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8 September 2005 EICS Bulletin regarding EICS Database Maintenance EICS database maintenance will be performed on the system TONIGHT . EICS will be unavailable from 21:00 (9pm) EST, Thursday 8 September, until 04:00 EST Friday 9 September 2005.

8 September 2005 Ports start to rebound from Katrina The following article is extracted from the 8 September 2005 edition of “The Journal of Commerce”. Ports along the central Gulf of Mexico are starting to recover from Hurricane Katrina. The reopening of the Mississippi River, coupled with the…

8 September 2005 Empty Repositioning Management Process The following message is from CN’s Customer Support Centre. Over the couple of months, CN has announced multiple enhancements to the MT Booking process, empty inventory management and Domestic repositioning processes. In response to many…

8 September 2005 Canada–Korea Free Trade Agreement (FTA) - Market Access Negotiations for Agricultural and Non-Agricultural Goods Closing date: October 7, 2005 It is anticipated that Canada and Korea will exchange initial tariff offers for agricultural and non-agricultural goods in early November…

8 September 2005 PC 2005-1467, Regulations Amending the Firearms Marking Regulations PC 2005-1467 is the “Regulations Amending the Firearms Marking Regulations”. Amendment 1. Section 6 of the Firearms Marking Regulations is replaced by the following: 6. These Regulations come into force on December…

8 September 2005 PC 2005-1464 Order Amending the Import Control List PC 2004-1464 is the Order Amending the Import Control List. 1. Items 80 and 81 of the Import Control List are replaced by the following: 80. Carbon steel products including semi-finished products (ingots, blooms, billets, slabs and…

8 September 2005 Port of Vancouver sees increase in container traffic The following article is excerpted from the 7 September 2005 edition of “Canadian Transportation & Logistics”. Despite being crippled by a container trucker strike for a significant part of the summer, the Port of Vancouver has…

8 September 2005 Border guards vital in global village The following article is extracted from the “Montreal Gazette” edition of 7 September 2005. In the so-called globalized world without borders, border guards were supposed to be a thing of the past. But just as the paperless society has left us…

7 September 2005 CN will reopen it reservations system for the Maersk Perth September 7th The following message is from CN’s Customer Support Centre. We have been advised by Cast Terminals that they will begin to accept traffic for the Maersk Perth at Cast, effective Thuursday, September 8, 2005. CN…

7 September 2005 Retailers Say Europe Gave Incentives to Win China Deal The following article is excerpted from the 7 September 2005 edition of “The New York Times”. Leading European retailers accused the European Union on Tuesday of granting some textile-producing nations special incentives to win…

7 September 2005 Report: Katrina could slow other ports The following article is extracted from the 6 September 2005 edition of “The Journal of Commerce”. The devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans could lead to slowdowns in rail operations in moving retail goods out of other ports…

7 September 2005 Customs shifts sites for Gulf port transactions The following article is from the 6 September 2005 edition of “The Journal of Commerce”. Customs and Border Protection announced that the Port of Memphis has been designated to handle all import transactions for Gulf ports that closed…

7 September 2005 Certain Hot-Rolled Steel Plate On 7 September 2005 the CBSA initiated two re-investigations of normal values and export prices in respect of certain hot-rolled carbon steel plate and high-strength low-alloy plate pursuant to the SIMA. The re-investigations relate to: (a) certain hot…

7 September 2005 USD Exchange Rate The following message is from the Electronic Commerce Unit at the CBSA. The following is to advise that the exchange rate for the US Dollar for September 3 to 6, 2005 (inclusive) was amended in our system after the CADEX exchange report was issued. The correct rate…

7 September 2005 ITEM 80 - Carbon Steel, and ITEM 81 - Specialty Steel Notice to Importers Serial No. 683 Date: August 31, 2005 1.0 Purpose 1.1 The purpose of this Notice is: To inform importers that the steel import monitoring programme has been extended to August 31, 2008. 1.2 This Notice extends…

6 September 2005 Hurricane Update from CN The following update from CN was sent on late afternoon, 2 September 2005. CN's current embargo list remains unchanged. In cases where the final destination station does not appear on any embargo list, CN continues to accept billing for traffic routed…

6 September 2005 Customs announces trade symposium The following article is excerpted from the 2 September 2005 edition of “The Journal of Commerce”. [US] Customs and Border Protection has announced that its fifth trade symposium will take place November 2-4 … in Washington. The theme will be…

6 September 2005 EU to back China textiles deal in return for new trade barriers The following article is excerpted from the 6 September 2005 edition of "The Times" on-line. Italy and France intend to back Peter Mandelson’s deal to settle the textiles dispute with China today, bringing an end to a…

6 September 2005 Port of New Orleans preparing to reopen The following article is extracted from the 6 September 2005 edition of “The Journal of Commerce”. Officials at the Port of New Orleans … said Hurricane Katrina left its terminals damaged but workable. "The Port of New Orleans' riverfront…