Update to CFIA AIRS website

Chapter 07 was published to streamline the conditions for the following HS codes for all countries except the Continental United States.

07.09.51.0000 - Mushrooms and truffles: Mushrooms of the genus Agaricus
07.09.59.0000 - Mushrooms and truffles: Other

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Oil Country Tubular Goods, Preliminary Injury Inquiries

IN THE MATTER OF a preliminary injury inquiry, under subsection 34(2) of the Special Import Measures Act, respecting:

OIL COUNTRY TUBULAR GOODS ORIGINATING IN OR EXPORTED FROM THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA

PRELIMINARY DETERMINATION OF INJURY

The Canadian International Trade Tribunal, under the provisions of subsection 34(2) of the Special Import Measures Act, has conducted a preliminary injury inquiry into whether the evidence discloses a reasonable indication that the dumping and subsidizing of oil country tubular goods originating in or exported from the People’s Republic of China, made of carbon or alloy steel, welded or seamless, heat-treated or not heat-treated, regardless of end finish, having an outside diameter from 2 3/8 inches to 13 3/8 inches (60.3 mm to 339.7 mm), meeting or supplied to meet American Petroleum Institute specification 5CT or equivalent standard, in all grades, excluding drill pipe and excluding seamless casing up to 11 3/4 inches (298.5 mm) in outside diameter, have caused injury or retardation or are threatening to cause injury.

This preliminary injury inquiry is pursuant to the notification, on August 24, 2009, that the President of the Canada Border Services Agency had initiated an investigation into the alleged injurious dumping and subsidizing of the above-mentioned goods.

Pursuant to subsection 37.1(1) of the Special Import Measures Act, the Canadian International Trade Tribunal hereby determines that there is evidence that discloses a reasonable indication that the dumping and subsidizing of the above-mentioned goods have caused injury.

This notice is available on the CBSA website at: http://www.citt.gc.ca/dumping/preinq/determin/pi2j003_e.asp.

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NAFTA partners break seven-month surface trade decline

This article is extracted from the 9 November 2009 edition of “Canadian Transportation & Logistics”.

Trade using surface transportation between Canada, the US and Mexico was 24.9% lower in August 2009 than in August 2008, coming in at $54.3 billion, according to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) of the US Department of Transportation. But that figure was still good enough to break a seven-month skid in surface trade numbers. …

US–Canada surface transportation trade totalled $32.9 billion in August, down 29.6% compared to August 2008. The value of imports carried by truck was 26.1% lower in August 2009 compared to August 2008, while the value of exports carried by truck was 17.0% lower during this period.

And after briefly losing top spot to Illinois in July, Michigan once again led all states in surface trade with Canada in August with $3.8 billion.

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Canada talks boldly about free trade but does nothing to achieve it

This article, by Jeffrey Simpson, is excerpted from the 10 November 2009 edition of “globeandmail.com”.

Pascal Lamy, the head of the World Trade Organization, was in Canada last week and displayed why he is one of the world's top diplomats.

Asked at a gala dinner in Toronto about Canada's supply-managed agricultural sector, he said some countries want free trade in