American Trade News Highlights for Winter, 2013 Costco Cashews: How Much Roasting Makes Them American for Purposes of NAFTA Preferential Tariff Treatment by Canada
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Abstract
HE Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) recently ruled that the reduced tariffs under the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) do not apply to Costco cashews.' Costco Wholesale Canada Ltd. (Costco) appealed the ruling, and the Canadian International Trade Tribunal (CIT-) held a public hearing to consider the appeal on October 24, 2013.2This is not the first appeal Costco has made of a CBSA classification decision of Costco products.For example, Kirkland Signature Trail Mix, a Costco brand trail mix, was the subject of an appeal drawn out over time from 2003 until finally concluding in 2005. 3 This update will discuss the applicable legislation and regulations for the origin of goods, as well as provide a background of the CBSA and the classification process it employs in determining whether a product originates within a NAFTA member country.The background of the CBSA will conclude with a discussion of the CBSA appeals process.The update will then provide a background of the CITT and its functions, with particular emphasis on the CITT appeals process.Finally, the update will provide a summary of a previous CITT decision involving NAFTA coun-*Vanessa Humm is a third-year at SMU Dedman school of Law.She is currently serving as the NAFTA Reporter for the International Law Review Association.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".