Trade News

27 August 2007 Labour Day Holiday The Electronic Commerce Unit will be closed on the Labour Day Statutory Holiday of Monday, September 3, 2007. B3 Entries processed and accepted between Saturday September 1 and Tuesday September 4 will appear on the daily K84 notice generated at the end of the day…

27 August 2007 TR-2006-002, Tricots Liesse (1983) Inc. The following recommendation was made in this investigation: In light of the foregoing, the Tribunal hereby recommends to the Minister that tariff relief be granted, for an indeterminate period of time, on importations from all countries of…

27 August 2007 Update to CFIA AIRS website Chapter 06 was published: a) to add the conditions and declaration for Light Brown Apple Moth (Epiphyas postvittana) to the requirements for California. 06.02.10.0009.07 - Small cranberry - Unrooted plants 06.02.10.0009.12 - Lingonberry - Unrooted plants 06…

27 August 2007 CFIA Production Database Backup This is a reminder that a full database backup of the production database (PROD) is scheduled for Saturday, 1 September 2007. CFIA systems will be unavailable from 3am to 7am EST. Please note that full database backups of the production database (PROD)…

27 August 2007 New Trade Publication Available for CSCB Members - TradeWatch The quarterly publication "TradeWatch" has been made available to CSCB members by Ernst & Young. The June, 2007 edition is of particular interest because it provides an extensive article on the forthcoming certification of…

27 August 2007 Summary of the Report of the APHIS-CBP Joint Task Force on Improved Agriculture Inspection US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has issued its report of the APHIS-CBP Joint Task Force on Improved Agriculture Inspection, found at: http://www.customs.gov/linkhandler/cgov/import…

27 August 2007 ACE A1 Implementation Is Postponed The following notice is from the Department of Homeland Security. Due to an ABI software limitation, the implementation of ACE A1, Enhanced Accounts and Master Data, is being postponed until September 2007. All related implementation procedures are…

27 August 2007 Japan shrinks trade surplus The following is excerpted from the 24 August 2007 edition of “Journal of Commerce”. Japan’s merchandise trade surplus contracted for the first time in nine months in July, shrinking over 20 percent from the same month in 2006, according to preliminary…

24 August 2007 Certain Hot-rolled Steel Plate, Expiry Review Decision (Expiry Review No.: RR-2007-001) On April 25, 2007, the Canadian International Trade Tribunal (the Tribunal), pursuant to subsection 76.03(3) of the Special Import Measures Act (SIMA), initiated an expiry review of its order made…

24 August 2007 CN07-025, Air Cargo or Conveyance Reference Number Reuse Time Frames The purpose of this notice is to advise clients of a policy and systems change allowing air cargo reference numbers for the following reports to be reused after one year instead of maintaining the current requirement…

24 August 2007 CN07-008 Measures to Increase the use of EDI for Release Purposes Customs Notice CN07-008 advises that FIRST will be eliminated on 31 January 2008 and that paper RMD and paper PARS service options will not be accepted as of 15 October 2007. With respect to the latter, CBSA has…

24 August 2007 New form for Agreement to Maintain Books & Records Outside of Canada The following message is from Brigitte Philippe of Compliance Management Division at the CBSA. Members are advised that the Books & Records Program has changed its location. To reflect this change, they have updated…

24 August 2007 New Version of AIRS The following message is from the National Import Operations Division. A new version of the AIRS system will be rolled out by the end of the day on 4 September 2007. This system upgrade is to address the periodic problem some of our clients experienced when using…

24 August 2007 Trade Data Online Canadian import and export data are now updated to June 2007, and the Canadian data for the year 2006 has been revised and is available on the StatsCanada website at: http://strategis.ic.gc.ca/sc_mrkti/tdst/engdoc/tr_homep.html. U.S. import and export data are now…

24 August 2007 Lumber ouput slips to 5-year low The following article is extracted from the 24 August 2007 edition of the “Toronto Star”. Canadian lumber production continued its downward spiral in June amid signs on both sides of the border that an end to the slump is nowhere in sight. June…

24 August 2007 Inflation Report from the Canadian Chamber of Commerce Headline inflation, as measured by the All-items consumer price index (CPI), rose 2.2% in July 2007 compared to a year earlier. It has remained stable at 2.2% for the last four months. Much of the upward pressure on the all-items…

24 August 2007 Minister Day launches the NEXUS program at Winnipeg International Airport The following is excerpted from the CBSA news release on 23 August 2007. The Minister of Public Safety, the Honourable Stockwell Day, and U.S. Customs and Border Protection Acting Port Director Michael…

24 August 2007 Shippers criticize passport rule The following is excerpted from the 23 August 2007 edition of “The Journal of Commerce”. Trade and transport interests have renewed their opposition to a U.S. plan requiring passports for travelers entering the U.S. at land crossings with Canada and…