General Import Permit No. 80 — Carbon Steel (SOR/2012-17)

Interpretation

0.1 In this Permit, country of melt and pour means the country where the raw steel contained in a carbon steel product is first produced in a liquid state in a steel-making furnace and poured into its first solid state which can take the form of a semi-finished product that is a slab, billet or ingot or of a finished steel mill product.

General

1 Any resident of Canada may, under the authority of this Permit, import into Canada any goods described in item 80 of the Import Control List.

2 If any goods imported under the authority of this Permit are required to be accounted for under section 32 of the Customs Act, the resident of Canada must, at the time of accounting or interim accounting, whichever comes first, include the statement “GIP80” or “LGI80” in the prescribed form.

Terms and Conditions

3 A resident of Canada who imports goods under the authority of this Permit must

• (a) within 10 days after receipt of a request from the Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development, provide to the Department the documents and records referred to in section 4 in respect of any import made during the period specified in the request;

• (b) at all reasonable times

  • (i) make the documents and records referred to in section 4 available for inspection by any persons authorized by the Minister, and

  • (ii) provide to those persons all reasonable assistance to facilitate the inspection of those documents and records;

• (c) within the time period specified by the Department, provide to the Department any documents and records necessary for making a determination on the country of origin, the country of melt and pour, the import value or the quantity of the imported carbon steel products; and

• (d) at the time of importation, specify the country of melt and pour of the imported goods in the form and manner determined by the Canada Border Services Agency.

• 3.1 (1) Section 2 and paragraph 3(d) do not apply to a CSA importer in respect of goods released under paragraph 32(2)(b) of the Customs Act.

• (2) In subsection (1), CSA importer has the same meaning as in section 2 of the Accounting for Imported Goods and Payment of Duties Regulations.

3.2 Paragraph 3(d) does not apply if

• (a) the total value for duty of the imported goods does not exceed $5,000; or

• (b) the imported goods are

  • (i) cold-formed or cold-finished angles, shapes or sections,

  • (ii) welded angles, shapes or sections,

  • (iii) switch blades, crossing frogs, point rods or other crossing pieces for railway or tramway track construction,

  • (iv) structures, parts of structures or structural plates, rods, angles, shapes, sections, tubes or the like,

  • (v) stranded wire, ropes, cables or the like, not electrically insulated,

  • (vi) barbed wires or fencing wires, or

  • (vii) wire nails, tacks, pins, staples or the like.

Documents and Records

4 A resident of Canada who imports goods under this Permit must retain, for a period of six years after the year in which the import is made, documents and records containing the following information:

• (a) the name and address of the importer or consignee;

• (b) proof of Canadian residency;

• (c) the date of entry of the goods into Canada;

• (d) the quantity, expressed in kilograms, of the goods;

• (e) the country from which the goods are imported;

• (f) the country of origin of the goods;

• (g) the shipping document with freight and other transportation costs indicated separately;

• (h) the tariff classification of the goods indicated in the List of Tariff Provisions set out in the schedule to the Customs Tariff;

• (i) the import value in Canadian dollars;

• (j) a detailed description of the goods; and

• (k) the country of melt and pour.