Canadian Sellers - De Minimis ending soon. How are you handling USMCA shipments?

[alainsblacksmit]

The U.S. is ending the De Minimis exemption for shipments under $800 on August 29th, 2025.

My main concern is properly declaring USMCA-compliant products to keep them duty-free. UPS by Shipstation doesn't seem to have an integrated way to submit  the USMCA Certificate of Origin electronically.

This is a huge problem with the deadline fast approaching.

How are other Canadian sellers managing this process? Is there a workaround you've found to ensure compliance?

@CaraAdmin 

[pbjellycars]

I am glad other businesses are worried about it.

We are hoping Ship Station will push to roll this out given the importance for Canadian exporters. 

[CaraAdmin]

Hello @alainsblacksmit!

Thank you for your post in the community! We’ve escalated this to our developers for review and truly appreciate the detailed information you provided. Your feedback helps us continue improving, and we're grateful for your input!

Happy Shipping!

-Cara
 

[UniquelyGeekly]

Shipping from the UK here but would also like to know about functionality for including a certificate of origin electronically when using UPS or others.  Most of my products are made in the US and being shipped back there.

[CaraAdmin · Accepted solution]

Hello @alainsblacksmit!

Thanks for reaching out about the USMCA process. After looking into this further, I can confirm that a USMCA Certificate of Origin is required to qualify goods for duty-free status between the U.S., Mexico, and Canada. Currently, duties and taxes are still calculated at the border, and ShipStation does not provide an estimate for these costs.

For UPS by ShipStation (short term):
Currently, UPS by ShipStation does not have an integrated way to submit a USMCA Certificate of Origin electronically. You’ll need to follow the current process of printing this form outside of ShipStation, as outlined in our Help Center documentation. UPS has provided a sample USMCA Certificate of Origin form to download and fill out here.

Looking ahead (long term):
As part of our ongoing duties and taxes project (expected to wrap up by the end of September), we’re working to add functionality to identify the origin of goods and include this information in the commercial invoice. Once implemented, qualifying shipments should automatically reflect $0 in duties.

Thank you for being a part of the community and raising reasonable concerns and questions!

Happy Shipping!

-Cara

[shopshop]

Hi @CaraAdmin ,

Can you clarify, will the long term solution all ow upload of USMCA Certificate of Origin electronically? 

We have been including physical copies but the shipments have still been charged  with full IEEPA tariffs.

[CoreFabrics]

With the revoking of the de minimis clause on August 29th, this has become an existential issue. Going forward any package without the Manufacturer information, and the CUSMA information included in the Commercial Invoice and/or the Customs form will get stopped at the border. The whole point of using shipstation is to be able to automate the shipping process. Asking us to manually fill out the forms for each order makes the service fairly redundant.

There is also non-CUSMA information missing from the Commercial Invoice and Customs Forms. We already are having to provide per item additional information for goods made in China that does not appear on the forms automatically generated by shipstation to customs, which creates delays for our customers and significantly slows down both our customer service and fulfilment teams.

Once this information is required for all items, our teams will not be able to keep up with this additional burden. This should be a relatively easy fix for Shipstation. Even just making the Commercial Invoice and Custom form modifiable and allowing us to add our own per-product fields would solve it.

[alainsblacksmit]

Shipstation has been dragging their feet on these features for a long time. There are forum threads asking about them going back years and years.

Now it’s catching up to them, and their platform is basically unusable for many Canadian sellers. Hopefully, this will finally motivate them to get their ducks in a row.

[Superba6060842]

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• As of August 29, 2025 Canada Post has partnered with Zonos Prepay App to calculate and pay duties and obtain a unique "Declaration ID" for all USA small packet and parcel shipments. Without this Declaration ID Number Canada Post retail offices will not be able to process any USA bound shipments. 
• Canada Post also requires you to complete your customs form online canadapost.ca/customs or using the Canada Post app. 

The Zonos Prepay App is currently the only application authorized by the U.S. Customs Border Protection Agency to collect Duty/Tariffs payment for USA bound shipments Duty/Tariffs and submit relevant HS codes for all product categories, depending on shipment contents. This mandate applies to all shippers, not just Canada Post. 

[Superba6060842]

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