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Related to the 10,000 flight attendants at Air Canada and Air Canada Rouge that they intend to strike, Air Canada is beginning a phased wind down of their operations, to be completed over the next three days. Booking and acceptance AC Animals AC Horses AC Compassion No new bookings until further…

We will be performing routine network maintenance. As a result, you may experience difficulties accessing online services during this time. Visit System maintenance for more information. Automated Import Reference System (AIRS) Outage: August 17, 2025 from 3 am to 7 am (ET) Contact: If you require…

The U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) in Ottawa has asked the CSCB to invite our members, students and Preferred Business Clients to attend a webinar on the Enforce and Protect Act (EAPA). https://www.cbp.gov/trade/eapa Attendees will hear from CBP’s trade experts on the process of filing an…

Air Canada Cargo has temporarily implemented new acceptance dates for specific commodities: Booking and acceptance AC Animals AC Horses AC Compassion No new bookings until further notice. All specialty cargo products: AC Absolute AC Pharmacair AC Fresh AC Secure AC Expedair AC eCommerce AC DGR No…

The Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), the union for Air Canada's 10,000+ flight attendants, issued a 72-hour strike notice meaning that flight attendants can walk off the job as early as Saturday at 12:58 a.m. ET. In response, Air Canada will begin cancelling flights on Thursday before a…

On Auguste 12, 2025, The Honourable Maninder Sidhu, Minister of International Trade, and the Honourable Heath MacDonald, Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food, issued a statement in response to China’s preliminary anti-dumping duties of 75.8% on canola seed from Canada. The statement conveys Canada…

On August 12, 2025, the Canadian International Trade Tribunal initiated a preliminary injury inquiry into a complaint by EVRAZ Inc. NA Canada, of Regina, Saskatchewan and Welded Tube of Canada Corp., of Concord, Ontario, that they have suffered injury as a result of the dumping of oil country…

Earlier this month the CSCB shared the article 3 facing smuggling-related charges after 44 migrants intercepted in Quebec: CBSA; associated with the three arrests from that incident, the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) arrested a fourth individual at…

The problem reported below has now been resolved. All systems are functioning normally. ______________________________ The CBSA is receiving and processing Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) and eManifest portal inbound data. However, there is a delay in sending outbound messages such as…

Start Date / Time 2025-08-12 11:55 (ET) The CBSA is receiving and processing Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) and eManifest portal inbound data. However, there is a delay in sending outbound messages such as acknowledgements, reject messages and notices (e.g. RNS, completeness notices, etc) through…

Effective Thursday August 14, China announced a preliminary anti-dumping duty on Canadian canola imports with the provisional rate to be set at 75.8%. Canadian canola exports to China totalled $5 billion in 2023, the last full year before the investigation began. China has also launched an anti…

Shortly before tariffs on Chinese goods were set to rise to 54% from 30%, and Chinese tariffs on American exports would return to 34% from 10% the U.S. White House published an Executive Order announcing an extension to the existing tariffs for 90 days. This extension will give both countries time…

The Canadian International Trade Tribunal today determined that there is a reasonable indication that the dumping and subsidizing of thermal paper rolls from China have caused injury to the domestic industry. The CBSA will continue its investigations and, by September 10, 2025, will issue…

The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) initiated an investigation on August 11, 2025, respecting the alleged injurious dumping of oil country tubular goods originating in or exported from the United Mexican States and the Republic of the Philippines, and originating in the Republic of Türkiye and…

The CBSA is initiating an investigation into whether certain oil country tubular goods (OCTG) are being sold in the Canadian market at unfair prices when exported from certain steel producers from Mexico, the Philippines, South Korea, Türkiye, and the United States. The Canadian International Trade…

On Tuesday, August 12, 2025 between 03:00 (ET) and 04:45 (ET), for maintenance purposes, importers and custom brokers who submit Integrated Import Declaration (IID) may receive the following rejects. Error Code Field Description Message Text 0L2 Declaration Party Contact Name Importer Information…

A) Chapter 25 Chapter 25 was published to add the miscellaneous codes “Mixture of fertilizer and/or supplement ingredients” and “Single material” to the following HS code with the end use “For fertilizer or supplement”: 25.17.49.0010 – Basalt. B) Chapter 28 Chapter 28 was published to add the…