Vol. 147, No. 26 — December 18, 2013

Registration

SOR/2013-229 December 6, 2013

CUSTOMS TARIFF

Order Amending the Schedule to the Customs Tariff (Extension of General Preferential Tariff to South Sudan)

P.C. 2013-1331 December 5, 2013

Whereas South Sudan is a country that is beneficiary of the Most-Favoured-Nation Tariff under the Customs Tariff (see footnote a);

And whereas the Governor in Council is of the opinion that South Sudan is a developing country;

Therefore, to extend entitlement to the General Preferential Tariff to all eligible goods that originate in South Sudan, His Excellency the Governor General in Council, on the recommendation of the Minister of Finance, pursuant to paragraph 34(1)(a) (see footnote b) of the Customs Tariff (see footnote c), makes the annexed Order Amending the Schedule to the Customs Tariff (Extension of General Preferential Tariff to South Sudan).

ORDER AMENDING THE SCHEDULE TO THE CUSTOMS TARIFF (EXTENSION OF GENERAL PREFERENTIAL TARIFF TO SOUTH SUDAN)

AMENDMENT

1. The List of Countries and Applicable Tariff Treatments set out in the schedule to the Customs Tariff (see footnote 1) is amended by adding, in the column “GPT”, the symbol “X” opposite the reference to “South Sudan” in the column “Country Name”.

COMING INTO FORCE

2. This Order comes into force on the day on which it is registered.

N.B. The Regulatory Impact Analysis Statement for these Regulations appears following SOR/2013-228, Order Amending the Schedule to the Customs Tariff (Extension of Most-Favoured-Nation Tariff to South Sudan).