CPTPP Rules of Origin for Casual Goods Regulations: SOR/2018-222

Canada Gazette, Part II, Volume 152, Number 23

Registration

SOR/2018-222 October 30, 2018

CUSTOMS TARIFF

P.C. 2018-1324 October 29, 2018

Her Excellency the Governor General in Council, on the recommendation of the Minister of Finance, pursuant to subsection 16(2) footnote a of the Customs Tariff footnote b, makes the annexed CPTPP Rules of Origin for Casual Goods Regulations.

CPTPP Rules of Origin for Casual Goods Regulations

Interpretation

1 In these Regulations, casual goods means goods other than goods imported for sale or for an industrial, occupational, commercial or institutional or other like use.

Casual Goods

2 Subject to section 4, casual goods that are acquired in a CPTPP country are considered to originate in that country and are entitled to the benefit of the CPTPP tariff applicable to that country if

3 Subject to section 4, casual goods that are acquired in a CPTPP country — the marking of which is in accordance with the marking laws of that country and indicates that the goods are the product of a CPTPP country other than that country or Canada — are considered to originate in the CPTPP country indicated by that marking and are entitled to the benefit of the CPTPP tariff applicable to that CPTPP country.

4 The CPTPP tariffs referred to in sections 2 and 3 are the CPTPP tariffs applicable to a CPTPP country set opposite the reference to that country in the column “Tariff Treatment / Other” in the List of Countries set out in the schedule to the Customs Tariff.

Coming into Force

5 These Regulations come into force on the day on which section 43 of the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership Implementation Act, chapter 23 of the Statutes of Canada 2018, comes into force, but if they are registered after that day, they come into force on the day on which they are registered.

N.B. The Regulatory Impact Analysis Statement for these Regulations appears following SOR/2018-221, CPTPP Rules of Origin Regulations.