USTR Establishes USMCA Sugar-Containing Product TRQ for Canada, Will Require Certificates
The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative is establishing a new tariff-rate quota for imports of sugar-containing products from Canada under the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement, it said in a notice. Effective July 1, the TRQ will allow imports at an in-quota…
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rate of up to 9,600 metric tons of sugar-containing products, as defined in Annex 2-B to USMCA. USTR will require export certificates issued by the Canadian government for goods entered under the TRQ. “No SCP that is the product of Canada will be permitted entry under the in-quota tariff rate established for imports of SCPs from Canada, unless at the time of entry the person entering the SCP makes a declaration to [CBP], in the form and manner prescribed by CBP, that a valid export certificate is in effect for the SCP,” USTR said in the notice. The certificate requirement will remain in effect going forward unless USTR issues a determination that export certificates will not be required in any given year.