Trade News

11 July 2000 Further Information on Closure of Midcontinent Truck Terminal Following the message sent on 7 July 2000 to members concerning the closing of the Midcontinent Truck Terminal on 31 March 2001, some further information is now available. The CCRA will advise stakeholders of any staffing…

11 July 2000 Statistics for Year 1 CSCB Qualification Course Results The CSCB has had an opportunity to review the Year I CSCB Qualification Course final examination results and is pleased to provide our members with the following statistics: Number of students who wrote the final examination: 332…

10 July 2000 D14-1-9 Updated The following D memorandum has been updated: D14-1-9 Information Pertaining to the Acceptance, Enforcement, and Renewal of Undertakings in Dumping and Subsidy Investigations This memorandum is being revised to reflect changes to the SIMA regarding the administration of…

10 July 2000 Minister of International Trade to Advance Canadian Trade Interests in South America International Trade Minister Pierre Pettigrew will visit Chile, Argentina, Uruguay and Colombia this month to advance Canadian business interests and forge stronger bilateral trade ties. This will also…

10 July 2000 US Customs Loses Country-of-Origin Challenge The following article is excerpted from "The Journal of Commerce" issue of 6 July 2000. U.S. Customs cannot make a food manufacturer label its product as "Made in Canada" just because a small percentage of the ingredients are from Canada, a…

7 July 2000 Scheduled EDI Outage on 9 July 2000 The following message is from the Electronic Commerce Unit at the CCRA. Members are advised that EDI will not be available Sunday, July 9, 2000 from 3:00 a.m. to 13:00 p.m. ET. This will impact all EDI applications including CADEX; ER; RNS; CUSDEC…

7 July 2000 Sublocation Update The following are the updates to the sublocation list. Members requiring the complete sublocation document, please contact Jill Burgess at (613) 941-0335 or via email: mailto:[email protected]. Division Port Sub-Office Warehouse #1-1 Atlantic 0009 4310…

7 July 2000 Midcontinent Truck Terminal The following announcement is from Mr. H.G. Brinkmann, President and CEO of Midcontinent Truck Terminal in Toronto. Midcontinent Truck Terminal, in its current format, is no longer viable as a "B" licence sufferance warehouse. As a result, Midcontinent will…

7 July 2000 NQ-2000-003 Notice was received by the Secretary of the Canadian International Trade Tribunal (the Tribunal) on July 5, 2000, from the Acting Director General of the Anti-dumping and Countervailing Directorate at the Canada Customs and Revenue Agency, stating that a preliminary…

7 July 2000 AP-99-029 and AP-99-046 These are appeals 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). The issue in these appeals is whether the telephones imported by the appellant are…

6 July 2000 D Memoranda Revised The following D memoranda have been revised: D14-1-1 Special Import Measures Regulations (http://www.ccra-adrc.gc.ca/E/pub/cm/d1411eq/d1411-e.pdf) D15-2-30 Certain Iodinated Contrast Media (http://www.ccra- adrc.gc.ca/E/pub/cm/d15230eq/README.html) D17-1-21…

5 July 2000 Second IPPS System Failure The IPPS experienced a second power failure during the evening of 4 July and will therefore be down until at least the morning of 5 July.

5 July 2000 CTR 3571 — Johns Manville International Inc. v. D/MNR Headnote from an application for judicial review of a decision in which an official of Revenue Canada refused to disclose to the appellant certain information about the assessment of anti-dumping duty imposed on goods exported by the…

5 July 2000 IPPS System Restored The IPPS system has been restored to fully operational status.

5 July 2000 Finalists for 2000 Canada Export Awards Announced On 4 July the Honourable Pierre Pettigrew, Minister for International Trade, announced the 25 finalists competing for the Canada Export Awards. Up to ten winners will be announced in Halifax at the fifth annual convention of the Alliance…

5 July 2000 Preliminary Determination on Bingo Paper The Canada Customs and Revenue Agency announced today [5 July] that provisional duties will be imposed on bingo paper, in finished or unfinished form, originating in or exported from the United States of America and produced by or on behalf of…

5 July 2000 D Memorandum D10-18-7 Updated The following D memorandum has been updated: D10-18-7 Tariff Rate Quota on Cut Roses from Israel or Another CIFTA Beneficiary This memorandum provides an overview of the tariff rate quota on cut roses (and rose buds) from Israel or another Canada-Israel Free…

5 July 2000 Newly Elected Mexican President Wants to Expand Relationship with Canada The following is based on an article in the 5 July 2000 edition of the "National Post". The new President-Elect of Mexico, Mr. Vicente Fox Quesada, announced on 4 July that he will promote increased trade, open…

5 July 2000 Appeal No. AP-99-083 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 whether certain drill…