BorderCost
Daily-updated tariff tracker that tells a Canadian small business exactly which of its products face new US duties, what the landed cost will be, and what to charge customers starting August 19.
Canadian small business owners who export to the US or compete with US imports in the Canadian market
- Daily tariff-feed by HS code with a 'does this hit my products?' watchlist
- Landed-cost calculator that rolls tariff into margin, freight, and duty
- Sourcing-alternative suggestions when a category becomes uneconomic
- Customer-email templates to explain price changes without losing trust
50% US tariffs on roughly $20B of Canadian exports take effect August 19 and SMBs have days to reprice and renegotiate before the holiday ordering season.
Strong SMB anxiety evidenced by CFIB's dedicated US-tariff portal, federal Trade Commissioner exporter-support page, and a mature ecosystem of landed-cost calculators (TariffTrac, DutyDecoder, TariffCalc.ca, TimeTrex, SupplyGuard); however the specific 'August 19' 50% trigger and the 500+ Google Trends claim could not be independently verified in search results.Resources and tools for Canadian exporters facing U.S. tariffs ↗Canada-U.S. Trade - CFIB ↗TariffWars.ca — Canada's Trade War Tracker ↗
At least one direct Canadian competitor (TariffWars.ca) plus 5+ global landed-cost calculators already serve parts of the workflow; the gap for a Canada-specific daily-updated tracker with SMB pricing recommendations is real but narrow and contested.TariffWars.ca — Canada's Trade War Tracker ↗TariffTrac - Landed Cost Calculator ↗Landed Cost & Tariff Calculator — HS Code Lookup & Duty Estimation ↗
B2B tariff tools can charge subscriptions (TariffTrac uses freemium trial model) and SMBs face existential pressure to reprice, but free authoritative alternatives from the Canadian government, CFIB, and several free calculators compress willingness to pay.TariffTrac - Landed Cost Calculator ↗Canada-U.S. Trade - CFIB ↗DutyDecoder ↗
Tariff regime has persisted since March 2025 with rolling changes (CUSMA carve-outs, remission orders), but a single trade-deal announcement or political shift could make a tariff-tracking tool largely irrelevant overnight — high news-cycle dependency.Clyde & Co's Tariff Tracker: August edition ↗
Buildable: HS codes, CBSA tariffs, and US HTS data are public, and an LLM can summarize daily Federal Register / CBSA notices into SMB guidance; remaining hard parts are reliable daily ingestion, HS-code mapping for non-expert users, and trustworthy pricing recommendations.Canada Import Duty Calculator 2026 — Free Tariff Calculator ↗