Deadline Date: 31 December 2026
The Regional Tariff Response Initiative in British Columbia is designed to help businesses and organizations adapt to global trade disruptions and strengthen long-term economic resilience.
The initiative focuses on boosting productivity and reducing costs, building more resilient supply chains, expanding and diversifying into new markets, strengthening domestic trade, improving competitiveness, and enabling businesses to adapt operations to changing international trade conditions.
The initiative provides repayable contributions ranging from $200,000 to $10 million per project for commercial business activities, along with non-repayable contributions ranging from $200,000 to $1 million per project for eligible commercial projects. For non-profit organizations undertaking non-commercial projects that support SMEs, funding of up to $10 million per project is available.
The funding supports activities that improve productivity through digitization, automation, and technology adoption, help businesses expand into new markets, optimize global supply chains, strengthen domestic supply chains, support internal trade, and enable reshoring of production, research and development, and skilled talent recruitment.
Eligible costs may be retroactively covered for up to 12 months before application, provided they were not incurred before March 21, 2025. Project timelines must start no earlier than March 21, 2025 and be completed by March 31, 2028.
Eligible applicants include incorporated for-profit businesses operating in British Columbia with 10 to 499 full-time employees, at least three years of continuous and viable operations prior to March 21, 2025, and a minimum of two years of externally prepared or reviewed financial statements.
Eligible not-for-profit organizations must support small- and medium-sized enterprises. Applicants or the businesses they support must have been viable before March 21, 2025 and must either generate at least 25 percent of sales from the United States and/or China or demonstrate impact or potential impact from trade disruptions, including tariffs or countermeasures.
For more information, visit Government of Canada.
