Customs Tariff (S.C. 1997, c. 36)

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Marginal note:Other orders

  • 134. (1) The Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness or President of the Canada Border Services Agency may, by order, suspend for a specified period a tariff item referred to in Supplementary Note 2(c) of Chapter 7 of the List of Tariff Provisions, and bring into force for the period one or more tariff items referred to in Supplementary Note 2(b) of that Chapter, in respect of goods that are imported through a customs office in a region or part of Canada specified in the order during that period.

  • Marginal note:Other orders

    (2) The Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness or President of the Canada Border Services Agency may, by order, suspend for a specified period a tariff item referred to in Supplementary Note 4(c) of Chapter 8 of the List of Tariff Provisions, and bring into force for the period one or more tariff items referred to in Supplementary Note 4(b) of that Chapter, in respect of goods that are imported through a customs office in a region or part of Canada specified in the order during that period.

  • 1997, c. 36, s. 134;
  • 1999, c. 17, s. 131;
  • 2005, c. 38, ss. 141, 142, 145.
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Marginal note:Exempt goods

  • 135. (1) An order made under subsection 134(1) or (2) does not apply to goods that

    • (a) before the order comes into force, a person purchased for importation through a customs office in a region or part of Canada specified in the order in the expectation in good faith that the “Free” rate of customs duty set out in a tariff item suspended by the order would apply to the goods; and

    • (b) at the time the order comes into force, were in transit to the purchaser in Canada.

  • Marginal note:Exempt from SIA

    (2) An order referred to in subsection 134(1) or (2) is deemed not to be a regulation within the meaning of the Statutory Instruments Act.

PART 5

PROHIBITED GOODS

Marginal note:Prohibited imports

  • 136. (1) The importation of goods of tariff item No. 9897.00.00, 9898.00.00 or 9899.00.00 is prohibited.

  • Marginal note:Subsection 10(1) does not apply

    (2) Subsection 10(1) does not apply in respect of goods referred to in subsection (1).

PART 6

TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS

Definition of “former Act”

137. In sections 140 and 143 to 146, “former Act” means the Customs Tariff as it read immediately before the coming into force of section 214.

  • 1997, c. 36, s. 137;
  • 2011, c. 24, s. 135.
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