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Please be advised that on September 8, 2024, between the hours of 0001 and 2359 ET, CBSA experienced system issues which resulted in the rejection of all final accounting submissions (e.g. CADEX) by trade chain partners (TCPs) with the following message being sent. XX11DC942290 DATE ON THE A REC…

The CSCB notes that the procedure outlined below follows previous instructions from the CBSA for the F Types where changes have occurred in the Tariff Schedule. All Low Value Shipment (LVS) releases for the period of August 1, 2024 to August 31, 2024 should be consolidated and must be transmitted to…

RE: Planned System Maintenance The Canada Border Services Agency will be conducting scheduled maintenance, affecting multiple systems within the traveller and commercial streams. As a result, certain features of the CARM system may be temporarily unavailable on the morning of Saturday September 7th…

Under Strengthening Organic Enforcement (SOE), importers of organic products into the United States must be certified under the USDA organic regulations by a USDA-accredited certifier. This includes operations physically located outside of the United States that are acting as the importer of record…

Please note that for maintenance purposes, the following CBSA commercial systems will be unavailable on Saturday, September 7, 2024 from 01:30 (ET) to 09:00 (ET). Commercial systems: Accelerated Commercial Release Operations Support System (ACROSS) eManifest Portal Canadian Export Reporting System…

This is an update to the notice from the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) sent last week regarding a scheduled, planned system outage to conduct maintenance on September 7, 2024. Please note that the systems are back online and normal operations have resumed. The Canada Border Services Agency is…

Registration for the 2024-2025 CCS (Certified Customs Specialist) course is open until October 31, 2024. This interactive online course emphasizes the four major customs processes in Canada: reporting, release, accounting, and payment of duties and taxes. Available in either English or French…

On September 4, 2024 the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA), pursuant to subsection 41(1)(b) of the Special Import Measures Act (SIMA), made a final determination of dumping with respect to wire rod from the People’s Republic of China (China), the Arab Republic of Egypt (Egypt) and the Socialist…

Chapter 03 Chapter 03 was published to add the following OGD extensions : 03.01.99.2064.84 – Cynoscion striatus – TSN 646597 – Striped Weakfish (live) 03.02.72.2064 – Taxonomic names starting with Cy 03.02.72.2064.84 – Cynoscion striatus – TSN 646597 – Striped Weakfish (Fresh or chilled) 03.02.91…

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) has published a list of countries that have been evaluated for the export of animal products and by-products (APABP) to Canada . These are countries from which the APABP Import Section of the Animal Import-Export Division (AIED) of the CFIA will accept…

The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) has today concluded a normal value review (review) to establish the normal values, export prices and amounts of subsidy applicable to upholstered domestic seating (UDS) originating in or exported from the People’s Republic of China (China) by Zhongshan…

Concerning the preliminary determination with respect to the dumping of wire rod originating in or exported from China, Egypt and Vietnam. Decision Ottawa, June 21, 2024 Pursuant to subsection 38(1) of the Special Import Measures Act, the Canada Border Services Agency made a preliminary…

We are only a few weeks away from the CSCB National Conference in Calgary, AB. The deadline for the preferred hotel rate at The Westin Calgary was August 30th, and uptake has been phenomenal. Unfortunately, the hotel has no additional rooms to offer us at this rate. We recognize that some conference…

A) Chapter 02 Chapter 02 was published to modify the registration type list and import conditions of the following HS codes with the end uses “Human consumption”, “In transit through Canada” and “Other end uses” originating from Poland: 02.07 – Meat and edible offal, of the poultry of heading No. 01…

As of September 23, 2024, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) will be making the following service change at the National Centre for Permissions : Charging service fees for processing Ministerial Exemption applications Applications for Ministerial Exemptions for fresh fruit and vegetables…