat and published, so the math stays this lopsided at every volume. See the full pricing and the 5x guarantee.
Your real number comes from your real entries.
See if you’re owedThe deadline
The window is closing. For real, not as a sales line.
Refund claims must be made within two years of each importation. The surtax started in March 2025, which means your earliest entries become unclaimable in early 2027. After that, another month of refunds expires every month, permanently. There’s no countdown clock on this page because the statute doesn’t need one.
And if the tariffs get lifted in a trade deal? Past overpayments remain refundable within the two-year window. A deal stops future surtax; it doesn’t return what you already paid.
Your oldest entries expire first. From early 2027, another month of refunds becomes unclaimable every month.
Start before they doThe process
How it works
Four steps. The first is free: you see your number before you commit a dollar, and the 5x guarantee covers the rest. You never need to understand CARM, CADs, or authority codes. Day markers are typical, not promises.
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The free look
Day 0 to 3A 15-minute call, then we read a transaction report you pull from your own CARM portal. You see the surtax you’ve paid on covered entries and the range that looks recoverable, the size of the prize. The how (which orders, which codes, how to file) is the work, and it starts at the audit. No account access, no NDA, no fee. New to the portal? Our CARM guide walks you through it.
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The recovery audit
Day 3 to 10The work the free look can’t do. We examine all 24 months entry by entry and decide which federal program recovers each one. A wrong code, or an entry that doesn’t truly qualify, bounces the whole claim. Knowing which is which is what you’re paying for. You engage at half the fee; we sign an NDA and you delegate read-only CARM access.
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The filing-ready package
Day 10 to 20Not a report of what you might be owed. The instrument that gets it back: the exact authority code for every qualifying entry, prepared K32s, documentary support, ready to transmit. Hand it to your broker or self-file in CARM and it pays out. White Glove: we coordinate it for you.
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Money in your account
Day 90 to 120The point of all of it. Refunds post to your CBSA account, with interest if CBSA runs late. Your broker files, or you self-file. You stay in control the whole way.
The 5x guarantee. If the audit doesn’t identify at least 5x our fee in recoverable surtax, your half-payment comes back in full and you keep the findings. The free look already cost you nothing.
Questions
Questions about springs, clamps & fittings refunds
How do I know which of my spring and clamp SKUs are covered by the surtax remission order?
Coverage under SOR/2025-267 is based on whether the goods are classified as steel derivative goods under the order, which turns on the product’s material composition and tariff classification. FlatClaim reviews your transaction report from CARM, maps your import lines against the remission order, and identifies which entries are eligible. You do not need to pre-sort your SKUs; that is exactly what the audit covers.
We import from multiple countries, including the US and overseas. Does that change what we can claim?
It depends on which surtax applies. The steel derivative goods surtax under SOR/2025-267 applies to covered goods from every country of origin, so your non-US shipments may be eligible under that order. US-origin steel and aluminum products have been subject to a separate 25% surtax since March 2025 under SOR/2025-95, with its own remission route under SOR/2025-122. FlatClaim reviews both exposure streams in a single audit.
Our volumes are high but our per-shipment values are modest. Is it worth filing?
That is one of the most common situations FlatClaim sees with hardware importers. Individually, each line is small. Across hundreds of SKUs and dozens of shipments over two years, the aggregate surtax paid can be meaningful. The Starter plan at $2,495 covers up to $1 million per year of covered imports, and the 5x guarantee means if the audit does not identify at least five times the fee in recoverable surtax, you receive a full refund of what you paid and keep the findings.
What does the claim process look like for a company with a high SKU count?
FlatClaim asks you to pull one transaction report from your own CARM portal (no account access is shared with us). We read that report, map your lines against the applicable remission orders, and deliver a filing-ready claim package. Your licensed customs broker transmits the adjustments through CARM, or your team can self-file. We prepare everything; we do not need access to your broker account or systems. If CBSA rejects a claim we prepared, we correct and refile at no charge.
More in plain-English answers and the main FAQ.
Book a free first look at your springs and fittings entries
Send Jon what you import and he’ll come back with a straight read on your tier, your likely exposure, and whether the numbers clear the 5x bar for your volume. That’s the founder replying, not an SDR or a call centre. The first look is free, with no account access and no fee.
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