Administrative Monetary Penalty System
C063

Contravention

Licensee failed to provide a list of all goods not removed from the sufferance warehouse within the time limit prescribed in subsection 15(1), 15(2), 15(3) or 15(4) of the Customs Sufferance Warehouses Regulations, as the case may have been, on the first business day following the end of that period.

Penalty

Occurrence Penalty
1st $1,000
2nd $2,000
3rd and subsequent $4,000
Penalty basis
Per shipment
Retention period
12 months

Guidelines

Non-compliance occurs when the licensee fails to provide a list of all goods not removed from the sufferance warehouse within the prescribed time limit. The goods may, at the end of that limitation period, be deposited in a place of safe-keeping as provided for in subsection 37(1) of the Act.

The licensee must provide a list of all the goods not removed from the sufferance warehouse within 40 days after the day the goods were reported under section 12 of the Customs Act.

Perishable goods must be removed from the sufferance warehouse within four days after the day on which they were reported under section 12 of the Act.

Prescribed substances within the meaning of the Atomic Energy Control Act or prescribed items within the meaning of the Atomic Energy Control Regulations must be removed from the sufferance warehouse within 14 days after the day on which they were reported under section 12 of the Act.

Tobacco products, distilled spirits, firearms, weapons and ammunition constitute a class of goods that are forfeit if they are not removed from a sufferance warehouse within 14 days after the day on which they were reported under section 12 of the Act.

References

Regulation

Customs Sufferance Warehouses Regulations, subsection 15(5)

D-Memo

D4-1-4, Customs Sufferance Warehouses

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