Barq's Diet Root Beer from Mexico
Barq's Diet Root Beer is a carbonated root beer with a spicy flavour, sweetened with aspartame and acesulfame-K, and contains no added sugar. It is a non-alcoholic beverage with an alcoholic strength by volume not exceeding 0.5% vol, qualifying for tariff item 2202.10.00 as a flavoured water with added sweetening matter.
Duty Rate — Mexico → Canada
11%
Import Tips
• Maintain documentation showing the alcoholic strength by volume is 0.5% or less to support classification under this tariff item
• Declare the high-intensity sweeteners (aspartame, acesulfame-K) on the commercial invoice
• Verify that the product is not prepared for culinary purposes, which would exclude it from Chapter 22