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With the ongoing recovery of the Canadian economy and expected commercial volume increases, combined with the continued surge in online purchasing, the CBSA continues to prioritize mitigating increased border wait times. COVID-19 Commercial Update to Industry Stakeholders, June 19, 2020 COVID-19…

Start Date / Time: 2020-06-11 / 10 :14 End Date / Time: 2020-06-19 / 16:00 The problem reported below has now been resolved. All systems are functioning normally. Clients Affected: All clients and service providers who transmit trade data using EDI. The CBSA is experiencing a system delay in…

Start Date / Time: 2020-06-11 / 10 :14 UPDATE / TIME: 2020-06-19 / 12 :04 UPDATE: Please be advised the CBSA is continuing to investigate the system problem reported below. Clients Affected: All clients and service providers who transmit trade data using EDI. The CBSA is experiencing a system delay…

End of Payment Deferral Period The related debt due on the Statements of Account (SOA) dated March, April and May 25, 2020, is due on June 30, 2020. The June SOAs will display a due date of 2020-06-30. This will include deferred debt from March, April, and May 2020 as well as the current June debt…

At this time, we would like to take the opportunity to brief you on some of the work underway by the Commercial Program Directorate to support the effort CBSA is undertaking to explore new measures that will assist with Business Economic Recovery Plans. The aim is to assist those in Industry, and…

Le texte français suit le texte anglais. The second Designate Quiz of 2020 is now available. You have until 2 p.m. EDT on Thursday, July 2, 2020 to submit your responses to the CSCB. The quiz must be completed online. The quiz is worth 10 professional development points towards maintenance of the…

This message is being sent to advise trade chain partners (TCPs) that the Canada Border Services Agency will be decommissioning the legacy Other Government Department (OGD) release service options OGD PARS (SO463) and OGD RMD (SO471) on August 17, 2020. As of August 17, 2020, release requests…

EDI/Portal Scheduled Maintenance Outages eManifest Portal Maintenance Start Date / Time End Date / Time Clients Affected 2020-06-20 / 05:00 ET 2020-06-20 / 06:00 ET 2020-06-21 / 05:00 ET 2020-06-21 / 06:00 ET 2020-06-20 / 05:30 ET 2020-06-20 / 07:00 ET 2020-06-21 / 05:30 ET 2020-06-21 / 07:00 ET All…

The new North American trade agreement isn't even in effect yet and the Trump administration is warning Canada and Mexico they might face legal actions under the pact. That threat came from U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer during hours of hearings Wednesday in the U.S. Senate and House of…

Starting June 17, 2020, several chapters from the Terrestrial animal products and by-products Import policy framework come into effect. Some of the old policies being replaced by the new chapters will also be removed from the CFIA website. This change is not expected to impact import conditions or…

The EDI release requests received report for May 2020 is available on the CSCB website ( download). The national EDI percent was 98.59. The following indicates the IID transactions:

Start Date / Time: 2020-06-11 / 10 :14 UPDATE / TIME: 2020-06-17 / 12 :32 UPDATE: Please be advised the CBSA is continuing to investigate the system problem reported below. Clients Affected: All clients and service providers who transmit trade data using EDI. The CBSA is experiencing a system delay…

This message is to inform you that, subsequent to Canada’s April 3, 2020 ratification of the Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement (CUSMA), the Minister of Small Business, Export Promotion and International Trade has established the administration of the Tariff Preferential Levels (TPL) under CUSMA…

Just weeks before Canada’s long-negotiated trade agreement with the U.S. and Mexico is set to take effect, there’s mounting speculation that Washington is preparing to re-introduce tariffs on Canadian aluminum in what’s likely to cause a political uproar with serious economic fallout for the…