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Canada's 8 September Counter-Tariffs on US Cosmetics: The Five Tariff Lines, and Why Skincare Is Not on the List
Canada applies counter-tariffs to a list of American goods from 8 September 2026, and in cosmetics the list names exactly five tariff lines, all at 50%: perfume, lip make-up, eye make-up, manicure and pedicure preparations, and the residual hair line. Face and skin care preparations are not on it. Neither is shampoo. That single fact reverses the reading now circulating in the Korean trade press, because the categories the measure opens are not the categories Korean brands se
Sep 78 min read
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