CFIA AIRS Updates, 15 December

December 15, 2015

The chapters listed below were modified to add the following destination: Nunavut. The modification resulted in a requirement version change for the following HS codes:

Chapter 01:
01.01 - Live horses, asses, mules and hinnies
01.06 - Other live animals

Chapter 03:
03.01 - Live fish
03.02 - Fish, fresh or chilled, excluding fish fillets and other fish meat of heading No. 03.04.
03.03 - Fish, frozen, excluding fish fillets and other fish meat of heading No. 03.04.
03.06 - Crustaceans, whether in shell or not, live, fresh, chilled, frozen, dried, salted or in brine; smoked crustaceans, whether in shell or not, whether or not cooked before or during the smoking process; crustaceans, in shell, cooked by steaming or by bo crustaceans, fit for human consumption
03.07 - Molluscs, whether in shell or not, live, fresh, chilled, frozen, dried, salted or in brine; smoked molluscs, whether in shell or not, whether or not cooked before or during the smoking process; flours, meals and pellets of molluscs, fit for human con invertebrates other than crustaceans, fit for human consumption.

Chapter 06:
06.01 - Bulbs, tubers, tuberous roots, corms, crowns and rhizomes, dormant, in growth or in flower; chicory plants and roots other than roots of heading No. 12.12.
06.02 - Other live plants (including their roots), cuttings and slips; mushroom spawn.
06.03 - Cut flowers and flower buds of a kind suitable for bouquets or for ornamental purposes, fresh, dried, dyed, bleached, impregnated or otherwise prepared.
06.04 - Foliage, branches and other parts of plants, without flowers or flower buds, and grasses, mosses and lichens, being goods of a kind suitable for bouquets or for ornamental purposes, fresh, dried, dyed, bleached, impregnated or otherwise prepared.

Chapter 07:
07.02 - Tomatoes, fresh or chilled
07.03 - Onions, shallots, garlic, leeks and other alliaceous vegetables, fresh or chilled
07.04 - Cabbages, cauliflowers, kohlrabi, kale and similar edible brassicas, fresh or chilled.
07.05 - Lettuce (Lactuca sativa) and chicory (Cichorium spp.), fresh or chilled.
07.06 - Carrots, turnips, salad beetroot, salsify, celeriac, radishes and similar edible roots, fresh or chilled.
07.07 - Cucumbers and gherkins, fresh or chilled.
07.08 - Leguminous vegetables, shelled or unshelled, fresh or chilled.
07.09 - Other vegetables, fresh or chilled.
07.10 - Vegetables (uncooked or cooked by steaming or boiling in water), frozen.
07.11 - Vegetables provisionally preserved (for example, by sulphur dioxide gas, in brine, in sulphur water or in other preservative solutions), but unsuitable in that state for immediate consumption.
07.12 - Dried vegetables, whole, cut, sliced, broken or in powder, but not further prepared.
07.13 - Dried leguminous vegetables, shelled, whether or not skinned or split.
07.14 - Manioc, arrowroot, salep, Jerusalem artichokes, sweet potatoes and similar roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, fresh, chilled, frozen or dried, whether or not sliced or in the form of pellets; sago pith.

Chapter 08:
08.01 - Coconuts, Brazil nuts and cashew nuts, fresh or dried, whether or not shelled or peeled.
08.02 - Other nuts, fresh or dried, whether or not shelled or peeled
08.04 - Dates, figs, pineapples, avocados, guavas, mangoes and mangosteens, fresh or dried.
08.05 - Citrus fruit, fresh or dried
08.06 - Grapes, fresh or dried
08.08 - Apples, pears and quinces, fresh
08.09 - Apricots, cherries, peaches (including nectarines), plums and sloes, fresh.
08.10 - Other fruit, fresh

Chapter 09:
09.01 - Coffee, whether or not roasted or decaffeinated; coffee husks and skins; coffee substitutes containing coffee in any proportion.
09.02 - Tea, whether or not flavoured.
09.04 - Pepper of the genus Piper; dried or crushed or ground fruits of the genus Capsicum or of the genus Pimenta
09.05 - Vanilla.
09.06 - Cinnamon and cinnamon-tree flowers.
09.07 - Cloves (whole fruit, cloves and stems).
09.08 - Nutmeg, mace and cardamoms.
09.09 - Seeds of anise, badian, fennel, coriander, cumin or caraway; juniper berries.
09.10 - Ginger, saffron, turmeric (curcuma), thyme, bay leaves, curry and other spices.

