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Purpose and status

• Bill C-13 implements the United Kingdom’s accession protocol to the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) by amending several Canadian laws.
• It received royal assent on May 6, 2026. It comes into force on a date to be fixed by the Governor in Council.

Agreement and financial laws

• The bill updates references to the CPTPP in the Financial Administration Act, Commercial Arbitration Act and CPTPP implementation act to include listed accession protocols. It lists and approves the UK protocol.
• It changes rules affecting foreign banks, bank holding companies, trust and loan companies, and insurers. The Bank Act’s list of relevant countries and territories is replaced with a list based on where specified trade agreements apply, including the Canada–UK Trade Continuity Agreement.
• The Governor in Council may add, delete or amend entries in that list to implement Canada’s international trade obligations. The bill also revises certain exceptions for subsidiaries of foreign banks or regulated foreign entities from listed countries or territories; the supplied text does not describe the underlying requirements.

Customs duties

• The bill creates a Comprehensive and Progressive United Kingdom Tariff for eligible goods and adds it as a tariff treatment for the United Kingdom, Channel Islands and Isle of Man.
• Most tariff items are assigned a duty-free rate. Schedule 2 items are marked “N/A”; Schedule 3 items have specified rates or staging categories.
• For staged items, the bill sets reductions leading generally to duty-free treatment on January 1, 2028 or January 1, 2029, depending on the category. The staged rates cannot apply before the CPTPP takes effect between Canada and the UK. Rounding rules and an early duty-free rule apply in specified cases.
• On the minister’s recommendation, the Governor in Council may extend the UK tariff to goods originating in another CPTPP country. Such an order may be retroactive, but not to a date before the agreement takes effect between Canada and the UK.
• The bill also sets time limits for orders under an existing Customs Tariff provision concerning goods entitled to the new UK tariff.

Review and costs

• A designated or established House of Commons committee must review UK accession and the CPTPP implementation act every three years, and report its findings and recommendations within six months after completing each review.
• The supplied text does not state an estimated cost.