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US Customs and Border Protection has reminded stakeholders that the Agreement Between the United States of America, the United Mexican States, and Canada (USMCA) Interim Final Rule (IFR) will become effective on March 18, 2025. This IFR adds to the existing 19 CFR 182 implementing regulations and…

At the CSCB, we are committed to providing our members with the information, resources, and support they need to succeed. To ensure our communications and member services continue to meet your expectations, we invite you to share your insights through this survey, which will be open until March 17…

The European Union announced retaliatory tariffs against the US imposing a 25% import tariff on aluminum and steel, focusing on U.S. industrial and farm products valued at 26billion euros. Products such as steel and aluminum products textiles home appliances agricultural goods beef poultry…

New Foot-Mouth Disease (FMD) instructions have been implemented in the Automated Import Reference System (AIRS) for commodities originating from Hungary and Slovakia. The affected commodities can be found in the following link: Foot and Mouth Disease – Disease Freedom . The changes applied can be…

" The Canada Border Services Agency is preparing a scheduled, planned system outage to conduct maintenance during the morning of March 15, 2025 (EDT). Many systems in the commercial stream – and some in the travellers stream – will not be available during the outage." The CSCB has asked the CBSA to…

With the following messaging US Customs and Border Protection confirmed that imports of Canadian aluminum and steel will be subject to 25% import duties, as of 12:01am March 12, 2025. Please click each link below for more information. CSMS # 64384496 - UPDATED GUIDANCE: Import Duties on Imports of…

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) delays in processing have been resolved. Thank you for your cooperation. Fin des retards de traitement des déclarations d’importation de l’ACIA Les retards dans le traitement des déclarations d’importation de l’Agence canadienne d’inspection des aliments…

Environment and Climate Change Canada have distributed a reminder that the Amendments to the Formaldehyde Regulations (CANFER) are coming into force this month, 90 days after being published in the Canada Gazette Part 2 on December 18, 2024. The amendments: remove the accreditation requirement for…

As part of CFIA’s ongoing efforts to improve client service, please be advised that CFIA will be performing network maintenance on: March 16, 2025 from 3:00 am to 7:00 am (ET) Consequently, the following services may not be available for this period: Automated Import Reference System (AIRS) CFIA…

Start Date / Time 2025-03-11 10:08 (ET) End Date / Time 2025-03-11 13:39 (ET) The problem reported below has been resolved. The CBSA is currently experiencing intermittent access problems with the Canadian Export Reporting System (CERS), eManifest and CARM Client Portals. The CBSA is actively…

The National Commodity Specialist Division (NCSD), Office of Trade, has published the 2025 schedule of webinars, focused on "Balancing Fair Trade". 60 minute webinars will be held March through September 2025, starting at 1:30 ET. Registration for March and April webinars is now open, links for each…

Please be advised that a new outbreak of Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) has been identified in Hungary & Slovakia. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) is implementing import measures to safeguard the health of Canada’s livestock and mitigate the economic impact of a potential FMD outbreak in…

Today, the media is reporting that the U.S. will raise tariffs on Canadian steel and aluminum imports by an additional 25%, bringing the total duties to 50%, effective tomorrow morning, Wednesday March 12. It's reported that this is in response to Ontario's move to impose a 25% surcharge on…

Start Date / Time 2025-03-11 10:08 (ET) End Date / Time Initial investigation underway Clients Affected All clients submitting trade data using the eManifest, CERS and CARM Client portals. The CBSA is currently experiencing intermittent access problems with the Canadian Export Reporting System (CERS…

On February 10, 2025, the President of the United States signed executive orders adjusting imports of steel and aluminum into the United States. Reference FRN 2025-02833 and FRN 2025-02832 for additional information. All Section 232 tariff rate and absolute quotas shall expire on March 11, 2025. All…

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency’s (CFIA) National Import Service Centre (NISC) is experiencing delays in processing import declarations. All CFIA systems are functioning as expected, and clients are asked to continue sending all CFIA electronic declarations using the Integrated Import…

A) Chapter 04 Chapter 04 was published to change the release recommendation to “Refuse Entry” for the following HS codes originating from Hungary and Slovakia: 04.06.10.3567 – Mozzarella cheese, pizza cheese, cottage cheese, whey cheese, curds and cream cheese – Unpasteurized 04.06.20.3576 – Variety…

On March 6, 2025, the CBSA concluded Expiry Review No. RR-2018-007, concerning the dumping of hot-rolled carbon steel plate originating in or exported from Bulgaria, Czech Republic and Romania. It was found that the expiry of the order is unlikely to result in the dumping of such goods from Bulgaria…

On March 6, 2025, t he Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) initiated a review to determine normal values, export prices and amounts of subsidy applicable to certain carbon steel fasteners (fasteners) originating in or exported from the People’s Republic of China (China) by Robertson (Jiaxing) Inc…