Trade News

8 June 2007 Excise and GST/HST News, No 64 (Spring 2007) The “Excise and GST/HST News” from the Canada Revenue Agency for the spring of 2007 is available on the CRA web site, at: http://www.cra-arc.gc.ca/E/pub/gr/news64/README.html

8 June 2007 Scheduled Electrical Power Shutdown Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) will conduct a scheduled electrical power shutdown to perform required maintenance on power distribution components within their data centre. Date : Saturday June 16, 2007 Time : From 6:00 am (EDT) until 11:59 pm…

8 June 2007 Power Outage on 10 June for Eastern Import Service Centre EISC (Eastern Import Service Centre) will have a possible service interruption on Sun. June 10 from 6:00-8:00am. The interruption is due to electrical works by Hydro-Quebec. A transformer is supposed to take over the power lines…

7 June 2007 CN Quick Trace System Members using CN's Quick Trace System were advised that, effective June 4, 2007, the Quick Trace System could only be accessed by the parties listed on the ocean bill of lading. Many customs brokers use the Quick Trace System to determine the ETA and/or location of…

7 June 2007 Western RV Coach Inc. v CBSA, Appeal No. AP-2006-002 Decision and reasons issued Monday, April 23, 2007 IN THE MATTER OF an appeal heard on December 19, 2006, under subsection 67(1) of the Customs Act, R.S.C. 1985 (2d Supp.), c. 1; AND IN THE MATTER OF a decision of the President of the…

7 June 2007 Husky Oil Limited, Application No. EP-2007-001 Order issued Wednesday, June 6, 2007 IN THE MATTER OF an application made by Husky Oil Limited, under section 81.32 of the Excise Tax Act, for an order extending the time to serve a notice of objection under section 81.17 of the Excise Tax…

7 June 2007 Error regarding Customs Notice CN625 On 6 June CN625 appeared on the “What’s New” section of the CBSA web site. Further investigation shows that no change had occurred regarding this Notice. Several Customs Notices that had been retained in the CRA inventory have now been reclaimed by…

7 June 2007 New Free Trade Deal for Canada The following is excerpted from a news release issued on 7 June by Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada. The Honourable David Emerson, Minister of International Trade… welcomed the conclusion of free trade negotiations with the European Free Trade…

7 June 2007 Scheduled Maintenance Outage on 10 June 2007 The following is a message to all Electronic Commerce clients from the Canada Border Services Agency. General EDI Outage : For maintenance purposes, the Customs EDI system will be unavailable from 0:30 am until 4:30 am (ET) on Sunday June 10th…

7 June 2007 PC 2007-720, Order Amending the Schedule to the Customs Tariff (Harmonized System Conversion, 2007), No. 3 Pc 2007-720 is the Order Amending the Schedule to the Customs Tariff (Harmonized System Conversion, 2007), No. 3. Amendments Tariff item No. 5514.32.00 in the List of Tariff…

7 June 2007 First free-trade deal in 6 years expected The following article is excerpted from the 7 June 2007 edition of “globeandmail.com”. Federal Trade Minister David Emerson is expected to announce Thursday that Ottawa is wrapping up free-trade talks with four European countries: Norway…

7 June 2007 Flooding could disrupt Vancouver port rail traffic The following article is excerpted from the 7 June 2007 edition of “The Journal of Commerce”. Canadian National Railway warned that flooding was expected to disrupt trains moving to and from the Port of Vancouver on its mainline tracks…

7 June 2007 Update to CFIA AIRS Web Site Chapter 06 was published a) to update the requirements for chrysanthemums from the United States 06.02.10.0012.01 - Chrysanthemum - Unrooted plants (as greenhouse plant) 06.02.90.0024.91 - Chrysanthemum - rooted plants (commercial houseplant produced in…

7 June 2007 US logistics costs reach 9.9% of GDP in 2006 This article is excerpted from the 7 June 2007 edition of “American Shipper”. Logistics costs for U.S. businesses rose 11 percent in 2006 to $1.31 trillion, outpacing the economy (3.5 percent) and nearing the psychological threshold of 10…

6 June 2007 Fact Sheet for Fish By-product Renderers Regarding the Enhanced Feed Ban Beginning July 12, 2007 This fact sheet was published by the CFIA on 5 June, and is available in its entirety at http://www.inspection.gc.ca/english/anima/heasan/disemala/bseesb/enhren… On July 12, 2007…

6 June 2007 CN625 Certain Flat Hot-Rolled Carbon and Alloy Steel Sheet and Strip This Notice advises that the CBSA has concluded an investigation of normal values, export prices and amounts of subsidy on June 29, 2005, pursuant to the SIMA, in respect of certain flat hot-rolled carbon and alloy…

6 June 2007 Unions and Canadian Pacific reach tentative contract agreement The following news release was issued this morning by CPR. At approximately 0630 EDT June 6, 2007 the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference – Maintenance of Way Employees Division (TCRC-MWED), representing 3,200 maintenance of way…

Update to CFIA AIRS Web Site a) Please note that the Import Declaration (Registration type 9) was changed to Importer's Declaration (Registration type 481) for the following HS codes. 05.11.99.1567 Pet chews 42.05.00.1567 Pet chews b) Chapter 21 was published. Two registration types were…

5 June 2007 Agency Steps up Border Measures for Imported Vegetable Proteins The following is excerpted from a news release issued on 4 June by the CFIA; the release is found at: http://www.inspection.gc.ca/english/corpaffr/newcom/2007/20070604e.shtml While the CFIA is continuing to hold and test…