Trade News

13 December 2005 PC 2005-2206 Regulations Amending the Refund of Duties Regulations The Refund of Duties Regulations are being amended to allow CSA importers to offset any credits, before payment is made to the CBSA, if a refund has been granted by the Minister under subsections 74(1) and (6) of the…

13 December 2005 PC 2005-2205 Regulations Amending the Presentation of Persons (Customs) Regulations and the Presentation of Persons (2003) Regulations The Regulations Amending the Presentation of Persons (Customs) Regulations and the Presentation of Persons (2003) Regulations align the advance…

13 December 2005 PC 2005-2204 Regulations Amending the Imported Goods Records Regulations Regarding the Imported Good Records Regulations, the Regulations are being amended to reflect the recordkeeping requirements for CSA importers, such as all records that relate to commercial goods that are…

13 December 2005 PC 2005-2203 Regulations Amending the Accounting for Imported Goods and Payment of Duties Regulations The Regulations Amending the Accounting for Imported Goods and Payment of Duties Regulations are necessary to implement a group of programs to allow pre-approved, low-risk…

13 December 2005 PC 2005-2210 Regulations Amending the Ships’ Stores Regulations The Ships’ Stores Regulations do not provide excise tax relief for fuel used in Canadian naval vessels, although relief is provided for foreign warships and for military aircraft (including Canadian military aircraft)…

12 December 2005 Tariff Notice TN-12 – Revised Notice The CBSA has made the following changes (these are in upper-case letters) to the notice sent on Friday, 9 December concerning 2006 Departmental Consolidation of the Customs Tariff: • pursuant to section 82 of the Customs Tariff, the Order…

12 December 2005 Japanese Border Opens to Canadian Beef The following is excerpted from a news release issued by the CFIA on 11 December 2005. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) announced [yesterday] that Japan has agreed to reopen its border to Canadian beef and selected beef products from…

12 December 2005 AA Records Update The following message is from the Electronic Commerce Unit at the CBSA. Please note that SOR/2005-370 is not yet available on the Canada Gazette web site, since the last edition of Part II was issued on 1 December. Please be advised that the Customs Commercial…

12 December 2005 PC 2005-2212 Stainless Steel Round Wire Products Anti-Dumping Duty Remission Order PC 2005-2212 is the Stainless Steel Round Wire Products Anti-Dumping Duty Remission Order. “Stainless steel round wire products” means: (a) stainless steel belting wire used in the production of…

12 December 2005 RILA Urges Department of Homeland Security to Use C-TPAT Program as Model for Public-Private Partnership The following article is excerpted from the 12 December 2005 edition of “Canadian Transportation & Logistics”. The US-based Retail Industry Leaders Association (RILA), which…

9 December 2005 Scheduled Outage, 11 December 2005 The following is a message from the Electronic Commerce Unit of the Canada Border Services Agency. In order to complete a systems migration, the Customs EDI system will be unavailable from 4:30 am until 9:00 am (ET) on Sunday December 11th, 2005…

9 December 2005 Tariff Notice TN-12 The CBSA has made the following changes to the 2006 Departmental Consolidation of the Customs Tariff: • pursuant to section 82 of the Customs Tariff, the Order Amending the Schedule to the Customs Tariff 2005-4 (changes to Chapter 44 only) • pursuant to section 82…

9 December 2005 CFIA Regulated Goods and CN The CSCB participated in a recent conference call with representatives from the CBSA, CFIA, CN and CP concerning CN's requirement for hard-copy confirmation, from CFIA, that goods have been approved for release and have met CFIA requirements. If the…

9 December 2005 EICS Christmas Hours of Operation The following message is from the EICB. The EICS will close at 20:00 EST (8pm) on Saturday December 24th and will resume at 04:00 EST Monday December 26th as normal. Monday and Tuesday, December 26 & 27 2005 are designated government holidays, and…

9 December 2005 Clearance of Airfreights at “Wheels Up” The following message is from the Electronic Commerce Unit at the CBSA. The purpose of this message is to clarify the policy of CBSA concerning the clearance of airfreight at “wheels up”. As of December 12, 2005, air carriers will be able to…

9 December 2005 New ACROSS Error Code The following message is from the Electronic Commerce Unit at the CBSA. On December 12, 2005, there will be 5 new error codes in ACROSS. Since the internal ACROSS Element ID Numbers below did not have any external error numbers assigned to them in the past, the…

9 December 2005 CN Intermodal Terminal Holiday Hours CN's Intermodal Terminal hours for the holiday period are now available on the CN IMX website -- click on Terminal Schedule under What's New. http://www.cn.ca/productsservices/intermodal/en_IMX.shtml http://www.cn.ca/productsservices/intermodal/en…

9 December 2005 Further Information concerning Clearance of Airfreights at “Wheels Up” Further to the message sent earlier today regarding Air Freight at Wheels-Up, the CBSA has advised that wheels-up can only be used with Air Canada shipments at Toronto's PIA and with FedEx air shipments in…

9 December 2005 PC 2005-2066 Hunter Douglas Canada Remission Order This Order remits antidumping duties in the amount of $103,527.64 payable on certain wood slats from the PRC processed in the US before importation to Canada between 19 February 2004 and 18 June 2004. Pursuant to section 55 of the…

9 December 2005 PC 2005-2065 Temporary Importation Remission Order, No. 1 (Customs Tariff) This Order remits money that represents a portion of the customs duties and excise taxes paid or payable on certain goods not available from domestic sources that were required temporarily in Canada prior to 1…