Start with importing goods from India into Canada. Follow the planning areas below, then keep your work in a Trade Project. Exporting from Canada to India? The export guide and planner are ready too.
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Use this overview to understand the journey. It is separate from the numbered steps inside your Trade Workspace. Read a guide, try an available public tool, or sign in to work on your project.
Decide exactly what you will import and check it can be sold in Canada.
Confirm the rules for that product: classification, labelling and CARM readiness.
Get supplier quotes and compare them on the same basis.
Work out the full landed cost per unit — product, freight, duty, tax and fees.
Prepare the invoice, packing list, origin and import records the border needs.
Book the freight, track it and clear it with your broker.
Duty on goods from India depends on three things: the product's tariff classification, where it was made, and the tariff treatment Canada gives it on the day you import. Canada and India do not have a comprehensive trade agreement in force, so do not assume a reduced rate.
GST is charged on most commercial imports on top of duty. Both are accounted for in CARM.
Sources are re-checked before every update. See Trade Note: no agreement in force for the official references.
An order published in the Canada Gazette (SOR/2026-227, in force 23 Oct 2026) updates which steel derivative goods can get relief from the steel derivative goods surtax, replacing the remission order's schedule and conditions. CBSA guidance (Customs Notice 26-07) was updated 2 Nov 2026. No surtax rate is set or changed.
The CITT kept its anti-dumping order on oil country tubular goods from seven origins and ended it for Ukraine. Orders published in the Canada Gazette on 17 Oct; written reasons due 22 Oct.
Talks have since reached a fifth round (Ottawa, early October). No agreement is in force, so nothing changes for the duty you pay today.
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Worksheets to help you organize your first import into Canada. Yours to keep.
Now open. Canadian businesses can plan an export to India in eight steps: readiness, India’s rules, shipping terms, a quote, your buyer’s cost, documents, the CBSA export declaration and a pack for your buyer.
Start a Canada → India Trade Project and the export planner opens inside it. Canada – USA and Canada – China are coming next, after their rules have been checked against official sources.
Read the Export Guide →The Trade Hub is where you understand the route and get started. Your Trade Workspace is where the project actually lives — steps, numbers, documents and shipments, saved in one place.
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Cotton bedding, Jaipur → Calgary
Illustrative import-planning overview · figures in CAD
