CFIA AIRS Updates, 23 April

April 23, 2015

a) Chapter 06 was published to add the end uses "In Transit through Canada to a third country" to the following HS codes originating from the United States.
 
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.
 
b) Chapter 07 was published to add the end uses "In Transit through Canada to a third country" to the following HS codes originating from the United States.
 
07.01 - Potatoes, fresh or chilled
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.
 
c) Chapter 08 was published to add the end uses "In Transit through Canada to a third country" to the following HS codes originating from the United States.
 
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
08.03 - Bananas, including plantains, fresh or dried.
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
08.07 - Melons (including watermelons) and papaws (papayas), fresh
08.08 - Apples, pears and quinces, fresh
08.09 - Apricots, cherries, peaches (including nectarines), plums and sloes, fresh.
08.10 - Other fruit, fresh
08.11 - Fruit and nuts, uncooked or cooked by steaming or boiling in water, frozen, whether or not containing added sugar or other sweetening matter
08.12 - Fruit and nuts, 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
08.13 - Fruit, dried, other than that of heading Nos. 08.01 to 08.06; mixtures of nuts or dried fruits of this Chapter
08.14 - Peel of citrus fruit or melons (including watermelons), fresh, frozen, dried or provisionally preserved in brine, in sulphur water or in other preservative solutions
 
d) Chapter 10 was published to add the end uses "In Transit through Canada to a third country" to the following HS codes originating from the United States.
 
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.
 
e) Chapter 12 was published to add the end uses "In Transit through Canada to a third country" to the following HS codes originating from the United States.
 
12.01 - Soya beans, whether or not broken
12.02 - Ground-nuts, not roasted or otherwise cooked, whether or not shelled or broken
12.03 - Copra
12.04 - Linseed, whether or not broken
12.05 - Rape or colza seeds, whether or not broken
12.06 - Sunflower seeds, whether or not broken
12.07 - Other oil seeds and oleaginous fruits, whether or not broken
12.08 - Flours and meals of oil seeds or oleaginous fruits, other than those of mustard
12.09 - Seeds, fruit and spores, of a kind used for sowing
12.10 - Hop cones, fresh or dried, whether or not ground, powdered or in the form of pellets; lupulin
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
12.13 - Cereal straw and husks, unprepared, whether or not chopped, ground, pressed or in the form of pellets
12.14 - Swedes, mangolds, fodder roots, hay, lucerne (alfalfa), clover, sainfoin, forage kale, lupines, vetches and similar forage products, whether or not in the form of pellets
 
f) Chapter 23 was published modify the import conditions for the following HS codes with the end use “Other end uses" originating from United States.
 
23.09.10.1565.01 - Avian (bird) ingredients other than egg products
23.09.10.1565.03 - Caprine (goat) ingredients
23.09.10.1565.04 - Equine (horse) ingredients
23.09.10.1565.05 - Ovine (sheep) ingredients
23.09.10.1565.06 - Porcine (swine) ingredients
23.09.10.1565.08 - Fish or crustaceans ingredients
23.09.10.1565.99 - Other animal ingredients
23.09.10.1566.01 - Avian (bird) ingredients other than egg products
23.09.10.1566.03 - Caprine (goat) ingredients
23.09.10.1566.04 - Equine (horse) ingredients
23.09.10.1566.05 - Ovine (sheep) ingredients
23.09.10.1566.06 - Porcine (swine) ingredients
23.09.10.1566.08 - Fish or crustaceans ingredients
23.09.10.1566.99 - Other animal ingredients
23.09.90.1565.01 - Avian (bird) ingredients other than egg products
23.09.90.1565.03 - Caprine (goat) ingredients
23.09.90.1565.04 - Equine (horse) ingredients
23.09.90.1565.05 - Ovine (sheep) ingredients
23.09.90.1565.06 - Porcine (swine) ingredients
23.09.90.1565.08 - Fish or crustaceans ingredients
23.09.90.1565.99 - Other animal ingredients
23.09.90.1566.01 - Avian (bird) ingredients other than egg products
23.09.90.1566.03 - Caprine (goat) ingredients
23.09.90.1566.04 - Equine (horse) ingredients
23.09.90.1566.05 - Ovine (sheep) ingredients
23.09.90.1566.06 - Porcine (swine) ingredients
23.09.90.1566.08 - Fish or crustaceans ingredients
23.09.90.1566.99 - Other animal ingredients
23.09.90.1570.01 - Avian (bird) ingredients other than egg products
23.09.90.1570.03 - Caprine (goat) ingredients
23.09.90.1570.04 - Equine (horse) ingredients
23.09.90.1570.05 - Ovine (sheep) ingredients
23.09.90.1570.06 - Porcine (swine) ingredients
23.09.90.1570.08 - Fish or crustaceans ingredients
23.09.90.1570.99 - Other animal ingredients
23.09.90.6208.02 - Containing ingredients of animal origin other than bovine ingredients
23.09.90.6209.02 - Containing ingredients of animal origin other than bovine ingredients
 
