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Chapter 98: Special Classification Provisions

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Tariff NumberDescriptionMFN RateCUSMA Rate
9801.10.10Conveyances or containers of Chapters 86, 87, 88 or 89, engaged in the international commercial transportation of goods or passengers, including any ancillary equipment necessary to ensure the safety, security, containment and preservation of the goods or passengers. - Conveyances and containers. - Conveyances, not including trailers and semi-trailers of subheading 8716.31 or 8716.39, (a) on condition that: (i) in the case of vehicles, they are registered and licensed in a foreign country and operated in Canada with a vehicle licence issued by the appropriate provincial licensing authority; (ii) in the case of aircraft, they comply with the requirements of the Aeronautics Act and any regulations made thereunder; and (iii) in the case of vessels, they comply with the requirements of the Canada Shipping Act and Coasting Trade Act; and (b) on condition that the conveyances: (i) are owned or leased and imported by a person whose domicile is in a foreign country; (ii) leave from and return to the foreign country in the normal course of operation; (iii) are controlled from the foreign country; and (iv) are exported within 30 days of the date of their importation or for an additional period not exceeding 24 months where a customs officer is satisfied that the exportation of the conveyances is delayed because: (A) of adverse weather conditions; (B) the conveyances are being equipped, reconditioned, reconstructed, refurbished or repaired; (C) the conveyances have a major equipment breakdown; (D) the conveyances are detained under an order of a Canadian court, or under an Act of Parliament or the legislature of a province or any regulation made thereunder; or (E) the delivery of the goods to be loaded on or in the conveyances is delayed. The conveyances provided for in this tariff item may engage in the transportation of goods from one point in Canada to another point in Canada where: (a) that transportation is incidental to the international traffic of the goods; (b) the transportation does not occur outside the territorial limits of Canada; and (c) the conveyance has not entered Canada for the purpose of an in-transit movement through Canada to a point outside Canada.
9801.10.20Conveyances or containers of Chapters 86, 87, 88 or 89, engaged in the international commercial transportation of goods or passengers, including any ancillary equipment necessary to ensure the safety, security, containment and preservation of the goods or passengers. - Conveyances and containers. - Containers, on condition that: (a) the ancillary equipment for the containers does not include vehicles, accessories, spare parts of vehicles or packaging, and (b) the containers: (i) are fully or partially enclosed to constitute a compartment intended for containing goods; (ii) are of a permanent character and suitable for repeated use; (iii) are designed to carry goods by one or more modes of transport without requiring intermediate reloading; and (iv) have an internal volume of a least 1 m³; (v) leave from and return to a foreign country in the normal course of operation; and (vi) are exported within 365 days of the date of their importation or for an additional period not exceeding 24 months where a customs officer is satisfied that the exportation of the containers is delayed because: (A) of adverse weather conditions; (B) the containers are being equipped, reconditioned, reconstructed, refurbished or repaired; (C) the containers have a major equipment breakdown; (D) the containers are detained under an order of a Canadian court, or under an Act of Parliament or the legislature of a province or any regulation made thereunder; or (E) the delivery of the goods to be loaded in the containers is delayed. The containers provided for in this tariff item may engage in the transportation of goods from one point in Canada to another point in Canada where: (a) the transportation does not occur outside the territorial limits of Canada; and (b) the container has not entered Canada for the purpose of an in-transit movement through Canada to a point outside of Canada.Free
9801.10.30Conveyances or containers of Chapters 86, 87, 88 or 89, engaged in the international commercial transportation of goods or passengers, including any ancillary equipment necessary to ensure the safety, security, containment and preservation of the goods or passengers. - Conveyances and containers. - Trailers and semi-trailers of subheading 8716.31 or 8716.39, on condition that they: (a) are registered and licensed in a foreign country and operated in Canada with a vehicle licence issued by the appropriate provincial licensing authority; (b) leave from and return to the foreign country in the normal course of operation; (c) are exported within 30 days of the date of their importation or for an additional period not exceeding 24 months where a customs officer is satisfied that the exportation of the trailers or semi-trailers is delayed because: (i) of adverse weather conditions; (ii) the trailers or semi-trailers are being equipped, reconditioned, reconstructed, refurbished or repaired; (iii) the trailers or semi-trailers have a major equipment breakdown; (iv) the trailers or semi-trailers are detained under an order of a Canadian court, or under an Act of Parliament or the legislature of a province or any regulation made thereunder; or (v) the delivery of the goods to be loaded on or in the trailer or semi-trailer is delayed. The trailers and semi-trailers provided for in this tariff item may engage in the transportation of goods from one point in Canada to another point in Canada where: (a) that transportation is incidental to the international traffic of the goods; (b) the transportation does not occur outside the territorial limits of Canada; and (c) the trailer or semi-trailer has not entered Canada for the purpose of an in-transit movement through Canada to a point outside of Canada.Free
9801.20.00Conveyances or containers of Chapters 86, 87, 88 or 89, engaged in the international commercial transportation of goods or passengers, including any ancillary equipment necessary to ensure the safety, security, containment and preservation of the goods or passengers. - Locomotives or railway rolling stock or miscellaneous railway equipment, regardless of tariff treatment entitlement or country of origin, owned or under the control of a railway company in the United States, temporarily engaged in the transportation of goods or passengers from a place in Canada to another place in Canada or imported on a temporary basis for the repair, testing or maintenance of railways in Canada.
