Free tool
Canadian steel surtax refund calculator
Drag to your rough annual import of covered steel goods. The surtax is 25% of that value, so this shows the surtax riding on your containers each year. A portion of it is recoverable; the free scan of your CARM report shows exactly how much.
Two years of it is still claimable, and a portion is recoverable. The free look shows you how much.
See if you’re owedWhat this shows
Exposure, not a quote
This calculator shows your exposure: the 25% surtax you have likely paid, which is simply a quarter of your covered-goods import value. It is arithmetic anyone can do, and it is the number that tells you whether a recovery is worth pursuing.
What it does not show is your recoverable amount. How much comes back depends on which entries qualify under which order, and that is decided line by line in the audit, not by a slider. That is the work, and it is what the fee buys. A typical $2M a year of covered goods carries about $500,000 in surtax; even a partial recovery is well into six figures, against a flat fee that starts at $2,495.
The honest floor: if you import less than roughly $500K a year of covered goods, the math may not favour an audit, and we will tell you that on the call. Above that, the free scan of a transaction report from your own CARM portal turns this rough exposure into a real, per-entry recoverable range, before you pay anything.
Turn this estimate into your real number.
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Where the surtax hides
Not sure whether your imports are covered? Start with the covered goods, the product groups that carry the 25% surtax, from fasteners and racking to structural steel. To see the surtax on your own entries, the CARM portal guide walks you through pulling the one report that shows it. The full picture, including pricing and the 5x guarantee, is on the home page.