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CPTPP: Turkey TRQ – Serial No. 1036

Date: February 1, 2021

This Notice replaces Notice to Importers No. 981 dated February 1, 2020, and sets out the policies and practices pertaining to the administration of Canada’s tariff rate quota (TRQ) for turkey under the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP).

This Notice is provided pursuant to the authority of the  (EIPA) and its corresponding , and remains in effect until further notice.

Table of Contents

1. Definitions

Further processing means the manufacturing of products that are on the (ICL). Such products include, but are not limited to, patties, nuggets, fingers, rolls or roasts produced from turkey meat; it also means marinating, smoking or drying, coating or seasoning turkey meat.

Processing means the slaughtering of turkey, cutting up of eviscerated turkey, de-boning of eviscerated or cut up turkey, or further processing of turkey meat. 

Turkey means a product that is included in Items 105 to 113 on the , namely turkey falling under tariff items 01.05, 02.07, 02.09, 02.10, 16.01 and 16.02 in the list of tariff provisions set out in the Schedule to the .

2. Allocation policy

3. Eligibility criteria

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

Processor

  • that processed turkey in your own provincially-licensed or federally-registered facility in the reference period.
  • You must exclude the following from your application: 
    • products that were not processed in federally or provincially registered Canadian plants owned and operated by you;
    • products bought and sold for the export market;
    • non-ICL products;
    • products sold at the retail level to consumers;
    • intra-company transfers and transactions;
    • products sold to related persons; and
    • live turkey.

Distributor

  • that bought turkey and resold it to other businesses in the reference period.
    • Note: Companies that procure or sell turkey on behalf of others without taking ownership of or financial responsibility for the products are not eligible to apply for an allocation.
    • Note: Retailers are not eligible to apply for an allocation. A retailer is an establishment that is primarily engaged in retailing food, and which buys turkey and sells it directly to final consumers.
  • You must exclude the following from your application:
    • products bought and sold for the export market;
    • non-ICL products;
    • products sold to related persons;
    • products sold at the retail level to consumers;
    • products bought from or sold to other distributors; and
    • live turkey. 

4. Calculation of allocations

Processors

Distributors

5. Transfer, return, and under-utilization of allocations

6. Related links

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