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23 June 2000 Customs Notice N-335 Order Amending the Customs Tariff (Extension of General Preferential Tariff to the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia) Effective 4 May 2000, the benefits of the GPT are accorded to the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina…

23 June 2000 Customs Notice N-334 The following Customs Notice has been issued: N-334 Customs Office — Change of Address This Notice advises that effective 13 March 2000, the address for the customs office at Penticto Airport has been changed to: Canada Customs and Revenue Agency 111-3000 Airport…

23 June 2000 Customs agreement paves way for electronic bill of lading between US, Mexico The following article is excerpted from "The Journal of Commerce" edition of 23 June 2000. The long-promised uniform electronic bill of lading between the United States and Mexico is one step closer following…

22 June 2000 Arrangements for 1 July 2000 The following message is from the Electronic Commerce Unit at the CCRA. The electronic commerce unit will be closed on the statutory holiday on Monday, 3 July 2000. B3 entries processed and accepted on both Monday, 3 July and Tuesday, 4 July will appear on…

22 June 2000 Customs Notice N-333 The following Customs Notice has been issued: N-333 Time Frames for Submission of Pre-Arrival Review System (PARS) Release Requests This Notice advises all parties involved in importing commercial shipments to Canada of changes in customs procedures. The reference…

22 June 2000 CSCB Qualification Course — First Year Examination Timeline We are pleased to provide members with a summary of the process involved in the marking of our examinations and the subsequent delivery of results. What follows is the timeline for the May 27th CSCB Qualification Course Year I…

22 June 2000 Canada-EU Summit The Minister for International Trade, the Honourable Pierre Pettigrew, will attend the Canada- European Union (EU) summit in Portugal on 25 and 26 June. Among the international issues to be discussed are the expansion of the $140 billion trade and investment…

20 June 2000 The following is information concerning the civic holiday in Quebec on Monday, June 26, 2000. For all clients, overnight reports will run the evening of Friday, June 23, 2000 and Monday, June 26, 2000 as usual. Daily notices/statements covering B3 entry data from Friday, June 23, 2000…

19 June 2000 Notice of Commencement of Public Interest Investigation On May 1, 2000, the Canadian International Trade Tribunal (the Tribunal), under subsection 43(1) of the Special Import Measures Act (SIMA), found that the dumping in Canada of certain iodinated contrast media used for adiographic…

19 June 2000 Minutes of Meeting between CCRA and Customs Brokers in Ontario Region The following minutes are from the meeting held in Windsor, Ontario on 14 June 2000 between the CCRA and customs brokers. This information is also available to members only on the CSCB Ontario Region web page. CCRA -…

19 June 2000 EDI Test Update The following message is from the CCRA Electronic Commerce Unit. Members are advised that the EDI test environment will not be available from Thursday, 22 June 2000 to Friday, 30 June 2000 due to the migration of the July release to the test environment. This outage will…

16 June 2000 Extension of SIMA Investigation into Bingo Paper On 15 June the CCRA announced the extension of the investigation regarding the alleged injurious dumping into Canada of bingo paper, in finished or unfinished form, originating in or exported from the United States and produced by or on…

16 June 2000 Voluntary Disclosures Program Announced On 12 June 2000 the new Voluntary Disclosures Program (VDP) was announced. CSCB President Carol West participated in the CCRA Appeals Advisory Committee that worked on this initiative. Many of the suggestions received from the private sector have…

16 June 2000 Customs Notices N-331 and N-332 The following Customs Notices have been issued: N-331 Women's Leather and Non-leather Boots and Shoes, Originating in or Exported from the People's Republic of China N-332 Voluntary Disclosures Program Notice 331 advises that on 1 May 2000, the CITT…

16 June 2000 Extension Date for New Entrants Applications, NAFTA Non-Wool Apparel Tariff Preference Level Quota The textiles and clothing section has extended the closing date for new entrants to apply for Non- wool Apparel TPL Quota from May 31, 2000 to July 31, 2000. All requests must be forwarded…

16 June 2000 D Memorandum D10-18-9 The following D memorandum has been updated: D10-18-9 Tariff Rate quotas on Certain Agricultural Products that are Entitled to the Benefit of the Mexico Tariff This Memorandum provides information regarding the details of the Mexico Fruit and Vegetable Aggregate…

15 June 2000 Minutes of the CSCB Prairie Region Annual General Meeting The minutes of the Prairie Region annual general meeting follow, and are available to members on the Prairie Region page of the CSCB web site, at http://www.cscb.ca. Canadian Society of Customs Brokers Prairie Region Minutes of…

15 June 2000 D Memorandum D11-5-2 Revised The following D memorandum has been revised: D11-5-2 NAFTA Rules of Origin Regulations Amendments to Schedule I This Memorandum contains the unofficial consolidation of Schedule I to the NAFTA Rules of Origin Regulations. This consolidation provides the…

15 June 2000 Notice to Importers No. 601: Item 194 - Frozen Pork from the European Union 1.1 This Notice replaces Notice to Importers No. 590 and refers to item 194 of the Import Control List. This item covers frozen meat of pork, falling under tariff item No. 0203.29.00 of the Customs Tariff. 1.2…