Update to CFIA AIRS Website

June 17, 2011

a) Chapter 03 was published to modify the import conditions for the following HS codes originating from Japan.

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 19 was published to modify the import conditions for the following HS codes originating from Japan.

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

c) Chapter 21 was published to modify the import conditions for the following HS codes originating from Japan.

21.01 - Extracts, essences and concentrates, of coffee, tea or maté and preparations with a basis of these products or with a basis of coffee, tea or maté; roasted chicory and other roasted coffee substitutes, and extracts, essences and concentrates thereof

21.02 - Yeasts (active or inactive); other single-cell micro-organisms, dead (but not including vaccines of heading No. 30.02); prepared baking powders

21.03 - Sauces and preparations thereof; mixed condiments and mixed seasonings; mustard flour and meal and prepared mustard

21.04 - Soups and broths and preparations therefor; homogenized composite food preparations

21.05 - Ice cream and other edible ice, whether or not containing cocoa

21.06 - Food preparations not elsewhere specified or included

d) Chapter 22 was published to modify the import conditions for the following HS codes originating from Japan.

22.01 - Waters, including natural or artificial mineral waters and aerated waters, not containing added sugar or other sweetening matter nor flavoured; ice and snow

22.02 - Waters, including mineral waters and aerated waters, containing added sugar or other sweetening matter or flavoured, and other non-alcoholic beverages, not including fruit or vegetable juices of heading No. 20.09

22.03 - Beer made from malt

22.04 - Wine of fresh grapes, including fortified wines; grape must other than that of heading No. 20.09

22.05 - Vermouth and other wine of fresh grapes flavoured with plants or aromatic substances

22.06 - Other fermented beverages (for example, cider, perry, mead); mixtures of fermented beverages and mixtures of fermented beverages and non-alcoholic beverages, not elsewhere specified or included

22.08 - Undenatured ethyl alcohol of an alcoholic strength by volume of less than 80% vol; spirits, liqueurs and other spirituous beverages

22.09 - Vinegar and substitutes for vinegar obtained from acetic acid 

e) Chapter 23 was published to modify the import conditions for the following HS codes originating from Japan.

23.01 - Flours, meals and pellets, of meat or meat offal, of fish or of crustaceans, molluscs or other aquatic invertebrates, unfit for human consumption; greaves

23.02 - Bran, sharps and other residues, whether or not in the form of pellets, derived from the sifting, milling or other working of cereals or of leguminous plants

23.03 - Residues of starch manufacture and similar residues, beet-pulp, bagasse and other waste of sugar manufacture, brewing or distilling dregs and waste, whether or not in the form of pellets

23.04 - Oil-cake and other solid residues, whether or not ground or in the form of pellets, resulting from the extraction of soya-bean oil

23.05 - Oil-cake and other solid residues, whether or not ground or in the form of pellets, resulting from the extraction of ground-nut oil

23.06 - Oil-cake and other solid residues, whether or not ground or in the form of pellets, resulting from the extraction of vegetable fats or oils, other than those of heading No. 23.04 or 23.05

23.07 - Wine lees; argol

23.08 - Vegetable materials and vegetable waste, vegetable residues and by-products, whether or not in the form of pellets, of a kind used in animal feeding, not elsewhere specified or included

23.09 - Preparations of a kind used in animal feeding

Please check your version number before submitting through EDI.

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

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