Trade News

30 April 2007 United States-Mexico-Canada: Trilateral Transportation Meeting The following is excerpted from the Ministerial Declaration published on 27 April 2007. Building on the spirit of cooperation, collaboration and accomplishment that has characterized the relationship among Canada, Mexico…

30 April 2007 Pre-clearance scrapped after U.S. breaks off Canada talks This article is extracted from the 27 April 2007 edition of “The Journal of Commerce’. Truckers who haul the vast majority of goods between the United States and Canada expressed disappointment after two years’ of talks to move…

30 April 2007 Finding a border fix The following article is excerpted from the 30 April 2007 edition of the “Toronto Star”. When Canadians and Americans cross the border, the last thing they need is a major headache. So it is welcome news that the United States is hinting it may relax its impending…

30 April 2007 A bridge too far? The following article is excerpted from the 28 April 2007 edition of “globeandmail.com”. Manuel (Matty) Moroun is arguably the most powerful U.S. businessman most Americans and Canadians have never heard of…. But in the twilight of his career, the 79-year-old…

30 April 2007 Adapting to the new trade paradigm The following article is excerpted from the 27 April 2007 edition of “Canadian Transportation & Logistics”, and is written by Stephen S. Poloz, Senior Vice President and Chief Economist of Export Development Canada. Change is a constant in our lives…

30 April 2007 Vancouver toughens truck licensing The following article is excerpted from the 30 April 2007 edition of “The Journal of Commerce”. Canada’s biggest container hub, the Port of Vancouver, British Columbia, on Monday announced tougher container truck safety and environmental standards to…

27 April 2007 Wide-ranging accord with U.S., Mexico could dwarf NAFTA, MPs hear The following article is extracted from the 27 April 2007 edition of “National Post”. A Commons committee heard sharply divergent views Thursday on the North American Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP), a multi…

27 April 2007 CFIA maintenance advisory, 4, 5 and 6 May 2007 The infrastructure unit is planning for an network outage from Friday, May 4th at 11:00pm to Saturday, May 5th at 7:00am. They will be replacing some networking equipment in the Data Centre. This outage will affect the connectivity to CBSA…

27 April 2007 Test Environment Outage ACROSS TEST System, 30 April to 7 May 2007 The following is a message to all Electronic Commerce clients who transmit data to our ACROSS TEST environment. Please note that the ACROSS TEST system will be unavailable from Monday April 30th until Monday May 7th…

Wide-ranging accord with U.S., Mexico could dwarf NAFTA, MPs hear The following article is extracted from the 27 April 2007 edition of “National Post”. A Commons committee heard sharply divergent views Thursday on the North American Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP), a multi-layered…

27 April 2007 Statement from Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day in response to the breakdown of negotiations regarding land pre-clearance pilot projects The following news release was issued by Public Safety Canada on 26 April 2007, and is available on their web site, at http://www.publicsafety.gc…

27 April 2007 ACE eManifest/Trade Act Enforcement Plan The following notice is from US Customs Office of International Affairs and Trade Relations. On April 13, 2007, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) published a Federal Register Notice establishing the mandatory use of ACE electronic…

27 April 2007 Teamsters, citizen groups files suit over DOT cross-border program This article is excerpted from the 27 April 2007 edition of “American Shipper”. Citizen and labor groups, including the Teamsters union, filed suit in federal court this week to prevent implementation of a … cross…

25 April 2007 Regulations amending the Certain Ruminants and their Products Importation Prohibition Regulations, No. 2 New Prohibition Regulations On February 21, 2007, regulations amending the Health of Animals Regulations and certain regulations administered and enforced by the CFIA–SOR/2007-24…

26 April 2007 Update to CFIA AIRS Web Site a) Chapter 01 was published to change the recommendation from "Refer to CFIA" to "REFER TO CFIA - VETERINARY INSPECTION" from the United States for the following end use: * Canadian animals returning to Canada 01.02.10. Live bovine animals - Purebred…

26 April 2007 BSF5000 Importer’s Valuation Guide -- How to determine customs value for duty The Importer’s Valuation Guide has been updated to reflect change in the location of the B3 form on the CBSA web site (page 15) and location of publications and forms on the CBSA web site (page 16). The…

26 April 2007 Update to CFIA AIRS Web Site a) Chapter 21 was published - change in release recommendation for China and requirement version change for other countries. 21.06.10.6000 - Rice protein 21.06.10.6001 - Rice protein concentrate 21.06.10.6010 - Other protein or protein concentrate This…

26 April 2007 Planned AIRS Interruption, 28 April 2007 Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) has advised that they will be conducting network upgrades that will affect all services requiring Internet access on Saturday April 28th from 10:00am to 11:00am EDT. In general this includes the following…

26 April 2007 Update from TSI Terminals re Deltaport’s Terminal Operating System TSI Terminal Systems have announced that they will postpone the 21 May 2007 implementation date for their NAVIS Terminal Operating System (TOS) at Deltaport “to allow us to take the necessary time to ensure all…

26 April 2007 U.S. balks at moving Customs to Canada This article is extracted from the 26 April 2007 edition of the “Toronto Star”. The U.S. government is ditching plans to ease congestion at border crossings by moving U.S. Customs operations to the Canadian side. The first pre-clearance site for…