Reporting of Imported Goods Regulations (SOR/86-873)
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Regulations are current to 2013-04-29 and last amended on 2011-09-30. Previous Versions
EXCEPTIONS TO REPORTING AT THE NEAREST CUSTOMS OFFICE
6. Goods transported by an air transportation company that is authorized to transport the goods within Canada under the Transportation of Goods Regulations may be reported at the customs office for the airport of destination shown on the air waybill, on condition that the air transportation company
(a) keeps records on all imported goods that are transported by it into Canada sufficient to enable an officer to verify that the goods were reported and that all duties payable thereon were paid or, if the duties were not paid, to verify that the goods were destroyed, lost, received, exported or released as set out in paragraph 18(2)(a), (c), (d), (e) or (f) of the Act, as the case may be;
(b) keeps records on all goods that are reported by it but that are not imported sufficient to enable an officer to verify that the goods were lost or destroyed or did not leave the place outside Canada from which they were to have been exported as set out in paragraph 18(2)(a) or (b) of the Act, as the case may be; and
(c) where an officer so requests, makes the records referred to in paragraphs (a) and (b) available to the officer for inspection.
7. (1) Goods in the actual possession of a person arriving in Canada aboard a commercial passenger conveyance who has as his destination a place outside Canada, and any goods being carried on board the same conveyance and forming part of his baggage, do not have to be reported, on condition that
(a) the person does not disembark from the conveyance in Canada and the goods are not removed from the conveyance in Canada other than to be transferred under customs control directly to another commercial passenger conveyance for departure to a place outside Canada or directly to a designated holding area; and
(b) where the person and goods are transferred under customs control directly to a designated holding area, the person does not leave and the goods are not removed from that designated holding area other than to board or to be loaded on board a commercial passenger conveyance for departure to a place outside Canada.
(2) Goods in the actual possession of a person arriving in Canada aboard a commercial passenger conveyance who has as his destination another place in Canada at which there is a designated customs office, and any goods being carried on board the same conveyance and forming part of his baggage, may be reported at that designated customs office on condition that
(a) the person does not disembark from the conveyance at the place of arrival in Canada and the goods are not removed from the conveyance at the place of arrival in Canada other than to be transferred under customs control directly to another commercial passenger conveyance for departure to that other place in Canada or directly to a designated holding area; and
(b) where the person and goods are transferred under customs control directly to a designated holding area, the person does not leave and the goods are not removed from that designated holding area other than to board or to be loaded on board a commercial passenger conveyance for departure to that other place in Canada.
- SOR/2006-155, s. 4(F).
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