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CUSMA: Butter and Cream Powder TRQ - Serial No. 1018

Date: June 15, 2020

This Notice to Importers sets out the policies and practices pertaining to the administration of Canada’s tariff rate quota (TRQ) for butter and cream powder under the Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement (CUSMA).

This Notice to Importers is provided pursuant to the authority of the Export and Import Permits Act (EIPA) and its corresponding regulations, and remains in effect until further notice.

Table of contents

1. Definitions

Butter means a product that is included in Items 159 to 160 of the Import Control List (ICL), namely butter falling under tariff item Nos. 0405.10.10, 0405.20.10, 0405.90.10, and Cream Powder means a product that is included in Items 119 and 120 of the ICL, namely cream powder falling under tariff item Nos. 0402.21.21 and 0402.29.21 in the list of tariff provisions set out in the Schedule to the Customs Tariff.

See the List of EIPA commodity codes for butter and cream powder.

2. Allocation policy

YearPercentage of processors’ allocations reserved for importation of goods in bulk to be used as ingredients for further food processing
2021-202294%
2022-202388%
2023-202475%
2024-202562.5%

3. Eligibility criteria

You are eligible to apply for an allocation if you are a:

Processor

Further processor

Distributor

4. Calculation of allocations

Processors:

Further processors:

Distributors:

5. Transfer, returns and under-utilization of allocations

6. Related links

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