Finance committee  Sure. I think it was explained in the House that it should have been included initially, so that's in clause 78 now.

Finance committee  I am sorry, I did not hear the question.

Finance committee  Yes.

Finance committee  There would have to be some technical corrections, but, in general, we can see that these two tariff systems are much wider in scope and that they include a certain number of products like karaoke systems and other similar systems. So, the scope of the systems is much wider. Fo

Finance committee  Products with tariff number 9948.00.00 will get a tariff exemption. Nothing there has changed.

Finance committee  Under chapter 99 of the Customs Tariff, some general conditions apply for tariff exemptions in general. But nothing will change in this case, because products with tariff number 9948.00.00 are admitted tariff free.

Finance committee  Because the Canadian Border Services Agency administers the tariff, so they are in the best position to decide which products are included or not. In this case, we have been told that nothing has changed for products that were previously admitted with tariff number 9488.00.00. S

Finance committee  Maybe I would just add this, to follow up on the example of the European Union, since they made the pretty recent significant change to their own system, along the same items as in budget 2013. They went from 176 beneficiary countries to 80.

Finance committee  Canada is about $1.7 trillion, in terms of their economy; China is at $7.3 trillion; Brazil is at $2.5 trillion; and India is at $1.8 trillion.

Finance committee  We conducted consultations in late December. We used two criteria to determine the eligibility for the general preferential tariff. Countries had to either have an economy below high income or upper-middle income—according to the World Bank standards—or have less than a 1% share

Finance committee  Just to clarify, if you look at section 36 of the Customs Tariff—not the bill, but the Customs Tariff—it says that sections 32 to 35, which are with respect to the general preferential tariff, cease to have effect on June 30, 2014. As Mr. Beyea indicated, this bill would change t

Finance committee  I think data is available on Canada from Statistics Canada. We can provide that to the committee if you wish.

Finance committee  I'll try to answer as best I can. I'm not in a position to discuss how the budget is formulated internally, but I can talk to you about internal formulation as regards customs tariffs. With respect to tariff relief to assist corporate competitiveness, that is a longstanding poli

Finance committee  My name is Patrick Halley. I am chief of tariff policy at the Department of Finance.

International Trade committee  As we were explaining earlier, broader measures such as taxation initiatives that apply to a wide range of industries were announced. Tax breaks are being provided to help certain manufacturers modernize their operations. These relief measures target all types of machinery and eq