9801.30.00Conveyances or containers of Chapters 86, 87, 88 or 89, engaged in the international commercial transportation of goods or passengers, including any ancillary equipment necessary to ensure the safety, security, containment and preservation of the goods or passengers. - Vessels engaged in international commercial transportation having a Canadian base of operation, other than those having both the departure and destination points situated on the St. Lawrence River or the Great Lakes.Free
9802.00.00Conveyances temporarily imported by a resident of Canada to be employed in the international non-commercial transportation of that person and accompanying persons using the same conveyance.
9803.00.00Conveyances and baggage temporarily imported by a person who is not a resident of Canada for use by that person in Canada.Free
9804.10.00Goods acquired abroad by a resident or temporary resident of Canada or by a former resident who is returning to Canada to resume residence, for the personal or household use of that person or as souvenirs or gifts, but not bought on commission or as an accommodation for any other person or for sale, and reported by that person at time of return to Canada. - Valued at not more than eight hundred dollars and included in the baggage accompanying the person returning from abroad after an absence from Canada of not less than forty-eight hours. For the purpose of this tariff item, goods may include either wine not exceeding 1.5 litres or any alcoholic beverages not exceeding 1.14 litres, tobacco not exceeding fifty cigars, two hundred cigarettes, two hundred tobacco sticks and two hundred grams of manufactured tobacco, and vaping products not exceeding 120 millilitres of vaping substance in liquid form, or 120 grams of vaping substance in solid form, within any combination of not more than twelve vaping devices and immediate containers.Free
9804.20.00Goods acquired abroad by a resident or temporary resident of Canada or by a former resident who is returning to Canada to resume residence, for the personal or household use of that person or as souvenirs or gifts, but not bought on commission or as an accommodation for any other person or for sale, and reported by that person at time of return to Canada. - Valued at not more than eight hundred dollars, whether or not included in the baggage accompanying the person returning from abroad after an absence from Canada of not less than seven days. For the purpose of this tariff item: (a) goods may include either wine not exceeding 1.5 litres or any alcoholic beverages not exceeding 1.14 litres, tobacco not exceeding fifty cigars, two hundred cigarettes, two hundred tobacco sticks and two hundred grams of manufactured tobacco, and vaping products not exceeding 120 millilitres of vaping substance in liquid form, or 120 grams of vaping substance in solid form, within any combination of not more than twelve vaping devices and immediate containers, if included in the baggage accompanying the person at the time of return to Canada; and (b) if goods (other than alcoholic beverages, cigars, cigarettes, tobacco sticks, manufactured tobacco and vaping products) acquired abroad are not included in the baggage accompanying the person, they may be classified under this tariff item if they are reported by the person at time of return to Canada.Free
9804.30.00Goods acquired abroad by a resident or temporary resident of Canada or by a former resident who is returning to Canada to resume residence, for the personal or household use of that person or as souvenirs or gifts, but not bought on commission or as an accommodation for any other person or for sale, and reported by that person at time of return to Canada. - Valued at not more than three hundred dollars and included in the baggage accompanying the person returning from abroad after an absence from Canada of not less than forty-eight hours. For the purpose of this tariff item, goods shall not include those which could otherwise be imported into Canada free of duties, nor alcoholic beverages, cigars, cigarettes, tobacco sticks, manufactured tobacco or vaping products.7%
9804.40.00Goods acquired abroad by a resident or temporary resident of Canada or by a former resident who is returning to Canada to resume residence, for the personal or household use of that person or as souvenirs or gifts, but not bought on commission or as an accommodation for any other person or for sale, and reported by that person at time of return to Canada. - Valued at not more than two hundred dollars and included in the baggage accompanying the person returning from abroad after an absence from Canada of not less than twenty-four hours. For the purpose of this tariff item, goods shall not include alcoholic beverages, cigars, cigarettes, tobacco sticks, manufactured tobacco or vaping products.
