Trade News

13 April 2007 Chafing at the WTO This article is excerpted from the 13 April 2007 edition of “globeandmail.com”. When China joined the World Trade Organization in December, 2001, after nearly 15 years of negotiations, it undertook to bring down barriers to foreign trade and investment and enact the…

13 April 2007 Customs adds C-TPAT benefit This article is extracted from the 12 April 2007 edition of “The Journal of Commerce”. Customs and Border Protection announced that it is developing procedures that will give trusted importers in the Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism (C-TPAT)…

13 April 2007 US Customs Announces Date for Mandatory Electronic Truck Manifest for Vermont, New Hampshire and North Dakota Today US Customs announced that, as of 12 July 2007, trucks entering the US through land border ports in the states of Vermont and New Hampshire, and at the ports of St. John…

12 April 2007 CN Update - State of the Railroad, April 11, 2007 - CN management personnel have been deployed and are executing our strike contingency plan in response to the UTU Canada member’s rejection April 10, 2007 of the tentative one-year settlement. - CN said today it is locking out UTU…

12 April 2007 Scheduled Maintenance Outage, 14 and 15 April 2007 The following is a message to all Electronic Commerce clients from the Canada Border Services Agency. EDI Mailbox outage: Please be advised that due to scheduled maintenance, the mailboxes between ACROSS and CCS/CADEX will be down on…

12 April 2007 CSCB Toronto Region Annual Conference, 5 and 6 June 2007 The Toronto Region annual conference will take place on 5 and 6 June this year, at the Hockley Valley Resort in Orangeville. Members are cordially invited to attend. The first day of the event features the golf tournament and…

12 April 2007 Update to Meat Hygiene Directive: 2007-11, Russia The CFIA has updated the list of establishments eligible to export pork; the new list is effective as of 1 January 2007. There is an update to the requirements regarding trichina control in pork. The requirements to test pork for…

12 April 2007 Copper Rod, Inquiry No. NQ-2006-003 IN THE MATTER OF an inquiry, under section 42 of the Special Import Measures Act, respecting: THE DUMPING OF COPPER ROD ORIGINATING IN OR EXPORTED FROM BRAZIL AND THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION AND THE SUBSIDIZING OF COPPER ROD ORIGINATING IN OR EXPORTED…

12 April 2007 Mr. Day's guard duty The following article is extracted from the 12 April 2007 edition of “globeandmail.com”. It must have seemed the perfect opportunity to publicize how seriously the federal government takes the issue of port security, which a recent Senate report indicated is not…

12 April 2007 Softwood deal apt to implode, trade envoys say The following article is excerpted from the 12 April 2007 edition of the “National Post”. The six-month-old softwood trade agreement … likely will not survive its seven-year mandate, say the former chief negotiators for both sides. "This…

12 April 2007 Secure Freight Initiative Begins Testing at Two Foreign Ports This news release is excerpted from that issued by US Customs and Border Protection on 11 April 2007. The Departments of Homeland Security and Energy announced … that operational testing is underway in Honduras and Pakistan…

12 April 2007 China overtakes U.S. in exports, WTO says This article is excerpted from the 12 April 2007 edition of “globeandmail.com”. The WTO report on world trade in 2006 is available on their web site, at http://www.wto.org/english/news_e/pres07_e/pr472_e.htm. China surpassed the United States…

12 April 2007 Brokers, forwarders in alliance This article is excerpted from the 11 April 2007 edition of “The Journal of Commerce”. The Airforwarders Association and the National Customs Brokers and Forwarders Association of America on Wednesday announced a joint lobbying effort, the Strategic…

12 April 07 Filing rules at issue for importers, Customs The following article is excerpted from the 12 April 2007 edition of “The Journal of Commerce”. The different needs of the U.S.government and importers stood in sharp contrast… at the opening session of the 11th Annual Northeast Trade and…

11 April 2007 Update to CFIA AIRS Web Site Chapter 08 was published. Change in release recommendation for human consumption for all countries except Argentina, Chile, New Zealand, South Africa and the continental United States 08.08.10.4001 - Apple (fresh)

11 April 2007 Items 135 to 139: Eggs and Egg Products – Supplementary Imports Notice to Importers No. 709 This Notice sets out the Minister’s policies and practices respecting supplementary imports of eggs and egg products, and replaces Notice to Importers No. 634 dated 19 August, 2002. It refers to…

11 April 2007 Update from CN - State of the Railroad, April 11, 2007 UTU Canada members have rejected the tentative one-year settlement with CN. CN management personnel have been sent out across our network in Canada and are ready to perform the work of striking UTU employees who engage in rotating…

11 April 2007 Final Reminder – the First CCS Quiz Finishes on 16 April! The deadline for completion of the first CCS quiz for 2007 is 2:00 pm EDT on Monday, 16 April. Please take this opportunity to gain ten professional development points towards maintenance of the CCS designation if you have not…

11 April 2007 CITT Hearing Schedule for Appeals The most recent schedule for appeals hearings is available on the CITT web site, at: http://www.citt-tcce.gc.ca/appeals/hearings/070411_e.asp

11 April 2007 Update to CFIA AIRS Web Site Chapter 08 was published - change in miscellaneous field for China (human consumption). 08.08.10.4001 - Apple (fresh) New miscellaneous codes : 694 - Container weighing less than 200 kg / Shandong province 695 - Container weighing more than 200 kg /…