a) Chapter 03 was published to modify the import conditions for the following HS Codes for Japan. This created requirement version changes for other countries.

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.

03.04 - Fish fillets and other fish meat (whether or not minced), fresh, chilled or frozen

03.05 - Fish, dried, salted or in brine; smoked fish, whether or not cooked before or during the smoking process; flours, meals and pellets of fish, fit for human consumption

03.06 - Crustaceans, whether in shell or not, live, fresh, chilled, frozen, dried, salted or in brine; crustaceans, in shell, cooked by steaming or by boiling in water, whether or not chilled, frozen, dried, salted or in brine; flours, meals and pellets of crustaceans, fit for human consumption

03.07 - Molluscs, whether in shell or not, live, fresh, chilled, frozen, dried, salted or in brine; aquatic invertebrates other than crustaceans and molluscs, live, fresh, chilled, frozen, dried, salted or in brine; flours, meals and pellets of aquatic invertebrates other than crustaceans, fit for human consumption.

b) Chapter 09 was published to modify the import conditions for the following HS Codes for Japan. This created requirement version changes for other countries.

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.

09.03 - Maté

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.

c) Chapter 19 was published to modify the import conditions for the following HS Codes for Japan. This created requirement version changes for other countries.

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

19.03 - Tapioca and substitutes therefor prepared from starch, in the form of flakes, grains, pearls, siftings or in similar forms

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

Please check your version number before submitting through EDI.

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

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