(International Trade Canada - Export & Import Controls) This is to inform importers and other interested parties that elimination of quantitative restraints on textiles and apparel at the end of 2004 will be implemented on
the basis of the date of shipment of the goods in question from the country of origin.
Under the World Trade Organization (WTO) Agreement on Textiles and Clothing (ATC), quantitative restraints on imports of
textiles and apparel established under bilateral restraint arrangements with certain WTO members are to eliminated by January 1, 2005.
Under these bilateral restraint arrangements, the quantitative restraints
are administered on the basis of the date of shipment of the goods from the country of origin.
Therefore, any textile and clothing whose export to Canada is subject to quantitative restrictions from a WTO member
and which is shipped for export to Canada during 2004 will continue to require an export licence and subsequent import permit for their import into Canada, regardless of whether the goods are presented to the Canadian
Border Services Agency during 2004 or after December 31, 2004. This also applies to textile goods transhipped through a third country or stored in sufferance warehouses if they had been shipped from the country of
origin before the end of 2004.
Canada will maintain its system of import permits in order to administer its remaining import restraints until at least the end of the ATC transition period. Canada will continue
to enforce strictly the regulations governing the importation of textiles and clothing.
Further information on the WTO Agreement on Textiles and Clothing and the last phase of quota elimination can be obtained
from:
Textiles and Clothing Trade Policy Division
Export and Import Controls Bureau
International Trade Canada
125 Sussex Drive, Tower C , 4th Floor
Ottawa, Ontario
K1A 0G2
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