Tariff Notice - TN-47

December 11, 2009

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The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) wishes to advise you of an upcoming release related to the Departmental Consolidation of the Customs Tariff (hereafter referred to as the Tariff).

There are no numbering changes to the Customs Tariff effective January 1, 2010, only staged duty rate reductions. As these are relatively few in number, rather than re-issue a complete January 1, 2010 version of the Tariff the only pages with that date will be those affected by a rates change.

The revised files will be available shortly on the CBSA website, in the following formats:

• The chapter by chapter Tariff files (PDF),
• The single file Tariff (PDF),
• The Win zipped Microsoft Access file, and
• The CADEX formatted file.

Attached please find a list of the tariff items impacted; the revised rates of duty will be available in the Tariff itself.

Public Works and Government Services Canada will be issuing an amendment package (i.e., only those pages with changes) for the printed version of the Tariff.

The House of Commons has before it bills relating to two possible free trade agreements that, if implemented, would create new Tariff Treatments impacting most if not all of the Tariff and would therefore necessitate issuing a complete Tariff at that time.

Each edition of, or amendment package to, the Tariff is based upon the information available at the time of publishing. Any changes made subsequently will be reflected in another edition or amendment package, as appropriate.

For further information regarding the publication of the Tariff, please contact Grant Tebbutt, Manager, International Nomenclature Development & Tariff Publishing at (613) 952-3655.

List of the Tariff Items Impacted

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