CMCO Group

Canadian Made, Canadian Owned

CMCO Group is the collective voice of Canada’s Canadian-owned electrical and electronic wire and cable manufacturers — five companies, more than 700 people, and manufacturing plants across Ontario and Quebec.

Together, our members represent the entire Canadian-owned segment of this country’s wire and cable manufacturing industry. We compete with each other every day. We speak with one voice when the future of domestic manufacturing is at stake.

Two threats at once

Since 22 August 2026, a 50% United States tariff imposed under Section 338 has applied to Canadian-made residential, commercial and industrial cable (HTS 8544.49.30), with no exemption under CUSMA. At the same time, our members face mounting pressure at home from dumped and unfairly priced imports from non-market economies.

Either pressure alone would be serious. Together they put the domestic-owned sector, and the jobs it supports, at risk.

Canadian-owned cable manufacturing is squeezed from two sides: dumped and unfairly priced imports arriving in the Canadian market, and a 50 percent United States tariff on cable leaving it. Canadian-owned cable manufacturing Dumped and unfairly priced imports 50% U.S. tariff on our exports UNDERCUTS US AT HOME SHUTS US OUT ABROADCanadian-owned cable manufacturing is squeezed from two sides: dumped and unfairly priced imports arriving in the Canadian market, and a 50 percent United States tariff on cable leaving it. Dumped and unfairly priced imports UNDERCUTS US AT HOME Canadian-owned cable manufacturing 50% U.S. tariff on our exports SHUTS US OUT ABROAD

What we are asking government to do

  • Mandate Canadian-made cable in publicly funded projects — infrastructure and clean energy built with public money should be built with Canadian cable.
  • Carry our case to Washington — press for removal of the Section 338 tariffs.
  • Remove Canada’s 50% tariffs on our raw material inputs — immediately.
  • Strengthen trade defence — faster, better-resourced action against dumped imports.

None of this is a request for advantage. What we are asking for is a level playing field — one on which any manufacturer, here or elsewhere, competes on the merits of what it makes rather than on a distortion in its favour. Today the field is tilted against manufacturing in Canada, and that is what we are asking government to correct.

Read the detail behind each request, or read our joint letter to government (PDF).