Trade News

6 October 2000 US, Canada prepare high-tech border-crossing program The following article is excerpted from "The Journal of Commerce" edition of 5 October 2000. A new border-pass system that will allow Americans and Canadians to zip through their respective customs points without inspection will…

6 October 2000 An Evening to Remember! As part of the Annual Conference, the CSCB is proud to present Becket Players - Way Off Broadway Cabaret 2000 on Friday November 17, 2000. Please join us for a scrumptious buffet dinner, spectacular show, and dancing with a live band. You will be treated to a…

6 October 2000 Request for Removal of Duties on Various Glass Fibre Reinforcement Materials The Department of Finance has received a request for the removal of the customs duties on various glass fibre reinforcement materials used by the Canadian fibreglass reinforced plastics/composites industry in…

4 October 2000 EICS Participant Requirement Document (Draft 2) Now Available The English version of Draft 2 of the Participant Requirement Document (PRD) for the Export Import Control System (EICS) is now available on the DFAIT web site, at the following address: http://www.dfait-maeci.gc.ca/~eicb…

4 October 2000 Collection of Saskatchewan Provincial Sales Tax Non-Commercial Importations The Canada Customs and Revenue Agency (CCRA) and the province of Saskatchewan have reached an agreement whereby CCRA will collect the Saskatchewan Provincial Sales Tax (PST) of 6% on non-commercial…

4 October 2000 Public Interest Investigation No.: PB-2000-002 IN THE MATTER OF representations as to whether the imposition, in whole or in part, of anti-dumping duties on imports of certain refrigerators, dishwashers and dryers originating in or exported from the United States of America and…

3 October 2000 Inquiry No. NQ-2000-003 NOTICE OF SUSPENSION OF INQUIRY On September 27, 2000, the Canadian International Trade Tribunal (the Tribunal) received notice from the Commissioner of the Canada Customs and Revenue Agency (the Commissioner) that, pursuant to subsection 49(1) of the Special…

3 October 2000 Appeal No. AP-99-014 This is an appeal under section 67 of the Customs Act from decisions of the Deputy Minister of National Revenue (now the Commissioner of the Canada Customs and Revenue Agency) made under section 63 of the Customs Act. The issue in this appeal is the proper value…

3 October 2000 D Memorandum D2-5-3 Updated The following D memorandum has been revised: D2-5-3 Travellers Requiring Mobility Assistance at Canadian International Airports This memorandum has been updated to revise the terminology and to reflect the organizational change resulting from the creation…

3 October 2000 Customs Notice N-349 The following Customs Notice has been issued: N-349 Amendment to Customs Procedures Concerning the New Category of Feeder Cattle from the United States This Notice refers to Customs Notice N-289 (10 October 1999), and is based on legislation passed on 22 October…

3 October 2000 Entrelec Inc v D/MNR, CTR 3612 At issue was whether the Canadian International Trade Tribunal erred in its interpretation of the words "for use in" found in Code 2101 of Schedule II of the Customs Tariff. The Tribunal had to determine whether the appellant's goods qualified for the…

3 October 2000 Request for Textile Relief No. TR-2000-002 The CITT has given notice that it is satisfied that the request received from Majestic Industries (Canada) Ltd. (the requester) of Montréal, Québec is properly documented. The request is for the removal, for an indeterminate period of time…

3 October 2000 IBM petitions Supreme Court over HMT refunds The following article is excerpted from "The Journal of Commerce" issue of 2 October 2000. Lawyers for IBM Corp. have petitioned the Supreme Court to review a decision that denies exporters any interest on refunds of an unconstitutionally…

3 October 2000 Thanksgiving Holiday Arrangements The following message is from the electronic commerce unit of the CCRA. The system operations and accounting procedures for Thanksgiving, 9 October 2000, will be as follow: CADEX reports will run the evenings of Friday, 6 October and Tuesday, 10…

3 October 2000 Import Requirements for Bamboo Poles and Stakes The following information comes from Mr. Greg Stubbings, National Manager, Forestry Section of the CFIA. In the past two years, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) and the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) of the…

3 October 2000 Are You Interested in Education? If you are interested in helping out students taking the CSCB Qualification Course, and you're in the Montréal area, we'd like to hear from you! We would like to offer study groups to first and second-year students, and need two CSCB Qualification…

To be the supplier of choice - that is the goal of every business. Let us provide you with the information that you need to keep your clients onside. Join us for three days of information sessions about current government and private sector initiatives that influence how you define and deliver your…

2 October 2000 Working to Avert a Trucking Crisis During the past two weeks several groups representing the trucking industry, including the National Truckers' Association and the Ontario Trucking Association, have worked to deal with the fuel price issue in order to avoid threatened protests…

2 October 2000 New Category in CSCB Reference System Members may wish to access the following articles, written by CSCB President Carol West for "Logistics Quarterly" over the past year and a half: "Communication and Value in a Network Economy", April 1999 (http://www.cscb.ca/articles/network.htm)…

2 October 2000 Request for Removal of Duties from Bricks, Blocks, Tiles and Shapes The Department of Finance has received a request for the removal of Customs duties on a wide range of bricks, blocks, tiles and shapes used to line refractory equipment employed in the production of steel. The…