Reporting of Imported Goods Regulations

14 (1) The carrier shall give the Agency the information set out in Part 1 of Schedule 1

• (a) at least 96 hours before the vessel is scheduled to arrive at its port of arrival if there is a cargo container on board the vessel; and

• (b) at least 24 hours before the vessel is scheduled to arrive at its port of arrival in any other case.

(2) Despite subsection (1), if the vessel will arrive in Canada directly from the United States or Puerto Rico and all of the shipments for which the carrier is responsible were loaded onto it in the United States or Puerto Rico, the carrier shall give the information

• (a) at least four hours before the vessel is scheduled to arrive at its port of arrival if all of those shipments consist of empty cargo containers that are not for sale; and

• (b) at least 24 hours before the vessel is scheduled to arrive at its port of arrival in any other case.

(3) Despite subsections (1) and (2), the carrier shall give the information before or at the time the vessel leaves the last foreign port before its arrival in Canada if the duration of the voyage from that foreign port to the vessel’s port of arrival is less than the period within which the information would otherwise be given.