U.S. tariffs squeeze Canadian cabinet makers facing doubling of Trump duty

CTV News · Reuters Staff · 2026-11-05 20:09 UTC

U.S. tariffs on Canadian kitchen cabinets are set to double to 50 per cent on Jan. 1, threatening thousands of small manufacturers that employ almost 25,000 people.

ST CATHERINES, Ont. -- Alain Ouzilleau spent 40 years building Cabico into one of Canada’s biggest kitchen cabinet makers. Now, he is reluctantly weighing something he has never before considered: moving production to the United States.

U.S. tariffs on Canadian kitchen cabinets are set to double to 50 per cent on Jan. 1, threatening thousands of small manufacturers that employ almost 25,000 people, Ouzilleau said.

Cabico shipped 90 per cent of its products to the U.S. before President Donald Trump returned to office and began imposing tariffs on Canadian goods. Now the threat of more tariffs poses an existential risk to the Quebec-based company and many of its peers, Ouzilleau said.

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