{"id":3025,"date":"2014-12-10T13:49:15","date_gmt":"2014-12-10T18:49:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/clearit.ca\/?p=3025"},"modified":"2015-05-05T02:03:15","modified_gmt":"2015-05-05T06:03:15","slug":"general-preferential-tariff-revoked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clearit.ca\/canadian-customs-broker-blog\/general-preferential-tariff-revoked\/","title":{"rendered":"General Preferential Tariff to expire Jan. 1st, 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>72 trade-competitive countries will loose their eligibility for <a title=\"General preferential tariff \" href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsa-asfc.gc.ca\/publications\/cn-ad\/cn14-019-eng.html\" target=\"_blank\">General Preferential Tariff<\/a>, or GPT, come January 1st, 2015. Of these 72 countries, 20 of them have preferred tariff through other trade agreements. All goods originating from these 72 countries will be affected.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Countries loosing GPT status<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Algeria<\/li>\n<li>American Samoa<\/li>\n<li>Antigua &amp; Barbuda<\/li>\n<li>Antilles, Netherlands<\/li>\n<li>Argentina<\/li>\n<li>Azerbaijan<\/li>\n<li>Bahamas<\/li>\n<li>Bahrain<\/li>\n<li>Barbados<\/li>\n<li>Bermuda<\/li>\n<li>Bosnia &amp; Herzegovina<\/li>\n<li>Botswana<\/li>\n<li>Brazil<\/li>\n<li>Brunei<\/li>\n<li>Cayman Islands<\/li>\n<li>Chile<\/li>\n<li>China<\/li>\n<li>Colombia<\/li>\n<li>Costa Rica<\/li>\n<li>Croatia<\/li>\n<li>Cuba<\/li>\n<li>Dominica<\/li>\n<li>Dominican Republic<\/li>\n<li>Ecuador<\/li>\n<li>Equatorial Guinea<\/li>\n<li>French Polynesia<\/li>\n<li>Gabon<\/li>\n<li>Gibraltar<\/li>\n<li>Grenada<\/li>\n<li>Guam<\/li>\n<li>Hong Kong<\/li>\n<li>India<\/li>\n<li>Indonesia<\/li>\n<li>Iran<\/li>\n<li>Israel<\/li>\n<li>Jamaica<\/li>\n<li>Jordan<\/li>\n<li>Kazakhstan<\/li>\n<li>Kuwait<\/li>\n<li>Lebanon<\/li>\n<li>Macao<\/li>\n<li>Macedonia<\/li>\n<li>Malaysia<\/li>\n<li>Maldives<\/li>\n<li>Mariana Islands<\/li>\n<li>Mauritius<\/li>\n<li>Mexico<\/li>\n<li>Namibia<\/li>\n<li>New Caledonia &amp; Dependencies<\/li>\n<li>Oman<\/li>\n<li>Palau<\/li>\n<li>Panama<\/li>\n<li>Peru<\/li>\n<li>Qatar<\/li>\n<li>Russia<\/li>\n<li>Saint Kitts &amp; Nevis<\/li>\n<li>Saint Lucia<\/li>\n<li>Saint Vincent &amp; The Grenadines<\/li>\n<li>Seychelles<\/li>\n<li>Singapore<\/li>\n<li>South Africa<\/li>\n<li>South Korea<\/li>\n<li>Suriname<\/li>\n<li>Thailand<\/li>\n<li>Trinidad &amp; Tobago<\/li>\n<li>Tunisia<\/li>\n<li>Turkey<\/li>\n<li>Turks &amp; Caicos Islands<\/li>\n<li>United Arab Emirates<\/li>\n<li>Uruguay<\/li>\n<li>Venezuela<\/li>\n<li>Virgin Islands, USA<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you currently import goods from any of the above mentioned countries, the withdrawal of GPT status may increase the amount of duties payable upon import to Canada. Clearit.ca highly recommends taking advantage of these last few weeks with GPT in effect to leverage any savings under the current regulations.\u00a0Any goods that were in transit prior to January 1st, will not be affected, but must be accounted for on the <a title=\"B3-3 accounting form \" href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsa-asfc.gc.ca\/publications\/forms-formulaires\/b3-3.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">b3-3<\/a> in the following manner:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"list-bullet-none\">\n<li><i>(a)<\/i> in field No. 14, \u201cTariff Treatment\u201d, enter the Most-Favoured-Nation (MFN) tariff treatment \u201c02\u201d;<\/li>\n<li><i>(b)<\/i> in field No. 26, \u201cSpecial Authority\u201d, enter P.C. 13-0967;<\/li>\n<li><i>(c)<\/i> in field No. 33, \u201cRate of Customs Duty\u201d, enter the MFN rate of duty; and<\/li>\n<li><i>(d)<\/i> in field No. 38 \u201cCustoms Duties\u201d, enter the duty owing, calculated based on the GPT rate in effect prior to January 1, 2015.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/clearit.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2014\/12\/flags-of-the-world.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-3034\" src=\"http:\/\/clearit.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2014\/12\/flags-of-the-world-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"flags GPT\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/clearit.ca\/canadian-customs-broker-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/flags-of-the-world-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/clearit.ca\/canadian-customs-broker-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/flags-of-the-world-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/clearit.ca\/canadian-customs-broker-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/flags-of-the-world-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/clearit.ca\/canadian-customs-broker-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/flags-of-the-world-50x50.jpg 50w, https:\/\/clearit.ca\/canadian-customs-broker-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/flags-of-the-world.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For more information on the Withdrawal of GPT, please contact one of our Live Customs Specialists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>72 trade-competitive countries will loose their eligibility for General Preferential Tariff, or GPT, come January 1st, 2015. Of these 72 countries, 20 of them have preferred tariff through other trade agreements. All goods originating from these 72 countries will be affected. &nbsp; Countries loosing GPT status Algeria American Samoa Antigua &amp; Barbuda Antilles, Netherlands Argentina [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":3032,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[142,246,1,236],"tags":[70,360,359,367],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clearit.ca\/canadian-customs-broker-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3025"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clearit.ca\/canadian-customs-broker-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clearit.ca\/canadian-customs-broker-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clearit.ca\/canadian-customs-broker-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clearit.ca\/canadian-customs-broker-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3025"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/clearit.ca\/canadian-customs-broker-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3391,"href":"https:\/\/clearit.ca\/canadian-customs-broker-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3025\/revisions\/3391"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clearit.ca\/canadian-customs-broker-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clearit.ca\/canadian-customs-broker-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clearit.ca\/canadian-customs-broker-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clearit.ca\/canadian-customs-broker-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}