9805.00.00Goods imported by a member of the Canadian Forces, by an employee of the Canadian government, or by a former resident of Canada returning to Canada to resume residence in Canada after having been a resident of another country for a period of not less than one year, or by a resident returning after an absence from Canada of not less than one year, and acquired by that person for personal or household use and actually owned, possessed and used abroad by that person for at least six months prior to that person's return to Canada and accompanying that person at the time of their return to Canada. "Goods" does not include goods that are sold or otherwise disposed of within twelve months after importation. For the purpose of this tariff item: (a) the provisions shall apply to either wine not exceeding 1.5 litres or any alcoholic beverages not exceeding 1.14 litres, and tobacco not exceeding fifty cigars, two hundred cigarettes, two hundred tobacco sticks and two hundred grams of manufactured tobacco if they are included in the baggage accompanying the importer, and no relief from payment of duties is being claimed in respect of alcoholic beverages or tobacco under another item in this Chapter at the time of importation; (b) if goods (other than alcoholic beverages, cigars, cigarettes, tobacco sticks and manufactured tobacco) are not accompanying the person returning from abroad, they may be classified under this item when imported at a later time if they are reported by the person at the time of return to Canada; and (c) any article which was acquired after March 31, 1977 by a class of persons named in this tariff item and which has a value for duty as determined under the Customs Act of more than $10,000 shall not be classified under this tariff item. - Goods imported by returning members of the Canadian ForcesFree
9806.00.00Personal and household effects of a resident of Canada who has died, on the condition that such goods were owned, possessed and used abroad by that resident; Personal and household effects received by a resident of Canada as a result of the death or in anticipation of death of a person who is not a resident of Canada, on condition that such goods were owned, possessed and used abroad by that non-resident; All the foregoing when bequeathed to a resident of Canada.Free
9807.00.00Goods imported by a settler for the settler's household or personal use, if actually owned, possessed and used abroad by the settler prior to the settler's arrival in Canada and accompanying the settler at the time of the settler's arrival in Canada. For the purpose of this tariff item: (a) "goods" may include: (i) either wine not exceeding 1.5 litres or any alcoholic beverages not exceeding 1.14 litres, (ii) tobacco not exceeding fifty cigars, two hundred cigarettes, two hundred toabacco sticks and two hundred grams of manufactured tobacco, and (iii) vaping products not exceeding 120 millilitres of vaping substance in liquid form, or 120 grams of vaping substance in solid form, within any combination of not more than twelve vaping devices and immediate containers; (b) "goods" does not include imported goods that are sold or otherwise disposed of within twelve months after importation; and (c) if goods (other than alcoholic beverages, cigars, cigarettes, tobacco sticks, manufactured tobacco and vaping products) are not accompanying the settler at the time of the settler's arrival in Canada, they may be classified under this tariff item when imported at a later time if they are reported by the settler at the time of the settler's arrival in Canada.
9808.00.00Articles for the personal or official use of representatives of foreign countries and of Her Majesty's Governments, and for the personal use of their families, suites or servants.Free
9810.00.00Arms, military stores, munitions of war and other goods the property of and to remain the property of a foreign country designated by the Governor in Council; Goods consigned to military service agencies and institutions designated by the Governor in Council where the goods are for the personal use of or consumption by nationals of countries designated under this item who are employed in defence establishments of those countries in Canada.
