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The Single Window Initiative (SWI) is a Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) led initiative, comprising ten Participating Government Departments and Agencies (PGA), encompassing 39 programs, working together to provide Trade Chain Partners (TCP) with a single window solution. The PGAs involved are…

Decision and reasons issued Tuesday, September 16, 2014 IN THE MATTER OF an appeal heard on June 19, 2014, pursuant to section 67 of the Customs Act, R.S.C., 1985, c. 1 (2nd Supp.); AND IN THE MATTER OF decisions of the President of the Canada Border Services Agency, dated September 6, 2013, with…

Decision and reasons issued Thursday, September 18, 2014 IN THE MATTER OF an appeal heard on June 12, 2014, pursuant to subsection 67(1) of the Customs Act, R.S.C., 1985, c. 1 (2nd Supp.); AND IN THE MATTER OF a decision of the President of the Canada Border Services Agency, dated September 23, 2013…

Please note that as part of the Canada Border Services Agency's (CBSA) ongoing efforts to improve client service, a maintenance window of the production database is scheduled for Sunday October 19, 2014 from 04:30 to 06:00 and from 07:00 to 08:30 (EST). The CFIA Electronic Data Interchange (EDI)…

For system maintenance purposes, all EDI applications will be unavailable on Sunday October 19, 2014 from 04:30 to 06:00 (ET) AND from 07:00 to 08:30 (ET). This includes: all incoming data or outbound messages such as acknowledgements, reject messages and notices, e.g. RNS, Completeness Notices. We…

The following has been updated and is available on the CBSA website: Memorandum D11-4-30 - Uniform Regulations – Chapter Five of the Canada-Honduras Free Trade Agreement (CHFTA) http://www.cbsa-asfc.gc.ca/publications/dm-md/d11/d11-4-30-eng.html This memorandum is issued to publish the Memorandum of…

1. Tariff item No. 9993.00.00 provides customs duty relief for most goods which are temporarily imported into Canada for a variety of uses and which meet the conditions specified in the legislation. Vessels may only be imported under tariff item No. 9993.00.00 when they are imported for specific…

The following publication has been updated and is available on the CBSA website: E650 - Notice of Penalty Assessment http://www.cbsa-asfc.gc.ca/publications/forms-formulaires/e650-eng.html

Canada’s Transport Minister, the Honourable Lisa Raitt, and B.C. Transportation and Infrastructure Minister the Honourable Todd Stone today issued the following joint statement to unveil a new model for the container trucking industry serving Port Metro Vancouver and the Lower Mainland. “Port Metro…

Natural Resources Canada has released the Autumn 2014 - ENERGY STAR Newsletter http://www.nrcan.gc.ca/node/16643 Subscribers may be interested in the article entitled “Finding energy performance data for split system heat pumps or ACs.

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) would like your feedback on its Draft Control, Compliance and Enforcement Framework. This document describes the CFIA's vision and approach for facilitating and verifying compliance, preventing non-compliance, controlling risk and responding to non…

As the entity responsible for issuing cargo control numbers (CCNs) to clients, it is important to ensure you are not issuing duplicate CCNs. When a duplicate CCN is issued, this causes the customs broker to receive a reject message on their release transaction and costs all groups time and money to…

Registration is open for the 2014-15 Certified Customs Specialist (CCS) course. The online CCS course offers flexible and interactive professional training for adult learners. Available in both English and French, the CCS course covers the entire CCS curriculum, including web-based tests and…

The CSCB has obtained clarification from both CFIA and CBSA on how to classify and account for goods that are Canadian goods returning to Canada, as well as being regulated by CFIA. FROM CFIA Canadian Goods returning to Canada, regulated and classified between chapter 1 and 97 AIRS have an end use…

Please note changes to the list of HS codes subject to the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) requirements have been made. These changes were effective in the ACROSS system, Friday, October 10, 2014, and the CBSA website will be updated accordingly. Please see attachment. If you have questions…

The following is to advise you of an update to section 4.4 Import product Notification of the document titled Canadian Regulatory Requirements for Quality Management Program Import Licence Holders (QMPI Importers) available on our website at http://www.inspection.gc.ca/eng/1352224484296…

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) National Import Service Centre (NISC) will continue to offer support to clients requiring technical help and immediate assistance related to import release requests on the Thanksgiving Day Statutory Holiday on Monday, October 13, 2014. If you require such…