Trade News

27 June 2000 Decision on NAFTA Chapter 11 Claim Favours Canada On 27 June the NAFTA Tribunal handed down its (unanimous) decision on two articles of NAFTA's investor-state chapter concerning Performance Requirements and Expropriation. The ruling indicates that Canada's implementation of the Canada…

The following messages were sent on 27 June: 1. Canada Customs and Revenue Agency (notices) Customs Notice N-337 2. Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (general) Decision on NAFTA Chapter 11 Claim Favours Canada

26 June 2000 Dispute Resolution Corporation is a New Player The following information is from Mr. Doug Shouldice, Member Services Co-ordinator of the Dispute Resolution Corporation. Member companies of the new DRC (Dispute Resolution Corporation) no longer require a Canadian Food Inspection Agency…

26 June 2000 New dot-com plans direct links between air shippers and carriers The following article is excerpted from "The Journal of Commerce" edition of 22 June 2000. Joe Fenley is a brave man. Twenty years after founding Gateway Freight Services, which Fenley describes as the first privately held…

26 June 2000 Notice of Reconsideration of Request No. TR-99-003 The CITT gives notice it will reconsider the request by Western Glove Works Ltd. For tariff relief and the recommendation made to the Minister of Finance on 4 February 2000, in Request No. TR-99-003. The recommendation was for the…

26 June 2000 Change of Name for Canadian Importers Association At their annual general meeting earlier this month, the Canadian Importers Association unanimously voted to change its name to the Canadian Association of Importers and Exporters Inc. More than 60 per cent of its membership are both…

23 June 2000 All species of sturgeon, including eggs (commonly known as "CAVIAR") are CITES-listed The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) has listed over 30,000 species of wild animals and plants whose movement from one country to another for…

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…