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Information about the Release Prior to Payment Notifications

Dear Trade Chain Partners, As you may know, the Release Prior to Payment (RPP) 180-day transition period, which extends from October 21st, 2024 to April 19, 2025, allows importers up to 180 calendar days to make their own financial security arrangements to meet the RPP program requirements. Please…
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Excise Tax Code Use - Updates

The CBSA has clarified the application of the following Excise codes: E00 Applies to the conversion of pre-CARM Customs Accounting Declarations, as declared. CBSA created this code for situations where an Excise Code is mandated on a CAD but was not used on a declared B3. To be applied when a good…
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CARM implementation Day 7 Report and Updates

CARM implementation Day 7 report of concerns as well as updates on previous days concerns/issues. New items: The CBSA has been asked if the usage of a customs broker BN with temporary bond can be used for CBSA Recognized Trade shows and unrecognized shows equally. We will advise when an answer is…
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Open position on CSCB regional council

Are you interested in engaging with likeminded counterparts on practical issues affecting your brokerage? The CSCB’s Toronto regional council has an opening for an individual to join monthly virtual roundtable discussions (via MS TEAMS). This group does not advocate for CBSA policy changes; rather…

New zoosanitary statements for eggs and processed egg products

(Le français suit) The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) is harmonizing the zoosanitary requirements for various eggs and processed egg products. The new zoosanitary statements will be published in AIRS on December 19, 2024. There will be a 6-month transition period (until June 19, 2025), where…

Notice of normal value review: Mattresses (MAT 2024 UP3)

The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) has today initiated a normal value review to establish the normal values and export prices applicable to mattresses originating in or exported from the People’s Republic of China (China) by Zinus Zhangzhou Inc. The review is part of the CBSA’s enforcement of…

Notice of normal value review: Mattresses (MAT 2024 UP1)

The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) has today initiated a normal value review to establish the normal values, export prices and amounts of subsidy applicable to mattresses originating in or exported from the People’s Republic of China (China) by Foshan EON Technology Industry Co., Ltd. The…

Notice of normal value review: Mattresses (MAT 2024 UP2)

The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) has today initiated a normal value review to establish the normal values and export prices applicable to mattresses originating in or exported from the People’s Republic of China (China) by Zinus Xiamen Inc. The review is part of the CBSA’s enforcement of the…

Conclusion of normal value review: Steel Piling Pipe (PP 2024 UP1)

The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) has today concluded a normal value review (review) to determine normal values, export prices and an amount of subsidy applicable to steel piling pipe (piling pipe) originating in or exported from China by Qingdao Geo Solar Co., Ltd (GEO). The review follows a…

EDI Release Requests Received, September 2024

The EDI release requests received report for September 2024 is available on the CSCB website ( download). The national EDI percent was 98.91%. The following indicates the IID transactions:
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CARM implementation Day 6 Report and Updates

CARM implementation Day 6 report of concerns as well as updates on previous days concerns/issues. New items: The CBSA started sending nudges today for RPP financial security. The CBSA have advised that the ‘nudges’ or financial security notifications that your clients have begun receiving are for…

Port of Montreal Job Action Beginning Thursday October 31

The Port of Montreal dockworkers union has voted in favour of more job action beginning at 11am this Thursday October 31, 2024. "The dockworkers, who were on strike on Sunday for one day, voted to hold another strike on Thursday. This time, the strike will be unlimited and it will affect the two…
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Public consultations - Canada’s import ban

Le texte français suit le texte anglais. On Thursday, October 17, Global Affairs Canada launched the Public consultations on measures to strengthen Canada’s import ban on all goods mined, manufactured, or produced wholly or in part, by forced labour. The consultation process closes on November 15…
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CBSA requests certain Help Desk tickets be addressed a different way

On Friday afternoon, the CBSA Help Desk started asking customs brokers to communicate with them in a different way for certain kinds of issues. We communicated with the CBSA to find out what is expected of you in this regard and we have been informed of the following: There are a high number of…

CFIA-AIRS Updates October 28, 2024

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 Croatia and Slovakia: 02.07 – Meat and edible offal, of the poultry of…
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CARM Implementation Day 5

CARM implementation Day 5 report of concerns as well as updates on previous days concerns/issues. New items: Importer SOAs are incomplete and not accurate. In some cases DN’s from September 26th have not been applied. It is a known problem. In addition, the CBSA has advised that September payments…

TCC24– 0100 - High-volume e-commerce shipments validation rules

La version française suit Start Date / Time End Date / Time Clients Affected 2025-01-26 N/A All clients and service providers who transmit data using EDI and the eManifest Portal Description This is to inform commercial clients submitting high-volume e-commerce shipments that starting on January…
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The first Statement of Account (SOA) following the external launch of CARM

Please see below message received from the CBSA. There are many overlapping changes that are coming into play and they are at different stages of completion. For example, the CBSA has not completely reconciled the September payments paid by PAD or even some customs broker payments. The debits and…