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CFIA-AIRS Updates December 12th, 2017

A) Chapter 12 was published to add the following OGD extension.
 
12.01.90.0112 - Soybeans, edamame (fresh or chilled). 
 
This created a requirement version change for the following HS codes.
 
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. (Linum usitatissimum)
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, chilled, frozen 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. 
 
B) Chapter 31 was published to:
 
i) modify the import conditions for the following HS codes originating from Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Chile, Iceland, New Zealand, United States and Uruguay.
 
31.01.00.4030.01 – Containing avian (bird) ingredients (e.g., feathermeal)
31.01.00.4030.02 – Containing bovine (cattle) ingredients (e.g., bone meal, meat-and-bone meal)
31.01.00.4030.03 – Containing equine (horse) ingredients (e.g., bone meal, meat-and-bone meal)
31.01.00.4030.04 – Containing ovine/caprine (sheep/goat) ingredients (e.g., bone meal, meat-and-bone meal)
31.01.00.4030.05 – Containing porcine (swine) ingredients (e.g., bone meal, meat-and-bone meal)
31.01.00.4030.06 – Containing cervid (deer) ingredients (e.g., bone meal, meat-and-bone meal)
31.01.00.4030.07 – Containing fish ingredients (e.g., fishmeal, fish oil)
31.01.00.4030.08 – Containing a mixture of avian, bovine, equine, ovine/caprine, porcine, cervid, and/or fish ingredients
31.01.00.4030.99 – Containing animal ingredients otherwise not specified
 
ii) remove a registration type and modify the import conditions for the following HS codes originating from all origins except the United States.
 
31.01.00.1810.01 – Avian (bird) - pure manure, processed and packaged
31.01.00.1810.02 – Bovine (cattle) - pure manure, processed and packaged
31.01.00.1810.03 – Equine (horse) - pure manure, processed and packaged
31.01.00.1810.04 – Ovine/caprine (sheep/goat) - pure manure, processed and packaged
31.01.00.1810.05 – Porcine (swine) - pure manure, processed and packaged
31.01.00.1810.99 – Other - pure manure, processed and packaged

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Other Government Departments (OGDs) Requirements
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Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA)
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