Regulations Defining Certain Expressions for the Purposes of the Customs Tariff (SOR/97-62)

Expressions Defined

1 For the purposes of the Customs Tariff, the following expressions are defined.

imported from Israel or another CIFTA beneficiary

imported from Israel or another CIFTA beneficiary means, in respect of goods,

• (a) goods that are shipped to Canada from Israel or another CIFTA beneficiary without shipment through another country;

• (b) goods that are shipped to Canada from Israel or another CIFTA beneficiary through another country, other than through the territory of a non-Party, if

  • (i) the goods do not undergo further production or any other operation in the territory of that other country, other than unloading, splitting up of loads, reloading or any other operation necessary to preserve them in good condition or to ship them to Canada, and

  • (ii) the goods remain under customs control in that other country;

• (c) goods that are shipped to Canada from Israel or another CIFTA beneficiary through the territory of a non-Party, except for goods listed in any of Chapters 50 through 63 of the List of Tariff Provisions, if

  • (i) the goods do not undergo further production other than minor processing in the territory of that non-Party, or

  • (ii) any processing that occurs in the territory of that non-Party with respect to that good does not increase the transaction value of the goods by greater than 10%; or

• (d) goods listed in any of Chapters 50 through 63 of the List of Tariff Provisions that are shipped to Canada from Israel or another CIFTA beneficiary through the territory of a non-Party, if

  • (i) the goods do not undergo further production or any other operation in the territory of that non-Party, other than unloading, splitting up of loads, reloading or any other operation necessary to preserve them in good condition or to ship them to Canada, and

  • (ii) the goods remain under customs control while in the territory of that non-Party. (importé d’Israël ou d’un autre bénéficiaire de l’ALÉCI)

Israel or another CIFTA beneficiary

Israel or another CIFTA beneficiary means the territory where the customs laws of Israel are applied and includes the territory where those laws are applied in accordance with Article III of the Protocol on Economic Relations set out in Annex V of the Israeli-Palestinian Interim Agreement on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, dated September 28, 1995, as that Protocol is amended from time to time. (Israël ou autre bénéficiaire de l’ALÉCI)

1.1 For the purposes of section 1, non-Party has the same meaning as in section 1 of the CIFTA Tariff Preference Regulations.

Coming into Force

Footnote ^*2 These Regulations come into force on the day on which section 45 of the Canada-Israel Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act, chapter 33 of the Statutes of Canada, 1996, comes into force.

• Return to footnote ^*[Note: Regulations in force January 1, 1997, see SI/97-9.]