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21 March 2001 Preliminary Injury Inquiry No.: PI-2000-006 The Dumping of Certain Flot Hot-rolled Carbon and Alloy Steel Sheet and Strip originating in or Exported from Brazil, Bulgaria, The People's Republic of China, Chinese Taipei, India, The Republic of Korea, The Former Yugoslav Republic of…

21 March 2001 PC 2001-376 PC 2001-376 is the Regulations Amending Certain Regulations Made Under the Customs Act (Miscellaneous Program). These Regulations make technical changes to the NAFTA Rules of Origin Regulations, the Free Trade Agreement Advance Rulings Regulations, and the CCFTA Rules of…

20 March 2001 D Memoranda D13-2-5 and D13-2-1 The following D memoranda are available on the CCRA web site: D13-2-5 Customs Valuation: Effects of the Goods and Services Tax D13-2-1 Responsibility of Importers and/or Authorized Agents with Respect to Valuation Memorandum D13-2-5 provides information…

20 March 2001 CR 3676, Utex Corporation v D/MNR The following is a decision from the Federal Court of Appeal on 7 March 2001, A-28-00. At issue was whether commissions paid by the appellant to its agent should be added to the price paid or payable for imported garments pursuant to subparagraph 48(5)…

20 March 2001 Notice to Importers, Serial Number 615 Item 134 -- Ice Cream and Ice Cream Novelties 1.0 Coverage 1.1 This Notice cancels and replaces Notice to Importers No. 599 of March 3, 2000. It refers to Item 134 of the Import Control List (ICL), i.e. products falling under tariff item No. 2105…

19 March 2001 Minister of Finance Tables Notice of Ways and Means Motion amending the Income Tax Act On 16 March 2001 the Department of Finance tabled a detailed Ways and Means Motion to amend the Income Tax Act to implement income tax measures outlined in the previous session of Parliament…

16 March 2001 EDI Outage, 18 March 2001 The following message is from the Electronic Commerce Unit at the CCRA. Members are advised that EDI will not be available Sunday March 18, 2001 from 3:00 am to 6:00 am ET. This will impact all EDI applications including ER, RNS, CADEX, CUSDEC, Marine and Rail…

16 March 2001 Preliminary Injury Inquiry No.: PI-2000-007 Notice was received by the Secretary of the Canadian International Trade Tribunal (the Tribunal) on March 12, 2001, from the Acting Director General of the Anti-dumping and Countervailing Directorate at the Canada Customs and Revenue Agency…

16 March 2001 Tariff Amendment Package T2001-2 The following information is from Mr. Ron Gerold, Manager, Duty Deferral Unit at the CCRA. Members are advised that Tariff Amendment package T2001-2 has been completed and is now at the printers. (Members were notified on xx March that the amendment…

16 March 2001 This report is also available to members only on the BC Region page of the CSCB web site, at http://www.cscb.ca. BC REGION Education Report 15 March, 2001 Michelle Criger of the National Office continues to coordinate the CSCB Qualification Course from coast to coast. Revised national…

15 March 2001 Sub-Location Code Correction The following correction is from the Electronic Commerce Unit at the CCRA. The following sub-location code has been corrected: 0396 4433 Cara Operations Limited 1185-1 Rodolphe-Page, Dorval QC H4Y 1H1

15 March 2001 Textile Requests Not Yet Initiated The following are textile requests not yet initiated by the CITT. Request Number: TR-2000-006 Date of Request: 01/01/29 Name/Address of Requester: Doubletex Inc., Montreal, QC Textile Input and End Use: Woven fabrics of polyester-cotton or cotton…

15 March 2001 Form K25, Application for Search, Reproduction, and Certification of Documents The above-mentioned form is available from the CCRA web site, at the following address: http://207.61.56.166/news/doce.cfm?id=4341 http://207.61.56.166/news/doce.cfm?id=4341

15 March 2001 Maintenance Outage re CFIA-EDI System The following message is from the Electronic Commerce Unit at the CCRA. For maintenance purposes the CFIA-EDI system, which is the system that interfaces with ACROSS for CFIA requests, will not be available from Sunday March 18, 2001 at 7:00 am…

14 March 2001 Canada Tightens Import Controls as Foot and Mouth Disease Spreads The following is a news release from the CFIA. On 13 March 2001 the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) responded to the confirmation of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) on continental Europe and in Argentina by…

13 March 2001 Customs Notices N-374 and N-375 The following Customs Notices are available on the CCRA web site: N-374 Certain Concrete Reinforcing Bar N-375 Priority Registration Service at the Winnipeg Tax Centre N-374 advises that, on 5 February 2001, the CCRA concluded its review of the normal…

12 March 2001 D Memorandum D13-1-2 The following D memorandum is available on the CCRA web site: D13-1-2 Direct Shipment of Goods Regulations This memorandum contains the regulations for determining the place of direct shipment of goods exported to Canada when the goods pass in transit through…