Klarinet Archive - Posting 000198.txt from 2003/01

From: "Christianson-Wood, Jan (JUS)" <Jchristian@-----.ca>
Subj: RE: [kl] RE: Chinese Clarinets
Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2003 08:42:45 -0500

My family's experience with transporting both clarinets and industrial
electronic instruments across the Canada-US border suggests that both
countries want assurances that, as Steven Flekenstein writes, the
instruments will not be left or sold in the other country. Our daughter
attends university in the USA and routinely registers her instruments while
travelling back and forth. Regarding airline security--to date, security
officials on both sides of the border seem much more interested in our
laptop computers than in the clarinets.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve Fleckenstein [SMTP:spfleck@-----.net]
> Sent: 2003-Jan-09 6:34 AM
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: Re: [kl] RE: Chinese Clarinets
>
> Let me explain in detail.
>
> Four buses full of high school band kids from NY head to Toronto to play
> in
> a music festival for 3 days.
> Each of the four buses are full of fairly new instruments. The band
> members
> are told to fill out a sheet with each instruments make model and serial
> number to be presented to Canadian Customs before crossing the border. It
> is
> suggested that this is done because of a significant difference in prices
> for instruments in Canada vs the USA. Perhap the following info , from
> http://www.canlii.org/ca/regu/sor89-427/part90360%2Ehtml is part of the
> reason..
>
> So you smart guys tell me why this was necessary or was it just paranoia
> of
> the music department.
>
> The document below makes me suspect some sort of minimal proof was
> required
> to comply with the following requlation.
>
> -----------------------------------
>
> Temporary Importation (Excise Levies and Additional Duties) Regulations
>
> SOR/89-427
>
> CUSTOMS TARIFF
>
> Temporary Importation (Excise Levies and Additional Duties) Regulations
>
> REGULATIONS RESPECTING RELIEF FROM PAYMENT OF DUTIES ON CERTAIN GOODS
> IMPORTED TEMPORARILY INTO CANADA AND SUBSEQUENTLY EXPORTED
>
> Temporary Importation (Excise Levies and Additional Duties) Regulations
>
> INTERPRETATION
>
> 2. In these Regulations,
>
> "Act" means the Customs Tariff; (Loi)
>
> "carnet" means an A.T.A. (Admission Temporaire-Temporary Admission) carnet
> referred to in the Customs Convention on the A.T.A. Carnet for the
> Temporary
> Admission of Goods; (carnet)
>
> "duties" mean any duty imposed under section 21 of the Act or any duty or
> tax imposed under the Excise Act or the Excise Tax Act (other than tax
> imposed under Part IX of that Act); (droits)
>
> "former Act" has the meaning assigned by section 137 of the Act. (ancienne
> loi) SOR/98-28, s. 4.
>
>
>
>
>
> Temporary Importation (Excise Levies and Additional Duties) Regulations
>
> RELIEF FROM THE PAYMENT OF DUTIES
>
> 3. Subject to sections 4 to 6, relief shall be granted
>
> (a) from payment of all duties paid or payable on goods set out in Column
> I
> of an item of the schedule, used in Canada solely for the purposes and on
> the conditions set out in that item and identified as belonging to Class 1
> in Column II of that item; and
>
> (b) from payment of the portion of duties paid or payable on goods set out
> in Column I of an item of the schedule, used in Canada solely for the
> purposes and on the conditions set out in that item and identified as
> belonging to Class 2 in Column II of that item, equal to the amount of
> duties paid or payable on the goods minus the greater of
>
> (i) $25, and
>
> (ii) the amount of duties paid or payable on 1/60 of the value for duty of
> the goods multiplied by each month or part thereof that the goods remain
> in
> Canada.
>
>
>
>
>
> Temporary Importation (Excise Levies and Additional Duties)
> Regulations
> APPLICATION FOR RELIEF
> Temporary Importation (Excise Levies and Additional Duties) Regulations
> CONDITIONS
>
> 5. (1) Relief from the payment of duties provided pursuant to section 3
> shall be granted on condition that
>
> (a) the goods are used in Canada solely for the purpose and on the
> conditions set out in the schedule with respect to those goods;
>
> (b) where the goods are not goods referred to in any of paragraphs (c) to
> (g), they are exported by their importer within a year after the date the
> goods were released;
>
> (c) where the goods are set out in Column I of item 8 of the schedule,
> they
> are exported by their importer within a period not exceeding 24 months
> after
> the date the goods were released;
>
> (d) where the goods are set out in Column I of item 31 of the schedule,
> they
> are exported by their importer within a period not exceeding six months
> after the date the goods were released;
>
> (e) where the goods are set out in Column I of item 56 of the schedule,
> they
> are exported by their importer within a period not exceeding 30 days after
> the date the goods were released;
>
> (f) where the goods are covered by a carnet, the date of expiration of
> which
> is before the end of any period referred to in paragraphs (b) to (e), the
> goods are exported by their importer by the date of expiration of the
> carnet, unless security that is valid for the remainder of the period
> during
> which those goods are in Canada is provided in accordance with section 6
> to
> secure payment in full of duties that would otherwise be payable in
> respect
> of those goods; and
>
> (g) where the goods are covered by a carnet, the date of expiration of
> which
> is after any period referred to in paragraphs (b) to (e), the goods are
> exported by their importer within the period referred to in paragraphs (b)
> to (e).
>
>
> (2) For the purposes of subsection 106(4) of the Act, the Minister may
> extend the periods referred to in paragraphs (1)(b), (c), (f) and (g) in
> respect of the goods set out in the schedule. SOR/94-371, s. 1; SOR/98-28,
> s. 6.
>
> Temporary Importation (Excise Levies and Additional Duties) Regulations
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> 33.
> Musical instruments when imported by non-residents for their use in
> recording sessions or during live performances.
>
>
> 1
>
> 34.
> Equipment imported by non-residents for their use in recording
> performances
> by artists in Canada, when the recordings will be distributed
> internationally
>