This created a requirement version change to the same HS codes listed above originating from the United States.
 
g) Chapter 25 was published to add the end uses "In Transit through Canada to a third country" to the following HS code originating from the United States.
 
25.30.90.0223 - Soil
 
h) Chapter 35 was published to change the release recommendation to "Refuse entry" for the following HS code originating from the states of Iowa, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota and Wisconsin.
 
35.02.11.0286.02 - unpasteurized
35.02.11.0287.02 - unpasteurized
35.02.11.0288 - Egg albumin, dried, containing less than 50% egg albumin
35.02.19.0290.02 - unpasteurized
 
This created a requirement version change to the same HS code listed above originating from the United States.
 
i) Chapter 44 was published to;
 
i) add the end uses "In Transit through Canada to a third country" to the following HS codes originating from the United States.
 
44.01 - Fuel wood, in logs, in billets, in twigs, in faggots or in similar forms; wood in chips or particles; sawdust and wood waste and scrap, whether or not agglomerated in logs, briquettes, pellets or similar forms.
44.02 - Wood charcoal (including shell or nut charcoal), whether or not agglomerated.
44.03 - Wood in the rough, whether or not stripped of bark or sapwood, or roughly squared.
44.04 - Hoopwood; split poles; piles, pickets and stakes of wood, pointed but not sawn lengthwise; wooden sticks, roughly trimmed but not turned, bent or otherwise worked, suitable for the manufacture of walking-sticks, umbrellas, tool handles or the like; chipwood and the like.
44.05 - Wood wool; wood flour
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.
44.08 - Sheets for veneering (including those obtained by slicing laminated wood), for plywood or for similar laminated wood and other wood, sawn legthwise, sliced or peeled, whether or not planed, sanded, spliced or end-jointed, of a thickness not exceeding 6 mm.
44.09 - Wood (including strips and friezes for parquet flooring, not assembled) continuously shaped (tongued, grooved, rebated, champhered, V-jointed, beaded, moulded, rounded or the like) along any of its edges, ends or faces, whether or not planned, sanded or end-jointed
44.10 - Particle board, oriented strand board (OSB) and similar board (for example, waferboard) of wood or other ligneous materials, whether or not agglomerated with resins or other organic binding substances
44.11 - Fibreboard of wood or other ligneous materials, whether or not bonded with resins or other organic substances.
44.12 - Plywood, veneered panels and similar laminated wood.
44.13 - Densified wood, in blocks, plates, strips or profile shapes.
44.14 - Wooden frames for paintings, photographs, mirrors or similar objects.
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.
44.16 - Casks, barrels, vats, tubs and other coopers' products and parts thereof, of wood, including staves.
44.17 - Tools, tool bodies, tool handles, broom or brush bodies and handles, of wood; boot or shoe lasts and trees, of wood.
44.18 - Builders' joinery and carpentry of wood, including cellular wood panels, assembled flooring panels, shingles and shakes.
44.19 - Tableware and kitchenware, of wood.
44.20 - Wood marquetry and inlaid wood; caskets and cases for jewellery or cutlery, and similar articles, of wood; statuettes and other ornaments, of wood; wooden articles of furniture not falling in Chapter 94.
44.21 - Other articles of wood.
 
ii) add the new miscellaneous codes "With bark - from an area not regulated for Asian long-horned beetle" and "Without bark - from an area not regulated for Asian long-horned beetle" to the following HS codes originating from the states of Massachusetts, New York and Ohio.
 
44.03.99.0131.01 - Elm - other products such as logs. (Ulmus spp., Zelkova spp.)
 
New miscellaneous codes:
945 - With bark - from an area not regulated for Asian long-horned beetle
946 - Without bark - from an area not regulated for Asian long-horned beetle
 
Please verify your version numbers before submitting through EDI.
 
If you have any questions, please contact your National Import Service Centre.


Topic(s): 
Release / System Updates/Outages & Delays at the Border
Information Source: 
Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA)
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