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13 January 2006 The CFIA has provided information on revisions to the following Directives: Revision to Directive D-03-02, Canadian Heat Treated Wood Products Certification Program CFIA Directive D-03-02, "Canadian Heat Treated Wood Products Certification Program (CHTWPCP)", has been revised and is…

13 January 2006 Minutes of GTA-Commercial District CBSA/CSCB Meeting, November 2005 The minutes of the GTA-Commercial District CBSA/CSCB meeting held on 17 November 2005 are available to members only on the Toronto Region page of the CSCB web site, at: http://www.cscb.ca/m00/m02/docs/rgto_min…

12 January 2006 Exports of Wood Products to Korea, Taiwan, China, India and Mexico (Removal from CFIA Web Site) CFIA has advised that Update 11 will be removed from their web site, as the information contained in this update could not be maintained on a regular basis. The initial purpose of the…

12 January 2006 Scheduled Maintenance on 14 and 15 January 2006 The following message is from the Electronic Commerce Unit at the CBSA. EDI Mailbox outage: Please be advised that, due to scheduled maintenance, the mailboxes between ACROSS and CCS/CADEX will be down on Saturday, January 14th, 2006…

12 January 2006 Canadian accounting rules to be replaced The following article is excerpted from the 11 January 2006 edition of “globeandmail.com”. The accounting rules known as Canadian GAAP are destined to disappear, Canada's accounting standards setters announced…. The Accounting Standards Board…

12 January 2006 Renewal expected for export controls bill The following article is extracted from the 11 January 2006 edition of “The Journal of Commerce”. The White House is giving its support to legislation that will renew the Export Administration Act for two years, a Commerce Department official…

12 January 2006 China triples trade surplus The following article is excerpted from the 11 January 2006 edition of “The Journal of Commerce”. China … announced that its global trade surplus tripled to a record $102 billion in 2005. Exports reached a record $762 billion, up 28 percent, while imports…

11 January 2006 CN632 Revised B13A Export Declaration Form The purpose of Customs Notice 632 is to remind the exporting community that the Form B13A, Export Declaration, was revised in November 2004 and some minor changes will be made to the completion instructions in early 2006. The 2004 and 2006…

11 January 2006 Quay Development Ltd., Appeal No. AP-2002-012 IN THE MATTER OF an appeal heard on July 14, 2005, under section 81.19 of the Excise Tax Act, R.S.C. 1985, c. E-15; AND IN THE MATTER OF a decision of the Minister of National Revenue dated February 15, 2002, pursuant to subsection 121(3)…

11 January 2006 CFIA HS Code List Updates The following message is from Kim Rodrigue, in the National Imports Operations Division in the CFIA. Please note that HS code 2835250000 has been added to the CFIA HS Code Target List maintained on the CBSA web site, at: http://www.cbsa-asfc.gc.ca/eservices…

11 January 2006 Canada Launches Challenge of New US Softwood Duty Rate The following is excerpted from a news release issued by International Trade Canada on 11 January. The entire document is available on the ITC web site, at: http://w01.international.gc.ca/MinPub/Publication.asp?Language=E…

11 January 2006 Determination of the Safety of Monsanto Canada Inc. and KSW SAAT AG’s Roundup Ready Sugar Beet (Beta vulgaris ssp vulgaris L.) Event H7-1 This Decision Document has been prepared to explain the regulatory decision reached under Directive 94-08 (Dir94-08), entitled "Assessment…

11 January 2006 Economist says loonie could exceed 90 cents The following article is excerpted from the 10 January 2006 edition of “The Windsor Star”. The Canadian dollar … could soar above 90 cents US during the next two years, says Scotiabank's chief economist. Warren Jestin made the remarks…

11 January 2006 ID cards may speed up U.S. border crossings The following article is excerpted from the 11 January 2006 edition of the “Toronto Star”. A senior homeland security official says requiring Canadians and Americans to carry passports to cross the international border by land could slow…

10 January 2006 CFIA Allows Importation of Meat Products Derived from Beef from Japan Effective immediately, the importation of meat products derived from fresh (frozen, chilled) beef from Japan to Canada is allowed. Amended Conditions for Importation of Meat Products from Japan to Canada are found…

10 January 2006 Tricots Liesse (1983) Inc., Request No. TR-1004-001 Recommendation …. [T]he Tribunal hereby recommends to the Minister that tariff relief be granted, for an indeterminate period of time, on importations from all countries of synthetic filament yarn, solely of nylon, textured…

10 January 2006 Chapter 49 of 2006 Tariff CBSA have advised that there are approximately 6 pages missing in the Chapter 49 of the English version of the Customs Tariff. Pages are also missing from the general information section of Chapter 49. These pages will be included in the first amendment…