CBSA Cuts Tariffs on Emergency Products
The Canada Border Services Agency will allow for duty-free treatment for goods imported in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, it said in a customs notice. The Goods for Emergency Use Remission Order “in conjunction with Tariff Item No. 9993.00.00 allows…
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for the relief of duty and tax for goods required for an emergency and are imported by or on behalf of federal, provincial or municipal entities involved such as centres for health care as well as by or on behalf of members of first response organizations such as police, fire and local civil defence groups, including medical response teams,” it said. Such goods “shall be exported from Canada whenever they are no longer required except goods that are consumed or destroyed during the emergency,” the CBSA said. “The requirement to export does not apply if the goods are permanently imported with applicable duties and taxes paid.” The goods may be subject to examination and verification, it said.