Trade News

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…

15 June 2000 EDI Test Environment The following message is from the Electronic Commerce Unit at the CCRA. Members are advised that the EDI TEST environment will not be available from Friday, June 23, 2000 to Friday, June 30, 2000. This outage will affect all EDI TEST environments (CADEX, CUSDEC…

14 June 2000 Request for Interim Review No.: RD-99-002 In the matter of a request for an interim review of the finding made by the Canadian International Trade Tribunal on March 21, 1997, in Inquiry No. NQ-96-002 concerning fresh garlic originating in or exported from the People's Republic of China…

14 June 2000 Appeal No. AP-99-073 This appeal followed a decision of the Federal Court of Appeal which referred the matter back to the Tribunal for re-hearing. The goods in issue are rubber crawler tracks. They are composed of vulcanized rubber containing a cord and canvas, as well as steel…

12 June 2000 Appeal AP-98-092 The goods in issue are photocopier toner cartridges which are temporarily attached to photocopies in order to transfer toner contained in the cartridge into the toner hopper of photocopiers. The toner functions in the photocopying process to make the image being…

12 June 2000 D Memorandum D17-1-5 Updated The following D memorandum has been updated: D17-1-5 Importing Commercial Goods This Memorandum has been completely revised to incorporate and replace the following memoranda: D1-7-2 Acceptance of Uncertified Cheques D17-1-4 Interim Accounting (Sight…

9 June 2000 Updates to the Sublocation List 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: [email protected] Division Port Sub-Office Warehouse Name #1-1 Atlantic 0912…

8 June 2000 D Memoranda D-328, D-329 and D-330 Now Available The following D memoranda are available: D-328 Certain Flat Hot-Rolled Carbon and Alloy Steel Sheet Products D-329 Faced Rigid Cellular Polyurethane-Modified Thermal Insulation Board Originating in or Exported from the United States of…

8 June 2000 Canada Endorses APEC Initiative for Developing Countries On 7 June, the Honourable Pierre Pettigrew, PC, MP, Minister for International Trade, joined trade ministers from the Asia-Pacific region in a renewed call for the launch of a broader round of WTO negotiations. The call came at the…

8 June 2000 EDI Outage Scheduled for 11 June 2000 The following is a message from the Electronic Commerce Unit at the CCRA. EDI will not be available on Sunday, 11 June 2000 from 03:00 to 11:00 ET. This will impact all EDI applications, including ER, RNS, CUSDEC, marine and rail cargo. No EDI…

7 June 2000 ISO 9001:2000 Transition and What it Means The following information was provided by one of our associate members, Orio QM Consultants, and we thank them for their input. Orio QM Consultants can be contacted via their web site, at http://www.orio.com. Why revise the ISO 9000 family of…

7 June 2000 PC 2000-797 PC 2000-797 is the Stranded Steel Wire Remission Order. 1. Subject to section 2, remission is hereby granted of the customs duties paid or payable under the Customs Tariff in respect of non-alloy steel stranded wire, having a diameter of 5 mm or less, of subheading No. 7312…