Trade News

9 September 2005 Hurricane Katrina Update from CN On Thursday evening, September 08, 2005, CN made a minor adjustment to its embargo. The following areas remain under embargo: - New Orleans, LA - Specific facilities at Reserve and Desterhan, LA Local traffic to and from New Orleans LA remains under…

9 September 2005 Katrina a lesson for DHS, traders The following article is excerpted from the 8 September 2005 edition of “The Journal of Commerce”. Shippers moving freight through the nation's ports should learn a valuable lesson from Hurricane Katrina. Particularly, shippers should take careful…

9 September 2005 Global textile group blasts EU-China apparel deal The following article is extracted from the 9 September 2005 edition of “American Shipper”. The Global Alliance for Fair Textile Trade (GAFTT), comprising 97 trade groups representing domestic textile and apparel manufacturers in 55…

9 September 2005 Canada and China sign bilateral agreements and announce science and technology joint declaration The following is extracted from a press release issued by the Prime Minister’s office on 9 September. Prime Minister Martin today announced that Canada and China have reached seven new…

8 September 2005 Hurricane Katrina Update from CN As of 10:00 pm yesterday, CN further amended the embargo, lifting restrictions on movement of traffic to most stations on the Baton Rouge subdivision with the following exceptions: - New Orleans, LA - Specific facilities at Reserve and Desterhan, LA…

8 September 2005 EU members okay deal to unblock Chinese textiles The following article is excerpted from the 8 September 2005 edition of “globeandmail.com”. European Union governments yesterday backed a deal to unblock Chinese textiles held at EU borders…. The EU head office said member states had…

8 September 2005 Appeal No. AP-2004-018 Gladhu Tools Inc. IN THE MATTER OF an appeal heard on February 3 and 4, 2005, under subsection 67(1) of the Customs Act, R.S.C. 1985 (2nd Supp.), c. 1; AND IN THE MATTER OF decisions of the President of the Canada Border Services Agency dated June 15 and 22…

8 September 2005 Reminder -- Seminar on Valuation in CSCB Prairie Region The CSCB Prairie Region will host a valuation seminar on 13 September 2005, led by the CBSA. This event will take place in Winnipeg at the CanadInns Polo Park location. It is available to all CSCB corporate and associate…

8 September 2005 Western Canada Terminals, Reservation Process (Loads and Empties) The following message is from CN’s Customer Support Centre. As previously announced, all Western Canadian Terminals are or will shortly be using the reservation process to ingate containers required for rail movement…

8 September 2005 Scheduled Outage for Weekend of 10-11 September 2005 The following is from the Electronic Commerce Unit at the CBSA. Members are advised that there is a planned outage this weekend for the migration of a system release. Therefore, the Customs EDI system will be unavailable from 9:30…

8 September 2005 EICS Bulletin regarding EICS Database Maintenance EICS database maintenance will be performed on the system TONIGHT . EICS will be unavailable from 21:00 (9pm) EST, Thursday 8 September, until 04:00 EST Friday 9 September 2005.

8 September 2005 Ports start to rebound from Katrina The following article is extracted from the 8 September 2005 edition of “The Journal of Commerce”. Ports along the central Gulf of Mexico are starting to recover from Hurricane Katrina. The reopening of the Mississippi River, coupled with the…

8 September 2005 Empty Repositioning Management Process The following message is from CN’s Customer Support Centre. Over the couple of months, CN has announced multiple enhancements to the MT Booking process, empty inventory management and Domestic repositioning processes. In response to many…

8 September 2005 Canada–Korea Free Trade Agreement (FTA) - Market Access Negotiations for Agricultural and Non-Agricultural Goods Closing date: October 7, 2005 It is anticipated that Canada and Korea will exchange initial tariff offers for agricultural and non-agricultural goods in early November…

8 September 2005 PC 2005-1467, Regulations Amending the Firearms Marking Regulations PC 2005-1467 is the “Regulations Amending the Firearms Marking Regulations”. Amendment 1. Section 6 of the Firearms Marking Regulations is replaced by the following: 6. These Regulations come into force on December…

8 September 2005 PC 2005-1464 Order Amending the Import Control List PC 2004-1464 is the Order Amending the Import Control List. 1. Items 80 and 81 of the Import Control List are replaced by the following: 80. Carbon steel products including semi-finished products (ingots, blooms, billets, slabs and…

8 September 2005 Port of Vancouver sees increase in container traffic The following article is excerpted from the 7 September 2005 edition of “Canadian Transportation & Logistics”. Despite being crippled by a container trucker strike for a significant part of the summer, the Port of Vancouver has…

8 September 2005 Border guards vital in global village The following article is extracted from the “Montreal Gazette” edition of 7 September 2005. In the so-called globalized world without borders, border guards were supposed to be a thing of the past. But just as the paperless society has left us…

7 September 2005 CN will reopen it reservations system for the Maersk Perth September 7th The following message is from CN’s Customer Support Centre. We have been advised by Cast Terminals that they will begin to accept traffic for the Maersk Perth at Cast, effective Thuursday, September 8, 2005. CN…

7 September 2005 Retailers Say Europe Gave Incentives to Win China Deal The following article is excerpted from the 7 September 2005 edition of “The New York Times”. Leading European retailers accused the European Union on Tuesday of granting some textile-producing nations special incentives to win…