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CPTPP: Turkey and Turkey Products TRQ – Serial No. 981

Date: February 1, 2020

This Notice replaces Notice to Importers No. 935 dated February 1, 2019 and sets out the policies and practices pertaining to the administration of Canada’s tariff rate quota (TRQ) for turkey and turkey products 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

2. Allocation policy

3. Eligibility criteria

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

Processor

  • that carried on turkey and turkey products processing activities in federally or provincially registered Canadian plants owned and operated by you during 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;
    • products sold to related persons; and
    • live turkey.

Distributor

  • that bought (i.e., took ownership of and financial responsibility for) turkey and turkey products and resold it during the reference period, using warehouses and trucks in carrying out this activity.
    • Note: Companies that procure or sell turkey and turkey products on behalf of others without taking ownership of or financial responsibility for the products are not eligible to apply for an allocation.
    • Note: Retailers do not qualify as distributors and are not eligible for an allocation. A retailer is an establishment that is primarily engaged in retailing food, and which buys turkey and turkey products 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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