9811.00.00Arms, military stores and munitions of war imported by the Government of Canada in replacement of or in anticipation or actual exchange for similar goods loaned to or exchanged or to be exchanged with the governments of a foreign country designated by the Governor in Council under tariff item No. 9810.00.00.Free
9812.00.00Publications of the United Nations or the North Atlantic Treaty Organization or any of their specialized agencies.
9813.00.00Goods, including containers or coverings filled or empty, originating in Canada, after having been exported therefrom, if the goods are returned without having been advanced in value or improved in condition by any process of manufacture or other means, or combined with any other article abroad. For the purpose of this tariff item: (a) goods on which a refund of customs duty or drawback of customs duty has been made shall not be classified under this tariff item except upon payment of the customs duty equal to the refund or drawback allowed; and (b) goods manufactured in bond or under excise regulations in Canada and exported shall not be classified under this tariff item except upon payment of the customs duty to which they would have been liable had they not been exported from Canada. - In shuttle service
9814.00.00Goods, including containers or coverings filled or empty, which have once been released and accounted for under section 32 of the Customs Act and have been exported, if the goods are returned without having been advanced in value or improved in condition by any process of manufacture or other means, or combined with any other article abroad. For the purpose of this tariff item: (a) goods on which a refund of customs duty or drawback of customs duty has been made shall not be classified under this tariff item except upon payment of the customs duty equal to the refund or drawback allowed; and (b) goods manufactured in bond or under excise regulations in Canada and exported shall not be classified under this tariff item except upon payment of the customs duty to which they would have been liable had they not been exported from Canada. - In shuttle service
9815.00.00Donations of clothing and books for charitable purposes; Donations of any goods by non-residents of Canada to religious, charitable or educational institutions in Canada; Photographs, not exceeding three, sent by friends and not for the purpose of sale.
9816.00.00Casual donations sent by persons abroad to friends in Canada, or imported personally by persons who are not residents of Canada as gifts to friends, and not being advertising matter, tobacco or alcoholic beverages, when the value thereof does not exceed sixty dollars in any one case.Free
9817.00.00Medals, trophies and other articles (not including usual merchantable products nor medals, trophies or prizes which are regularly presented by organizations or business companies to their members, employees or representatives), which have been bestowed or awarded by persons or organizations abroad as marks of honour or distinction, or which have been won abroad in competitions, or having been won abroad in competitions are donated by persons or organizations abroad for bestowal or award in Canada.
9818.00.00Articles imported by or for public museums, public libraries, universities, colleges or schools, to be placed in such institutions as exhibits, accompanied by a certificate, in duplicate, in the prescribed form with the information to be provided with the form, and signed by a responsible official of the institution in which the articles are to be exhibited. - Purchased
9825.10.00Goods imported by mail or courier for personal or household use. The following goods are not eligible for classification under this heading: goods or classes of goods that, on importation, may be released only in accordance with the accounting provisions of the Customs Act or the applicable regulations on condition that the importer or owner of the goods provides, before the release of the goods, any certificate, licence, permit or other document and any information that is required under any Act of Parliament or any regulation made under such an Act that prohibits, controls or regulates the importation of goods, but this exclusion from eligibility for classification does not apply to any goods imported under the authority of and in accordance with a general import permit issued under subsection 8(1.1) or section 8.3 of the Export and Import Permits Act. The value of goods imported that are eligible to be classified under this heading shall not exceed $500. The following goods are not eligible for classification under tariff item No. 9825.10.00, 9825.20.00 or 9825.30.00: alcoholic beverages; tobacco; tobacco products; vaping products; goods subject to any additional customs duty under sections 21.1 to 22 of this Act; goods subject to any tax imposed under subsection 23(1) of the Excise Tax Act; goods in respect of which tax is not payable under Division III of Part IX of that Act; and goods in respect of which tax is payable under section 212.1 of that Act if an amount must be deducted from that tax under section 214.1 of that Act. - Goods which, if classified in accordance with the provisions of Chapters 1 to 97, would be subject to a rate of customs duty under the Most-Favoured-Nation Tariff that is not more than 5 percentage points greater or less than the rate provided by this tariff item under the Most-Favoured-Nation Tariff.

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