Trade News

6 August 2004 Staff Shortages Hurt Ag Port Inspections The following article is excerpted from the 6 August 2004 edition of “The New York Times”. The government is detecting fewer agricultural pests that could get across the border in insect-infected foods and should hire more inspectors, an…

6 August 2004 Suspicious package closes Rainbow Bridge The following article is excerpted from the 6 August 2004 edition of “globeandmail.com”. The Rainbow Bridge was closed for about three hours last night after a suspicious package was discovered. Customs officers noticed the shoebox-sized package…

6 August 2004 IMO reports late compliance of ports with ISPS code The following article is excerpted from the 6 August 2004 edition of “American Shipper”. The International Maritime Organization said today that 89.5 percent of more than 9,000 declared port facilities now have their port facility…

6 August 2004 CBP Enforcement of US Trade Act The following notice is from CN’s Customer Support Centre in Winnipeg. This is further to previous communication and conference calls regarding the new requirements of the US Trade Act. US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) will be enforcing full…

5 August 2004 CITT Appeals Hearing Schedule The hearing schedule for appeals is available on the CITT web site, at: http://www.citt-tcce.gc.ca/new/index_e.asp http://www.citt-tcce.gc.ca/new/index_e.asp

5 August 2004 Inquiry No. NQ-2004-001 Certain Stainless Steel Wire IN THE MATTER OF an inquiry, under section 42 of the Special Import Measures Act, respecting: THE DUMPING OF CERTAIN STAINLESS STEEL WIRE ORIGINATING IN OR EXPORTED FROM THE REPUBLIC OF KOREA, SWITZERLAND AND THE UNITED STATES OF…

5 August 2004 Customs Brokers Professional Examination The Customs Brokers Professional Examination will take place on Monday, 29 November 2004. Information about examination sites is found on the CBSA web site, at: http://www.cbsa-asfc.gc.ca/import/brokers/notice-e.html Please note that the CBSA…

5 August 2004 Outage for Scheduled Maintenance on 7 and 8 August 2004 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, August 7, 2004…

5 August 2004 Updates to Sublocation Code List The sublocation list has been updated, and is the following information is available on the CSCB web site: Complete sublocation list: http://www.cscb.ca/listinfo/completesubcodesaug04.xls Expiries from the sublocation list: http://www.cscb.ca/listinfo…

5 August 2004 Ambassador Bridge owners seek 2nd span to ease Ont.-Mich. border congestion The following article is excerpted from the “National Post” on 5 August 2004. The owners of the Ambassador Bridge have asked U.S. and Canadian authorities for permission to build a second, $300 million US ($394…

4 August 2004 CN582 Certain Wood Slats Originating in or Exported from Mexico and People’s Republic of China This Customs Notice advises that on 23 July 2004, the CBSA initiated a review pursuant to section 55 of the SIMA. This review follows the CITT’s findings of material injury issued on 18 June…

4 August 2004 Mixed reactions to WTO deal The following article is excerpted from the 3 August 2004 edition of “The Journal of Commerce”. Despite widespread skepticism from agricultural unions and non-governmental organizations, governments in Europe and Asia expressed cautious optimism today about…

4 August 2004 FAST/NEXUS Presentations in British Columbia and Washington State The CBSA is making presentations on FAST and NEXUS in Blaine, WA and Surrey, BC on 20 and 21 August respectively. A FAST/NEXUS lane will be in place at the Pacific Highway/Blaine border crossing in the autumn. The…

4 August 2004 New Virus – W32/Evaman.c@mm W32.Evaman.C@mm is a mass-mailing worm. It sends HTTP Get requests to the Web site, email.people.yahoo.com, to obtain email addresses. It also retrieves email addresses from Windows Address Book files and from the files with the extensions .adb, .asp, .cfg,…

3 August 2004 Publication of Revised Export Regulations The following message is from the Export Process Division of the CBSA. The text of the Reporting of Exported Goods Regulations are found in the Canada Gazette, part I, of 31 July 2004 at http://canadagazette.gc.ca/partI/2004/20040731/html…

3 August 2004 Autumn Series of Educational Programs in Southern Ontario Details of the autumn program of courses sponsored by the CSCB Ontario Region, the CBSA Southern Ontario Region’s Customs Verification & Services unit, I.E. Canada and AICBA are now available on the CSCB web site, at: http://www…

3 August 2004 Update to CFIA AIRS Web Site Chapters 05, 15, 19, and 21 were published. 05.04.00 - Guts, bladders and stomachs of animals (other than fish), whole and pieces thereof, fresh, chilled, frozen, salted, in brine, dried or smoked/Boyaux, vessies et estomacs d'animaux, entiers ou en…