Update to CFIA AIRS Website

September 22, 2010

a) Chapter 07 was published to add the miscellaneous code "Up to 15 packages with combined weight of up to 250 kg" for the following HS Codes with the end use of "Travellers & Personal use and not for resale or distribution".

07.10 - Vegetables (uncooked or cooked by steaming or boiling in water), frozen

07.11.51 - Mushrooms and truffles: Mushrooms of the genus Agaricus

07.14.10.3045 - Manioc (cassava) (frozen or dried)

07.14.20.3042 - Sweet potato (frozen or dried)

07.14.90.0006.06 - Yam (tuber) (frozen)

07.14.90.3100 - Water chestnuts (frozen)

b) Chapter 08 was published to add the miscellaneous code "Up to 15 packages with combined weight of up to 250 kg" for the following HS Codes with the end use of "Travellers & Personal use and not for resale or distribution".

08.11.10 - Strawberries (frozen)

08.11.20 - Raspberries, blackberries, mulberries, loganberries, black, white or red currants and gooseberries (frozen)

08.11.90 - Other (frozen)

c) Chapter 20 was published to add the miscellaneous code "Up to 15 packages with combined weight of up to 250 kg" for the following HS Codes with the end use of "Travellers & Personal use and not for resale or distribution".

20.01 - Vegetables, fruit, nuts and other edible parts of plants, prepared or preserved by vinegar or acetic acid

20.02 - Tomatoes prepared or preserved otherwise than by vinegar or acetic acid

20.03 - Mushrooms and truffles, prepared or preserved otherwise than by vinegar or acetic acid

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

20.06 - Vegetables, fruit, nuts, fruit-peel and other parts of plants, preserved by sugar (drained, glacé or crystallised)

20.07 - Jams, fruit jellies, marmalades, fruit or nut purée and fruit or nut pastes, obtained by cooking, whether or not containing added sugar or other sweetening matter

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

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If you have any questions, please contact your Import Service Centre.


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Release / System Updates/Outages & Delays at the Border
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