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The preliminary program for the 2019 CSCB National Conference is now available! Big changes are coming to the world of imports! To help you understand what these changes will mean for your business, day 1 of the conference will be dedicated to CBSA’s CARM (CBSA Assessment and Revenue Management)…

The CBSA is pleased to announce that Trade Chain Partners can now use the SWI IID Regulated Commodities Data Element Matching Criteria to identify commodities regulated by a particular Participating Government Department or Agency (PGA) program. The Regulated Commodities Data Element Matching…

As part of ongoing efforts to improve client service, please be advised that the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) will be performing maintenance on Tuesday July 30th, 2019 from 6:00am until 7:00am (EST). Consequently, the CFIA Digital Document Store Application (DDS) may not be available…

DID YOU KNOW? As a designate, or employee of the CSCB member firm, you have access to discounted home and auto insurance? YUP! You can save by switching to the Navigators (previously McLean Hallmark) Group Home and Auto Plan. To request a quote, call 416 642 4238 or toll free: 1 877 477 7702, or…

The summary of the 17 June 2019 meeting at Port 813 between CSCB Customs Broker members and CBSA is now available on the British Columbia regional page.

Canada and the European Union have agreed on a plan to set up a substitute appeals body for trade disputes between them... They are working around the United States' refusal to allow new appointments to a panel that already exists at the World Trade Organization: the WTO's Appellate Body is down to…

The U.S. House of Representatives began its summer break today leaving the ratification of the new North American trade deal hanging, rekindling angst that a frustrated President Donald Trump will blow up the existing pact. Trade experts in Canada and the U.S. are divided on whether Trump may be…

Message received on July 28, 2019 at 18:32 The messaging problem noted below has now been resolved. All systems are functioning normally. ______________________________________________________ We are currently experiencing an outage for clients that submit Integrated Document Image (IID) and…

Small business optimism took a step back in July, falling 3.7 index points to 57.8 on the Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB)’s Business Barometer®. “This month’s sentiment isn’t as low as it was at the beginning of the year, but it does suggest that the rapid improvements we saw over…

The following was published in Part I of the Canada Gazette on July 20 and 27, 2019. Canadian International Trade Tribunal Appeal Notice No. HA-2019-010 Environment, Dept. of the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999 Notice of intent to amend the Domestic Substances List under subsection 87(3)…

Saturday, July 27th 2019 from 04:00 to 05:00 (ET), clients may experience delays on when submitting the Integrated Import Declaration (IID). Also, Participating Government Agencies (PGA) may experience delays in processing the IID. Please note that during this time, the processing of the Document…

We are pleased to share the preliminary program for the 2019 CSCB National Conference. Big changes are coming to the world of imports! To help you understand what these changes will mean for your business, day 1 of the conference will be dedicated to CBSA’s CARM (CBSA Assessment and Revenue…

CFIA invites you to participate in a workshop either in person or remotely via webex to comment on the following draft International Standards for Phytosanitary Measures (ISPMs) recently distributed for country consultation by the Secretariat of the International Plant Protection Convention (IPPC)…

This message pertains to imports of wheat, barley, wheat products and barley products covered by Items 161 to 191 of the Import Control List (ICL). The purpose of this message is to inform you that the 2019-2020 tariff rate quotas (TRQs) for wheat, barley and their products will become accessible on…

CBSA has now published the list of verification priorities for July. This website also includes a link to an archived list. It may seem unusual that the archived list is dated July 2019, but that list is actually a list of all goods for which the verification is complete and is now simply a record…