Trade News

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…

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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…

29 September 2000 SIMA Index for October 2000 To view the SIMA index for October, please go to the following address: http://www.cscb.ca/listinfo/sima.htm Thank you. http://www.cscb.ca/listinfo/sima.htm

29 September 2000 Changes to the Table of Interest Rates, Appendix to D17-1-19 The updated Table of Interest Rates and Monthly Interest Rates is available on the Revenue Canada web site, at the following address: http://207.6.23.164/news/doce.cfm?id=4175 http://207.6.23.164/news/doce.cfm?id=4175

29 September 2000 Memorandum D15-1-50 The following D memorandum has been updated: D15-1-50 Carbon Steel Welded Pipe (Republic of Korea) The Memorandum refers to the application of anti-dumping duty, pursuant to section 3 of the SIMA, to importations of certain carbon steel welded pipe, originating…

29 September 2000 AP-99-063 This is an appeal under section 67 of the Customs Act from two decisions of the Deputy Minister of National Revenue (now the Commissioner of the Canada Customs and Revenue Agency) on July 8, 1999, pursuant to section 63 of the Customs Act. The issue in this appeal is…

28 September 2000 PC 2000-1495 PC 2000-1495 is the Regulations Amending the United Nations Sierra Leone Regulations. These regulations implement Resolution 1306 (2000) adopted by the United Nations Security Council on 5 July 2000. Resolution 1306 obliges all member states of the UN to prohibit the…

27 September 2000 Memorandum D15-1-84 The following D memorandum has been released: D15-1-84 Women's Leather and Non-Leather Boots This Memorandum refers to the application of anti-dumping duty to importations of women's leather and non-leather boots, originating in or exported from the People's…

27 September 2000 Non-Automated Ports in British Columbia As of 25 September, the CCRA advises that the ports of Osoyoos, BC (819); Victoria, BC (811); and Kingsgate, BC (818) will be classified as not automated, and the K115 release information must be transmitted on the CADEX B3.

27 September 2000 Suspension of Investigation into Bingo Paper On 27 September the CCRA announced that it has accepted a price undertaking and has suspended the dumping investigation of bingo paper, in finished or unfinished form, originating in or exported from the USA and produced by or on behalf…

27 September 2000 Certain Stainless Steel Round Bar The CCRA announced on 27 September the final determination of dumping regarding certain stainless steel round bar, originating in or exported from Brazil, and of subsidizing with respect to the same goods originating in or exported from Brazil and…