# 2025-03990: Northern Border Tariffs Eased for Canada Amid Drug Crackdown

2025-03990, Amendment to Duties To Address the Flow of Illicit Drugs Across Our Northern Border, is a Federal Register presidential document from Executive Office of the President published 2025-03-11, effective 2025-03-07; PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2026-11-03).

- Canonical: https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-03990
- As of: 2026-11-03
- Plain-text twin of the page above; the HTML and this file carry the same facts.

## Facts
- Document number: 2025-03990
- Title: Amendment to Duties To Address the Flow of Illicit Drugs Across Our Northern Border
- Type: Presidential Document
- Agencies: Executive Office of the President
- Citation: 90 FR 11785
- Published: 2025-03-11
- Effective: 2025-03-07
- Comments close: not stated
- Significant: no
- Touches household money: yes
- Regulation identifier numbers: none
- Last updated: 2026-11-03

## In one line

Northern Border Tariffs Eased for Canada Amid Drug Crackdown

## Summary

This update changes some tariffs to help protect American jobs in the car industry while still tackling illegal drug flow from Canada. Certain Canadian goods, especially automotive parts, won’t face extra taxes, and the tariff on potash drops from 25% to 10%. These changes started on March 7, 2025, balancing trade fairness with border security.

## Effects PRIA read

- Canadian-origin Goods Exempted From Extra Duties: benefit, medium. Goods that qualify as a "good of Canada" under general note 11 to the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States (including treatments in subchapter XXIII of chapter 98 and subchapter XXII of chapter 99 related to the USMCA) will not be subject to the additional ad valorem duties imposed by se…
- Potash Tariff Cut From 25% to 10%: benefit, medium. The additional rate of duty on potash (when not eligible for the general note 11 exemption) is reduced to 10 percent instead of 25 percent. This reduction applies to potash entered for consumption or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption on or after 12:01 a.m. Eastern Standard Time on March 7, 2…

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## Sources
- [2025-03990 on federalregister.gov](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/03/11/2025-03990/amendment-to-duties-to-address-the-flow-of-illicit-drugs-across-our-northern-border)
- [2025-03990 as published (PDF)](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2025-03-11/pdf/2025-03990.pdf)

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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-03990 (as of 2026-11-03).