Special Import Measures Act

Marginal note:Determination final

• 56 (1) If, after the making of an order or finding of the Tribunal or an order of the Governor in Council imposing a countervailing duty under section 7, any goods are imported into Canada, a determination by a designated officer

  • (a) as to whether the imported goods are goods of the same description as goods to which the order or finding of the Tribunal or the order of the Governor in Council applies,

  • (b) of the normal value of or the amount, if any, of the subsidy on any imported goods that are of the same description as goods to which the order or finding of the Tribunal or the order of the Governor in Council applies, and

  • (c) of the export price of or the amount, if any, of the export subsidy on any imported goods that are of the same description as goods to which the order or finding of the Tribunal applies,

  made within thirty days after they were accounted for under subsection 32(1), (3) or (5) of the Customs Act is final and conclusive.

• Marginal note:Request for re-determination

  (1.01) Notwithstanding subsection (1),

  • (a) where a determination referred to in that subsection is made in respect of any goods, including goods of a CUSMA country, the importer of the goods may, within ninety days after the making of the determination, make a written request in the prescribed form and manner and accompanied by the prescribed information to a designated officer for a re-determination, if the importer has paid all duties owing on the goods; and

  • (b) where a determination referred to in that subsection is made in respect of goods of a CUSMA country, the government of that CUSMA country or, if they are of that CUSMA country, the producer, manufacturer or exporter of the goods may make a request as described in paragraph (a), whether or not the importer of the goods has paid all duties owing on the goods.

• Marginal note:Suspension of s. (1.1)

  (1.02) The operation of subsection (1.1) is suspended during the period in which subsection (1.01) is in force.

• Marginal note:Request for re-determination

  (1.1) Notwithstanding subsection (1),

  • (a) where a determination referred to in that subsection is made in respect of any goods, including goods of the United States, the importer of the goods may, within ninety days after the making of the determination, make a written request in the prescribed form and manner and accompanied by the prescribed information to a designated officer for a re-determination, if the importer has paid all duties owing on the goods; and

  • (b) where a determination referred to in that subsection is made in respect of goods of the United States, the United States government or the producer, manufacturer or exporter of the goods may make a request as described in paragraph (a), whether or not the importer of the goods has paid all duties owing on the goods.

• Marginal note:Determination deemed to have been made

  (2) Where, in the case of any imported goods referred to in subsection (1), a determination referred to in that subsection that is relevant in the case of those goods is not in fact made in respect of them within the thirty days referred to in that subsection, that determination shall be deemed to have been made

  • (a) on the thirtieth day after the goods were accounted for; and

  • (b) in accordance with any representations made by the person accounting for the goods at the time of the accounting.