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After a week-long NAFTA negotiating round in Washington, the lead political ministers are heading home. They will reconvene around May 7. Canada's Chrystia Freeland and Mexico's Ildefonso Guajardo will leave the U.S. capital, while their American counterpart shifts his focus next week to a highly…

Top-level U.S., Canadian and Mexican negotiators trying to hammer out a quick deal to update NAFTA will take a break until May 7, officials said on Friday, as work to resolve major differences including auto content rules continues. The pause underlined how much work remains to be done on the North…

U.S. President Donald Trump’s threats to scrap the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) will soon be a distant memory, likely to be supplanted by only slight changes to the 24-year-old pact, a Reuters poll of economists suggested. None of the 80 forecasters - most based in Canada, the United…

Canada's lead minister on the North American Free Trade Agreement file is cancelling her plans to attend the NATO summit in Brussels to participate in vital late-game trade talks in Washington D.C. Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland is sending her parliamentary secretary, Omar Alghabra, to…

As a result of the amendments to the Special Import Measures Act and the Special Import Measures Regulations that came into force on April 26, the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) will conduct scope proceedings and anti-circumvention investigations, assess whether certain sales should be…

On April 25, 2018, the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA), pursuant to paragraph 41(1)(a) of the Special Import Measures Act (SIMA), made final determinations of dumping and subsidizing in respect of certain copper pipe fittings from Vietnam. See Appendix 1 for results. The Notice of Final…

Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland and her American counterpart in the NAFTA talks had a "fairly forceful" exchange of views Tuesday over the American side's demand for a sunset clause, a source tells CBC News. A senior source with direct knowledge of the situation said tensions emerged when…

Thailand is set to join the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) this year, a newly formed bloc of 11 Pacific Rim nations excluding the US, says Deputy Prime Minister Somkid Jatusripitak. Speaking after a discussion with high-ranking officials of the Commerce…

A) Chapter 01 was published to modify the import conditions to the following HS code with end uses; “Other end uses”, “ Breeding”, “Temporary stay in Canada”, “Canadian animals returning to Canada”, “Feeding for slaughter”, “Immediate slaughter”, “Display in a zoo”, and “Show or exhibition”…

In support of the proposal to introduce regulatory requirements for battery chargers in Amendment 13 to Canada’s Energy Efficiency Regulations, NRCan has developed an alternate energy efficiency verification scheme for battery chargers. This scheme was developed in consultation with certification…

The Canada Border Services Agency would like to take this opportunity to remind all clients of the terms and conditions for utilizing the emergency after-hours service provided by the Technical Commercial Client Unit (TCCU). The TCCU provides full technical support between the hours of 08h00 and…

This memorandum provides administrative guidelines on the access, use, and disclosure of API and PNR data within the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA), as well as information regarding access and correction requests for this data. This memorandum has been revised to reflect changes made to the…

Clients Affected: All clients who transmit data electronically As standard practice, the CBSA does not send on behalf of other organizations. It would appear that someone other than the CBSA is sending an email containing an attached malicious Word document with Macros and opening this file may pose…

Clients Affected: All clients and service providers who transmit trade data using EDI. As a result of a thorough review of goods regulated by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA), identified in the CFIA’s Automated Import Reference System (AIRS), significant changes have been made to the list…