Trade News

12 September 2002 Draft D Memorandum, D2-3-1 The following draft D memorandum is available on the CCRA web site: D2-3-1 Returning Persons Exemption Regulations Paragraph 3 on page 7 of the draft has been updated to reflect duty rate changes under subsection 21(2) of the Customs Tariff on tobacco…

12 September 2002 Inquiry No. NQ-2002-002 Notice was received by the Secretary of the Canadian International Trade Tribunal (the Tribunal) on September 10, 2002, from the Director General of the Anti-dumping and Countervailing Directorate at the Canada Customs and Revenue Agency, stating that a…

12 September 2002 Request for Removal of Customs Duty on Generators The Department of Finance is currently reviewing a request for the removal of the Customs duty on generators for use in aero-derivative gas turbine-driven generator sets with a range of 50 to 70 MW. These generators are classified…

10 September 2002 Provisional Duties on Certain Waterproof Footwear The Canada Customs and Revenue Agency (CCRA) announced on 9 September that it will assess provisional duties on imports of certain waterproof footwear, including waterproof footwear bottoms constructed wholly or in part of rubber or…

10 September 2002 Unplanned ACROSS Outages CSCB President Carol West received correspondence from Rachelle May, Acting Director, Systems Operations Division of the CCRA regarding recent changes to the schedule of outages and the cause of recent unplanned ACROSS outages. 1. 27 July 2002 In order to…

9 September 2002 Minutes of 13 May 2002 CCRA-Customs Brokers Meeting in Calgary The following minutes are also available in the members-only Prairie Region web page, in http://www.cscb.ca. Log in as a member, then choose “CSCB Regions”, and finally “Prairie” to reach this page. Customs/Brokers…

9 September 2002 AMPS Countdown Program in Montréal on 24 September 2002 Members in Québec who are interested in attending the AMPS Countdown! presentation given jointly by the Canadian Association of Importers and Exporters and the CSCB in Montréal on 24 September can apply using the registration…

9 September 2002 Customs Notice N-466: Customs Bonded Warehouses -- Regulatory Amendments This notice provides importers, exporters and Customs service providers with information on the amendments to the Customs Bonded Warehouse Regulations which came into effect 21 March 2002. These amendments…

6 September 2002 Form E95 -- Complaint Analysis Information Sheet Form E95, Complaint Analysis Information Sheet, is available on the CCRA web site at the following address: http://www.ccra-adrc.gc.ca/E/pbg/cf/e95/README.html The information on this completed form is collected to maintain records of…

6 September 2002 Temporary procedures Windsor-Detroit, 9 September 2002 The following message is from the Electronic Commerce Unit at the CCRA. Due to scheduled events in the Windsor-Detroit area on Monday, September 9, traffic will probably be delayed at the Ambassador Bridge. For this reason, the…

5 September 2002 Confirmation of Potato Wart in a Second Field in Prince Edward Island The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) has announced the detection of the potato wart disease, caused by a fungus (Synchytrium endobioticum), in a second field on Prince Edward Island. The CFIA took measures…

5 September 2002 Outage affecting Users of CCRA Internet Connection The CSCB has contacted the CCRA regarding a problem the CCRA is experiencing with its internet gateway. There is not currently an estimated time for return to normal operation, but we will continue to monitor the situation.

5 September 2002 CCRA Internet System Repaired The CCRA's internet gateway has been restored to full working order, but is now dealing with the backlog of data caused by it's earlier failure.

5 September 2002 Outage Scheduled on September 8, 2002 The following message is from the Electronic Commerce Unit of the CCRA. Members are asked to note that there is a planned outage this Sunday, September 8, 2002. Therefore, the Customs EDI system will be unavailable from 3:00 am until 1:00 pm…

5 September 2002 Updates to the Sublocation List Updates to the sublocation list are now available from the CCRA. The complete sublocation list is available on the CSCB web site at http://www.cscb.ca/listinfo/completelistsuboff2002-08.xls, and on the CCRA web site at http://www.ccra-adrc.gc.ca…

4 September 2002 Customs Notices N-467 and N-468 The following Customs Notices have been published by the CCRA: N-467 Denatured Alcohol and Specially Denatured Alcohol – Phase 2 of the Commercial Import Sampling Initiative (CISI) N-468 Certain Cold-Rolled Carbon Steel Sheet and Certain Flat Hot…