Clients Affected: All importers and brokers who use EDI to transmit their trade data.

Further to Customs Notice CN17-037 pertaining to the January 1, 2018 Version of the Departmental Consolidation of the Customs Tariff https://www.cbsa-asfc.gc.ca/publications/cn-ad/cn17-37-eng.html, please be advised that the 2018 classification file updates and 2017 classification file expiries as well as the 2018 tariff file updates in CADEX format are now available on the CBSA website at: https://www.cbsa-asfc.gc.ca/trade-commerce/tariff-tarif/2018/menu-eng.html

Given that this will be a large update, the classification and tariff code flags have been turned off until January 3, 2018.

Action Required: Importers and brokers seeking to update their systems with the new Customs Tariff classification information should download the files from the CBSA website.