Trade News

1 April 2008 Notice of Re-investigation Certain copper pipe fittings The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) has initiated a re-investigation of the normal values and export prices of certain copper pipe fittings originating in or exported from the United States of America, the Republic of Korea…

1 April 2008 Latest Updates to the Trade Negotiations and Agreements Website Consultations on the Doha Round Trade Facilitation Negotiations The purpose of this notice is to seek views from interested Canadian stakeholders regarding textual proposals submitted by WTO Members in the context of the…

1 April 2008 Scheduled Maintenance Outage, 6 April 2008 Message EDI08-028 The following is a message to all Electronic Commerce clients from the Canada Border Services Agency. EDI Mailbox outage: Please be advised that due to maintenance, the mailboxes between ACROSS and CCS/CADEX will be down on…

1 April 2008 Proposed Regulations Amending Canada's Energy Efficiency Regulations The following notice concerns a proposed amendment to the Energy Efficiency Regulations. Members may wish to comment on the proposal, and may wish to familiarize themselves with the proposed changes to minimum energy…

1 April 2008 Democrats Decry “Inventorying” of Trade Barriers, Call for Immediate Action This article is extracted from the 1 April 2008 edition of “World Trade\Interactive”. In a letter sent to President Bush the same day the National Trade Estimate report was issued, 14 Democratic members of the…

1 April 2008 On Paper, Wall Street Gets Its Way This article is excerpted from the 1 April 2008 edition of “The New York Times”. More than a year ago, when the markets were flying high, a chorus of alarm went up on Wall Street. Talk spread that the United States risked losing its edge in the…

1 April 2008 U.S., EU seek mutual recognition of supply chain security programs This article is excerpted from the 31 March 2008 edition of “The Journal of Commerce”. Further information on the US-EU roadmap is found in the news release from US Customs onthis subject, sent to members on 28 March and…

1 April 2008 WTO backs U.S., Canada in dispute with EU This article is excerpted from the 1 April 2008 edition of “globeandmail.com”. The United States and Canada can keep in place sanctions worth $125-million (U.S.) a year on European products such as Roquefort cheese, truffles and Dijon mustard…

31 M arch 2008 Charest's inspiring trade vision The following article is excerpted from the 31 March 2008 edition of “globeandmail.com”. Quebeckers have the reputation of being insular, somewhat locked inside the only francophone society in North America. But their past - and their present - belie…

31 March 2008 Reminder – First CCS Quiz Finishes Today! CCS designates are reminded that the deadline for the first quiz is today at 2:00 pm EDT. This is an excellent opportunity to gain ten (10) professional development points towards maintenance of your CCS designation in 2008, and we encourage…

31 March 2008 Update for CFIA AIRS Web Site A) Chapter 06 was published to add the requirements for the following HS codes for all countries. 06.02.90.0023.98 Cercis - rooted plants. 06.02.10.0011.91 Cercis - Unrooted plants. B) Chapter 06 was published to change the requirements numbers for the…

31 March 2008 Business leaders fixate on ailing U.S. economy The following article is extracted from the 31 March 2008 edition of “globeandmail.com”. While Canadian C-Suite executives unanimously believe the U.S. economy is in the tank and likely to remain there for some time, there are diverging…

Please be reminded that the deadline for the first CCS quiz is today at 2:00 pm EDT. This is an excellent opportunity to gain ten (10) professional development points towards maintenance of your CCS designation in 2008, and we encourage all designates to consider this option. You will find the quiz…

31 March 2008 Budget 2008 -- Excise Duty on Imitation Spirits, EDN20 The federal budget presented by the government on 26 February 2008 proposed a measure relating to the excise duty on imitation spirits. This measure would place a limit of 11.9 percent as the maximum allowable alcohol concentration…

31 March 2008 Koch: Container industry not big enough to fund highways This article is extracted from the 28 March 2008 edition of “American Shipper”. The U.S. government should not look to the container-shipping industry as a major source of income to improve highway infrastructure, said…

31 March 2008 The Drug Scare That Exposed a World of Hurt This article is excerpted from the 30 March 2008 edition of “The New York Times”. When cold medicine containing a poison made in China killed nearly 120 Panamanians in 2006 and early 2007, Americans could take some comfort in the belief that…

31 March 2008 Study: Ship security system has “grave shortcomings” This article is extracted from the 28 March 2008 edition of “American Shipper”. A recent academic report from Singapore said there are "grave shortcomings" with ship security alert systems "which, if not corrected, will leave a…

31 March 2008 Doha is not dead This article, by Karl Meilke of the University of Guelph, is extracted from the 30 March 2008 edition of “globeandmail.com”. Many commentators assume that the Doha round of World Trade Organization negotiations have already failed, and that failure would not matter for…

31 March 2008 European shippers want feedback to help cut out documentation errors This article is extracted from the 31 March 2008 edition of “American Shipper”. The European Shippers’ Council (ESC) is calling for comments and suggestions on a new tool designed to eradicate errors in transport…