Finance committee  With respect to the measures that have been in place since March 2 of last year that apply a 35% tariff, those are only for the imports of a certain form of nitrogen fertilizer coming in from Russia. Those would be maintained. The legislative amendment would make that 35% permane

Finance committee  It's just to reflect the enduring nature of the conflict and also to ensure that, given that the tariff and those parts of the tariff would be...it's by deference to the legislative branch to be able to ensure that Parliament approves a permanent withdrawal of the MFN, most favou

Finance committee  Yes. This is to virtually all goods. Not all imports are subject to 35%. By legislation, there are a few exemptions under the general tariff, which is the default tariff that applies when you withdraw the most favoured nation tariff treatment. So there are some exceptions. For

Finance committee  That is correct. It is to incite importers to diversify and source away from these countries.

Finance committee  Good morning. My name is Yannick Mondy. I'm the director for tariff and trade policy of the Department of Finance. I'll be taking this question. Thank you for it. I will answer with respect to the end part of the question as to when the current OIC is set to expire. It is set u

Agriculture committee  I'll respond with respect to the monitoring. We receive data right now on a monthly basis and we disseminate aggregates and by tariff line to our colleagues at Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada and Global Affairs, as well amongst other federal partners. It was always noted from th

Agriculture committee  In the order, the definition of eligibility is based on the last segment of production, which must take place in Ukraine. That is what is called the origin rule. Processing that is referred to as minimal, such as repackaging or dilution with water, is excluded by definition. The

Agriculture committee  When we adopted this measure in June, we worked with the departments that have expertise, particularly Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, to immediately establish the tariff lines we should be closely monitoring. So with the data that is collected by the Canada Border Services Age

Agriculture committee  If I may, I would like to try to flesh out the answer. As my colleague said, the purpose of the remission order is to benefit Ukraine and so we base our decisions not on who owns goods, which may be a foreign investor in Ukraine, but on the added value of production that then ha

Agriculture committee  We did not do calculations relating specifically to supply-managed goods, given that those products were not imported from Ukraine in recent years. Our assessment is based on average imports in recent years; it was published in the regulatory impact statement. The annual tariffs

Finance committee  Essentially, they're of the same nature, they either make changes to interest owed or penalties owed to ensure that there's a single harmonized billing system. This is consistent throughout 214 to 218, to do changes on various forms of monies that are owed to the Crown based on d

Finance committee  I would like to invite for this one Marie-Hélène Cantin, who should be in the waiting room, for this particular division. This clause establishes that there's an amendment to section 16 of the Canada–United States–Mexico Agreement Implementation Act to require the concurrence of

Finance committee  Clause 211 amends section 33.4 of the Customs Act, which currently imposes an obligation to pay interest on duties owing on imported goods from the day after liability to pay occurs. The intent of the change is to establish in regulation the point when the interest will start acc

Finance committee  Clause 212 adds a clarification to section 35 of the Customs Act that imposes an obligation on a person to comply with the terms and conditions of the deposit, bond or other security that the person has given. The terms and conditions for bonds and other securities are establishe

Finance committee  This amendment proposes to amend the existing section 45 of the Customs Act to introduce a definition of “sold for export to Canada”, which currently appears in Customs Act regulations. To answer your question as to the rationale for this, in certain circumstances, purchasers ma