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With CETA, Canada and the EU face protectionism as strategic partners

This year, Canada and the European Union celebrate over 40 years of relations. We are united by a deep friendship, a common history and culture, common values and ideals. Trade relations between us are also strong, but they are about to become even stronger. The comprehensive economic and trade…

Canada Gazette - Notices and Proposed Regulations

The following was published in Part I of the Canada Gazette on March 18, 2017. Canadian International Trade Tribunal Appeals Notice No. HA-2016-026 Environment, Dept. of the, and Dept. of Health Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999 Notice of intent to develop regulations respecting…
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eManifest Issues Log

The CBSA has provided the CSCB with a summary of issues related to their March 5 system update. The list includes a summary of the issue and additional information, including some work arounds and next steps for CBSA. Members with questions may send them to Michelle Criger at the CSCB, at mcriger…

Changes to AIRS for wooden furniture

Effective April 3rd, 2017, the following OGD extensions will be added to the Automated Import Reference System (AIRS) database in order to streamline import requirements according to Directive D-02-12: 94.03.30.0010 - Articles without bark and made of processed wood materials (material subjected to…

CFIA Scheduled Network Maintenance, 21 March

As part of ongoing efforts to improve client service please be advised that the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) will be performing Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) maintenance on Tuesday March 21, 2017 from 5:00AM until 7:00AM (EST). Consequently, the CFIA response to Integrated Import…

CBSA Message (TCC17-058) - Late Daily Notice (DN) follow up #4

Clients Affected: All importers and brokers March 15 DN’s The first batch of March15 DNs have been transmitted. The second batch will consist of only XML files being transmitted via the Customs Internet Gateway. These will be transmitted early next week. March 16, 17 DN’s The missing DN’s from these…

CBSA Message (TCC17-058) -Late Daily Notice (DN) follow up #3

Clients Affected: All importers and brokers March 15 DN’s The DN’s with statement date of March 15th that are still pending will be transmitted in two batches. The first batch is forthcoming. A follow up message will be sent to communicate the transmission of the second March 15 th batch and the…

Canada's softwood lumber industry braces as U.S. eyes 'new agreement'

Canada’s softwood lumber industry is carefully parsing every word from United States Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer, who said the Canada-U.S. softwood lumber dispute is at the “top of his list” of trade priorities with Canada. Mr. Lighthizer said in his Senate confirmation hearing this week…

Canada trade minister says committed to trilateral NAFTA talks

Canada is committed to keeping the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) as a trilateral accord, Canada's trade minister said on Thursday, in a sign of support for Mexico as it prepares for tough negotiations with the new U.S. administration... U.S. President Donald Trump is preparing to…

Export of beef and pork by-products to China

Please be advised that the export certification requirements for beta agonist free beef certification and the requirements applicable to pork by-product for export to China have been updated. The changes have been made in the Meat e-Certification System. In addition, Chapter 11 of the Meat Hygiene…

CBSA Message (TCC17-058) - Late Daily Notice (DN) follow up #2

Clients Affected: All importers and brokers Late DN follow up #2 Follow up message to late DN’s (Statements dated March 15 to 17th) March 15, 2017 We have identified the DN’s with statement date of March 15 th that have not been sent. Some of these will be sent tonight and the rest of the March 15…

CBSA Message (TCC17-058) -Late Daily Notice (DN) follow up

Clients Affected: All importers and brokers Follow up message to late DN’s (Statements dated March 15 and March 16) The DN’s from March 15 have still not been sent and the DN’s from March 16 th were sent with errors. We are still investigating but it is apparent that a resend of the March 16 th DN’s…

CFIA AIRS Updates, 17 March

A) Chapter 02 was published to change the release recommendation to "Refuse entry" for the following HS codes with the end use "Travellers & Personal use and not for resale or distribution" originating from the states of Alabama and Tennessee. 02.07 - Meat and edible offal, of the poultry of heading…

CBSA Message (TCC17-057) – EDI Scheduled Maintenance Outage, 19 March

Clients Affected: All clients and service providers who transmit trade data using EDI. For maintenance purposes, all EDI applications will be unavailable on Sunday March 19, 2017 from 04:30 to 06:00 ET as well as between 07:00 and 08:30 ET. This includes: all incoming data or outbound messages such…
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ARL Update – News from March 14, 2017 ARL Working Group meeting

A wide variety of topics was discussed at yesterday’s ARL Working Group session. Here is a summary of the main issues. 1. CBSA’s ARL team has designed a new ARL Account Balance Overview Report (not a DN or SOA) for importers who do not hold their own account security. Although the Standard Operating…
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CSCB-CBSA Prairie Regional Meeting Minutes

The minutes from the 25 January 2017 meeting of the CSCB-CBSA Prairie Regional Meeting are now available on the Prairie Region page. To access, please log in to your CSCB account, click on the "Member Services" tab and look under “Regional Activity" or "Recent Updates." Members who have questions…