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17 January 2007 Message from CBSA re: Test Environment Outage CCS/CADEX The following message is from the CBSA Electronic Commerce Unit. The following is a message to all Electronic Commerce clients who transmit data to our CCS/CADEX TEST environment. In order to complete a systems migration, the…

15 January 2007 Information from Border Commercial Consultative Committee Meeting, October 2006 Presentations from the BCCC meeting held in October, 2006 are available on the CSCB web site, as follow: AMPS Review http://www.cscb.ca/listinfo/ampsreviewstatusbcccoct06.ppt AMPS Subcommittee http://www…

15 December 2007 CBSA message re: EDI Advice Note to Consignee Given the move to electronic cargo reporting by the carrier to the CBSA, some participating EDI carriers now provide an electronic version of the advice note to the consignee (importer/broker) via email, etc. Therefore the carrier is not…

15 January 2007 Canada invests over $430M for smart, secure borders This news release was issued by the CBSA on 12 January 2007. The Honourable Stockwell Day, Minister of Public Safety, today announced an investment of $431.6M over five years to reinforce smart, secure borders. This funding will…

15 January 2007 Canadian trade volumes bounce back in November This article is excerpted from the 12 January 2007 edition of “Canadian Transportation & Logistics”. Canada's exports rose 2.8% in November, halting two consecutive declines, with increases in all sectors but agriculture and forestry…

15 January 2007 New CBP Cargo Release Program to Facilitate Trade This news release was issued by US Customs and Border Protection on 12 January 2007. U.S. Customs and Border Protection this week implemented the National Agriculture Release Program (NARP), a system that identifies high-volume…

12 January 2007 An Overview of Anaplasmosis and Assessing the Risks for Canada -- Reviewing the Canadian Food Inspection Agency’s import policy for anaplasmosis for ruminant animals imported from the United States The following is excerpted from a consultation paper produced by the CFIA; the paper…

12 January 2007 D19-4-1 INTERIM Export of Controlled Cultural Property (Cultural Property Export and Import Act) This interim Memorandum contains updated information made ONLY to paragraphs 19 and 20 of Memorandum D19-4-1, Export of Controlled Cultural Property (Cultural Property Export and Import…

12 January 2007 Textile and Clothing Commodity Codes NAFTA Export TPL - Cotton or man-made fibre apparel made from fabric produced or obtained from a non-NAFTA country Discrepancies between Canadian export and U.S. import statistics have been identified for cotton or man-made fibre apparel made from…

12 January 2007 Update to CFIA AIRS Web Site Chapter 02 was published. Frozen farmed reindeer carcasses are now accepted from Greenland. This resulted in version changes for a number of requirements for the HS Codes listed below - for various countries other than the United States. Please check the…

12 January 2007 Ottawa aims to speed cargo crossings The following article is excerpted from the 12 January 2007 edition of “globeandmail.com”. The Harper government will unveil measures to speed up the movement of cargo between the United States and Canada today -- using "e-manifests" -- as part of…

11 January 2007 CFIA Systems Problems on 10 January CFIA reported last evening that their systems were down and EDI and AIRS were unavailable. Access was restored early this morning, and CFIA is looking to see if there was any data loss experienced. We will inform members as soon as further details…

11 January 2007 Update to CFIA AIRS Web Site Chapter 07 was published. Change in release recommendation for the United States. 07.05.11.3027.01 - Iceberg lettuce - with spinach 07.05.19.3028.01 - Other lettuce - with spinach 07.09.70 - Spinach, New Zealand spinach and orache spinach (garden spinach)

11 January 2007 Softwood Lumber Exports to the United States: List of Allocation Holders Notice to Exporters Serial No. 149 1.0 Background The Canada-U.S. Softwood Lumber Agreement 2006 (the Agreement) provides for the making of export allocations to exporters of certain softwood lumber products to…

11 January 2007 Data Loss at CFIA on 10 January 2007 The following message is from the National Import Operations Division at the CFIA. Due to the problems that CFIA encountered yesterday with our interface anything that was sent after 12:30pm Jan 10, 2007 may have been lost. If you have not…

11 January 2007 Message from CBSA re CFIA Connectivity Members experiencing any problems when resending CFIA transactions are advised by CBSA to contact the EDI Hotline at 1-888-957-7224.

11 January 2007 Scheduled Maintenance Outage for 14 January 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 5:00 am until 8:00 am (ET) on Sunday…

11 January 2007 Amended Chapters – Tariff Amendment T2007-1 The following message is from the CBSA. The amended chapters related to Tariff amendment T2007-1 are available on the CSCB web site, at: http://www.cscb.ca/listinfo/t2007-1winzippedfiles.zip (English) http://www.cscb.ca/listinfo/t2007…