Order Amending the General Import Permit No. 81 — Specialty Steel Products: SOR/2024-215

Canada Gazette, Part II, Volume 158, Number 24

Registration
SOR/2024-215 November 1, 2024

EXPORT AND IMPORT PERMITS ACT

The Minister of Foreign Affairs makes the annexed Order Amending the General Import Permit No. 81 — Specialty Steel Products under subsections 8(1.1)^{footnote a} and 10(1)^{footnote b} of the Export and Import Permits Act ^{footnote c}.

Ottawa, November 1, 2024

Mélanie Joly
Minister of Foreign Affairs

Order Amending the General Import Permit No. 81 — Specialty Steel Products

Amendments

1 The General Import Permit No. 81 — Specialty Steel Products ^{footnote 1} is amended by adding the following before section 1:

Interpretation

0.1 In this Permit, country of melt and pour means the country where the raw steel contained in a specialty steel product is first produced in a liquid state in a steel-making furnace and poured into its first solid state which can take the form of a semi-finished product that is a slab, billet or ingot or of a finished steel mill product.

2 Section 2 of the Permit is replaced by the following:

2 If any goods imported under the authority of this Permit are required to be accounted for under section 32 of the Customs Act, the resident of Canada must, at the time of accounting or interim accounting, whichever comes first, include the statement “GIP81” or “LGI81” in the prescribed form.

3 Section 3 of the Permit is amended by striking out “and” at the end of paragraph (b) and by replacing paragraph (c) with the following:

• (c) within the time period specified by the Department, provide to the Department any documents and records necessary for making a determination on the country of origin, the country of melt and pour, the import value or the quantity of the imported specialty steel products; and
• (d) at the time of importation, specify the country of melt and pour of the imported goods in the form and manner determined by the Canada Border Services Agency.

4 The Permit is amended by adding the following after section 3:

3.1 (1) Section 2 and paragraph 3(d) do not apply to a CSA importer in respect of goods released under paragraph 32(2)(b) of the Customs Act.

(2) In subsection (1), CSA importer has the same meaning as in section 2 of the Accounting for Imported Goods and Payment of Duties Regulations.

3.2 Paragraph 3(d) does not apply if

• (a) the total value for duty of the imported goods does not exceed $5,000; or
• (b) the imported goods are
  • (i) stranded wire, ropes, cables or the like, not electrically insulated,
  • (ii) barbed wires or fencing wires, or
  • (iii) wire nails, tacks, pins, staples or the like.

5 Section 4 of the Permit is amended by striking out “and” at the end of paragraph (i), by adding “and” at the end of paragraph (j) and by adding the following after paragraph (j):

• (k) the country of melt and pour.

Coming into Force

6 This Order comes into force on November 5, 2024, but if it is registered after that day, it comes into force on the day on which it is registered.

N.B. The Regulatory Impact Analysis Statement for this Order appears following SOR/2024-214, Order Amending the General Import Permit No. 80 — Carbon Steel.