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Regulations Amending the Energy Efficiency Regulations

Official title

Regulations Amending the Energy Efficiency Regulations, 2016 (Amendment 19), 230 pages, available in English and French, accessible online.

Canada notified this proposed TBT measure to the WTO on 23 June 2026. The comment period closed on 29 August 2026.

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At a glance

Products

Energy efficiency standards for residential, commercial and industrial products: Air cleaners (HS: 8421.39); Computer room air conditioners (HS: 8415.82, 8415.10); Clothes dryers (HS: 8451.21); Pool heaters (HS: 8516.10, 8418.61, 8419.11, 8419.19, 8516.79); Pool pump motors (HS: 8501.40, 8501.51, 85

HS codes
  • 73 · Iron or steel articles
    • 7321 Stoves, ranges, grates, cookers, incl. those with subsidiary boilers for central heating, barbecues, braziers, gas rings, plate warmers and similar…
    • 7322 Radiators for central heating, non-electrically heated, and parts thereof, of iron or steel; air heaters and hot-air distributors, incl. distributors which…
All 17 codes
  • 84 · Machinery and mechanical appliances, boilers, nuclear reactors; parts thereof
    • 8414 Air or vacuum pumps (excl. gas compound elevators and pneumatic elevators and conveyors); air or other gas compressors and fans; ventilating or recycling…
    • 8415 Air conditioning machines comprising a motor-driven fan and elements for changing the temperature and humidity, incl. those machines in which the humidity…
    • 8418 Refrigerators, freezers and other refrigerating or freezing equipment, electric or other; heat pumps; parts thereof (excl. air conditioning machines of…
    • 8419 Machinery, plant or laboratory equipment whether or not electrically heated (excl. furnaces, ovens and other equipment of heading 8514), for the treatment of…
    • 8421 Centrifuges, incl. centrifugal dryers (excl. those for isotope separation); filtering or purifying machinery and apparatus, for liquids or gases; parts…
    • 8422 Dishwashing machines; machinery for cleaning or drying bottles or other containers; machinery for filling, closing, sealing or labelling bottles, cans, boxes…
    • 8450 Household or laundry-type washing machines, incl. machines which both wash and dry; parts thereof
    • 8451 Machinery (excl. of heading 8450) for washing, cleaning, wringing, drying, ironing, pressing incl. fusing presses, bleaching, dyeing, dressing, finishing…
    • 8479 Machines and mechanical appliances having individual functions, not specified or included elsewhere in this chapter; parts thereof
  • 85 · Electrical machinery and equipment and parts thereof; sound recorders and reproducers; television image and sound recorders and reproducers, parts and accessories of such articles
    • 8501 Electric motors and generators (excl. generating sets)
    • 8504 Electrical transformers, static converters, e.g. rectifiers, and inductors; parts thereof
    • 8516 Electric instantaneous or storage water heaters and immersion heaters; electric space-heating apparatus and soil-heating apparatus; electro-thermic…
    • 8528 Monitors and projectors, not incorporating television reception apparatus; reception apparatus for television, whether or not incorporating radio-broadcast…
    • 8539 Electric filament or discharge lamps, incl. sealed beam lamp units and ultraviolet or infra-red lamps; arc lamps; light-emitting diode 'LED' light sources…
  • 90 · Optical, photographic, cinematographic, measuring, checking, medical or surgical instruments and apparatus; parts and accessories
    • 9032 Regulating or controlling instruments and apparatus (excl. taps, cocks and valves of heading 8481)
Notifying member
Canada
Status
Proposed measure, not in force yet
Objectives
  • Other
Area
TBT: Technical product rulesTechnical barriers to trade
Notification type
Regular notification
Document symbol
G/TBT/N/CAN/780

Key dates

Distributed by the WTO
Comment deadline
Closed on 29 August 2026
Proposed adoption
Normally within 12 months of publication in the Canada Gazette, Part I.
Proposed entry into force
These Regulations would come into force six months after the day on which they are published in the Canada Gazette, Part II.

How to comment

The comment period closed on 29 August 2026. You can still raise concerns about the measure with your country's WTO TBT enquiry point, quoting the document symbol G/TBT/N/CAN/780; it can take them up with Canada.

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What the notification says

The Energy Efficiency Regulations, 2016 (the Regulations) prescribe energy efficiency and testing standards for residential, commercial and industrial energy-using products. They also prescribe labelling requirements for certain products to disclose and compare the energy use of a given product model relative to others in their category. The Regulations are amended regularly to introduce or update energy efficiency and testing standards. This proposed amendment (Amendment 19) would: Introduce new products into the Regulations with associated requirements for energy efficiency standards, testing standards, verification, labelling, and provision of information; Expand the scope, introduce, or update energy efficiency and testing standards of some currently regulated products; Allow regulated parties to voluntarily comply with the new requirements earlier by including an early compliance option; and; Support trade, regulatory implementation and burden reduction through actions like grouping similar products by function and withdrawing outdated standards.

Sources

Expodite writes its summary from the official record. The notification and the documents it notifies are on the WTO's own websites.

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