Duty and Freight Add 1.2% to Plastics in Primary Forms From Canada
Canada shipped $4.1 billion of plastics in primary forms to U.S. buyers in 2025. USITC reported an effective calculated-duty rate of 0.3%, while measured freight added 0.9% of customs value — an additive 1.2% burden…
Canada shipped $4.1 billion of plastics in primary forms to U.S. buyers in 2025. USITC reported an effective calculated-duty rate of 0.3%, while measured freight added 0.9% of customs value — an additive 1.2% burden before domestic logistics. The CAD moved 2.4% in favor of the buyer over the last two weeks of the FX window. No country-specific unit value is available for this lane, so it is not ranked by landed unit cost.
reported duty rate: 0.3%
freight share: 0.9%
total uplift: 1.2%
The alternatives, same arithmetic: Mexico at 2.0% uplift, Germany at 12.5% uplift, France at 12.7% uplift. No listed alternative has a lower duty-and-freight burden, but that alone does not establish the lowest landed unit cost.
The effective calculated-duty rate is USITC's reported calculated duty divided by the customs value covered by those duty observations for 2025; it is not a verified cash-payment amount or proof of any particular exclusion, quota, or trade-program claim. Freight is the lane's reported import-charges share of customs value. Reference data, not a customs quote.