Chapter 10:
10.01 - Wheat and meslin
10.02 - Rye
10.03 - Barley
10.04 - Oats
10.05 - Maize (corn)
10.06 - Rice
10.07 - Grain sorghum
10.08 - Buckwheat, millet and canary seed; other cereals.

Chapter 11:
11.01 - Wheat or meslin flour
11.02 - Cereal flours other than of wheat or meslin.
11.03 - Cereal groats, meal and pellets.
11.04 - Cereal grains otherwise worked (for example, hulled, rolled, flaked, pearled, sliced or kibbled), except rice of heading No. 10.06; germ of cereals, whole, rolled, flaked or ground.
11.05 - Flour, meal, powder, flakes, granules and pellets of potatoes
11.06 - Flour, meal and powder of the dried leguminous vegetables of heading No. 07.13, of sago or of roots or tubers of heading No. 07.14 or of the products of Chapter 8.
11.07 - Malt, whether or not roasted.
11.08 - Starches; inulin.

Chapter 12:
12.09 - Seeds, fruit and spores, of a kind used for sowing
12.11 - Plants and parts of plants (including seeds and fruits), of a kind used primarily in perfumery, in pharmacy or for insecticidal, fungicidal or similar purposes, fresh or dried, whether or not cut, crushed or powdered
12.12 - Locust beans, seaweeds and other algae, sugar beet and sugar cane, fresh, chilled, frozen or dried, whether or not ground; fruit stones and kernels and other vegetable products (including unroasted chicory roots of the variety <Cichorium> <intybus> <sativum>) of a kind used primarily for human consumption, not elsewhere specified or included

Chapter 14:
14.04 - Vegetable products not elsewhere specified or included.

Chapter 16:
16.01 - Sausages and similar products, of meat, meat offal or blood; food preparations based on these products.
16.02 - Other prepared or preserved meat, meat offal or blood.
16.03 - Extracts and juices of meat, fish or crustaceans, molluscs or other aquatic invertebrates.

Chapter 18:
18.01 - Cocoa beans, whole or broken, raw or roasted
18.03 - Cocoa paste, whether or not defatted.
18.04 - Cocoa butter, fat and oil
18.05 - Cocoa powder, not containing added sugar or other sweetening matter.
18.06 - Chocolate and other food preparations containing cocoa.

Chapter 19:
19.01 - Malt extract; food preparations of flour, groats, meal, starch or malt extract, not containing cocoa or containing less than 40% by weight of cocoa calculated on a totally defatted basis, not elsewhere specified or included; food preparations of goods of headings Nos.04.01 to 04.04, not containing cocoa or containing less than 5% by weight of cocoa calculated on a totally defatted basis, not elsewhere specified or included
19.02 - Pasta, whether or not cooked or stuffed (with meat or other substances) or otherwise prepared, such as spaghetti, macaroni, noodles, lasagna, gnocchi, ravioli, cannelloni; couscous, whether or not prepared
19.04 - Prepared foods obtained by the swelling or roasting of cereals or cereal products (for example, corn flakes); cereals (other than maize (corn)) in grain form or in the form of flakes or other worked grains (except flour and meal), pre-cooked, or otherwise prepared, not elsewhere specified or included
19.05 - Bread, pastry, cakes, biscuits and other bakers' wares, whether or not containing cocoa; communion wafers, empty cachets of a kind suitable for pharmaceutical use, sealing wafers, rice paper and similar products

Chapter 20:
20.04 - Other vegetables prepared or preserved otherwise than by vinegar or acetic acid, frozen, other than products of heading No. 20.06
20.05 - Other vegetables prepared or preserved otherwise than by vinegar or acetic acid, not frozen, other than products of heading No. 20.06
20.08 - Fruit, nuts and other edible parts of plants, otherwise prepared or preserved, whether or not containing added sugar or other sweetening matter or spirit, not elsewhere specified or included
20.09 - Fruit juices (including grape must) and vegetable juices, unfermented and not containing added spirit, whether or not containing added sugar or other sweetening matter

Chapter 44:
44.01.21 - Wood in chips or particles: Coniferous
44.01.22 - Wood in chips or particles: Non-coniferous
44.03 - Wood in the rough, whether or not stripped of bark or sapwood, or roughly squared.
44.06 - Railway or tramway sleepers (cross-ties) of wood
44.07 - Wood sawn or chipped lengthwise, sliced or peeled, whether or not planed, sanded or end-jointed, of a thickness exceeding 6 mm.
44.15 - Packing cases, boxes, crates, drums and similar packings, of wood; cable-drums of wood; pallets, box pallets and other load boards, of wood; pallet collars of wood.
44.18.60 - Posts and beams

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