Regulations Amending the Regulations Defining Certain Expressions for the Purposes of the Customs Tariff: SOR/2019-279

Canada Gazette, Part II, Volume 153, Number 17

Registration

SOR/2019-279 July 30, 2019

CUSTOMS TARIFF

P.C. 2019-1118 July 26, 2019

Her Excellency the Governor General in Council, on the recommendation of the Minister of Finance, pursuant to subsection 52(1) of the Customs Tariff ^{footnote a}, makes the annexed Regulations Amending the Regulations Defining Certain Expressions for the Purposes of the Customs Tariff.

Regulations Amending the Regulations Defining Certain Expressions for the Purposes of the Customs Tariff

Amendments

1 The definition imported from Israel or another CIFTA beneficiary in section 1 of the Regulations Defining Certain Expressions for the Purposes of the Customs Tariff ^{footnote 1} is replaced by the following:

• imported from Israel or another CIFTA beneficiary means, in respect of goods,
  • (a) goods that are shipped to Canada from Israel or another CIFTA beneficiary without shipment through another country;
  • (b) goods that are shipped to Canada from Israel or another CIFTA beneficiary through another country, other than through the territory of a non-Party, if
    • (i) the goods do not undergo further production or any other operation in the territory of that other country, other than unloading, splitting up of loads, reloading or any other operation necessary to preserve them in good condition or to ship them to Canada, and
    • (ii) the goods remain under customs control in that other country;
  • (c) goods that are shipped to Canada from Israel or another CIFTA beneficiary through the territory of a non-Party, except for goods listed in any of Chapters 50 through 63 of the List of Tariff Provisions, if
    • (i) the goods do not undergo further production other than minor processing in the territory of that non-Party, or
    • (ii) any processing that occurs in the territory of that non-Party with respect to that good does not increase the transaction value of the goods by greater than 10%; or
  • (d) goods listed in any of Chapters 50 through 63 of the List of Tariff Provisions that are shipped to Canada from Israel or another CIFTA beneficiary through the territory of a non-Party, if
    • (i) the goods do not undergo further production or any other operation in the territory of that non-Party, other than unloading, splitting up of loads, reloading or any other operation necessary to preserve them in good condition or to ship them to Canada, and
    • (ii) the goods remain under customs control while in the territory of that non-Party. (importé d’Israël ou d’un autre bénéficiaire de l’ALÉCI)

2 Section 1.1 of the Regulations is replaced by the following:

1.1 For the purposes of section 1, non-Party has the same meaning as in section 1 of the CIFTA Tariff Preference Regulations.

Coming into Force

3 These Regulations come into force on the day on which the Act to amend the Canada-Israel Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act and to make related amendments to other Acts, chapter 6 of the Statutes of Canada, 2019, comes into force, but if they are registered after that day, they come into force on the day on which they are registered.

N.B. The Regulatory Impact Analysis Statement for these Regulations appears following SOR/2019-276, CIFTA Rules of Origin Regulations.