Trade News

23 August 2005 CN Export Reservations at Saskatoon The following message is from CN’s Customer Support Centre. Starting Monday, 19 September 2005 all export traffic delivered to CN at our Saskatoon Intermodal terminal must have a reservation. The attached sheet summarizes the reservation process…

23 August 2005 CBP OKs electronic NAFTA certificates The following article is excerpted from the 23 August 2005 edition of “American Shipper”. The U.S. Customs and Border Patrol is now accepting electronically submitted NAFTA Certificates of Origin. CBP issued a directive (3810-014A) that clarifies…

The following messages were sent on 23 August: 1. Canadian Customs Articles It's tie to stop playing softwood charades 2. Canadian Food Inspection Agency (directives) Update to appendix 5, Directive D-96-15... 3. Other Economists predict a revival of the world economy 4. Rail Notices CN Announces…

23 August 2005 Economists predict a revival of the world economy in the second half of 2005 The following article is excerpted from the International Chamber of Commerce. The recent cool down of the world economy is expected to pick-up over the next six months, according to the results of the latest…

22 August 2005 Strategic Environmental Assessment of a Government Procurement Chapter of the Canada-Chile Free Trade Agreement (CCFTA) Closing date: September 12, 2005 The Government of Canada is currently negotiating a Government Procurement Chapter which is expected to form part of the existing…

22 August 2005 Trading with the 'schoolyard bully' The following article is excerpted from the 20 August 2005 edition of “globeandmail.com”. They were present at the creation. And they feel betrayed. Derek Burney, Pat Carney, Allan Gotlieb, Simon Reisman and Gordon Ritchie were key members of the…

22 August 2005 Promises, Promises The following article is excerpted from the 22 August 2005 edition of “The New York Times”. In 1947, when 23 nations agreed to start a new international organization to promote trade and arbitrate disputes, the wants of poor countries mattered little. Industrialized…

22 August 2005 EICS ENTRUST.INI File – Implementation Delayed The following message is from the EICB. It was not possible to complete the technical portion of the implementation of the new EICS addressing over the weekend. If you have not yet performed the changes requested last week, you have a…

22 August 2005 Keep NAFTA despite softwood woes The following article is extracted from the 22 August 2005 edition of the “Financial Post”. Despite its inability to resolve the current softwood lumber dispute with the United States, the North American Free Trade Agreement remains vital to Canada's…

22 August 2005 New truckers hours released The following article is excerpted from the 22 August 2005 edition of “The Journal of Commerce”. Federal regulators on [19 August] released new hours of service rules for [US] truck drivers that left most of the controversial HOS regulations issued in 2003…

The following messages were sent on 22 August: 1. Canadian Customs Articles Trading with the 'schoolyard bully' Promises, Promises Keep NAFTA despite softwood woes 2. International Trade Canada (eics operations) EICS Entrust.ini File - Implementation Delayed 3. International Trade Canada (other)…

22 August 2005 Transport Minister Leads Transportation Mission to China The following is excerpted from a press release issued by Transport Canada on 22 August 2005. This document is available on the Transport Canada web site at http://www.tc.gc.ca/mediaroom/releases/nat/2005/05-h174e.htm. Transport…

19 August 2005 No more soft words on softwood The following article, by former BC civil servant and current professor of public policy at Simon Fraser University Doug McArthur, is excerpted from the 19 August 2005 edition of “globeandmail.com”. Canada has now announced that it's left the softwood…

19 August 2005 Revision to Directive D-96-15 This list server provides notification that Appendix 5 "AREAS INFESTED WITH OR SUSPECTED OF BEING INFESTED WITH JAPANESE BEETLE IN CANADA AND THE UNITED STATES", of Directive D-96-15, "To Prevent the spread of Japanese Beetle, Popillia japonica", has been…

19 August 2005 Outage between CBSA and VANS scheduled for 21 August 2005 In order to complete the migration of a system upgrade, communication from the CBSA to Value Added Networks (VANs) will be interrupted on Sunday August 21, 2005 from 4:00 am to 6:00 am Eastern time. Inbound and outbound data…

19 August 2005 CFIA Regulated HS Code List CFIA have provided an updated CFIA Regulated HS codes list, as well as a note on how to use the AIRS simultaneously with this list. The documents are available on the CSCB web site, at: http://www.cscb.ca/listinfo/cfiahscodes.pdf http://www.cscb.ca/listinfo…

19 August 2005 Message from CBSA re Interest Rates The annual interest rate for the fourth quarter of 2005 (Oct. 1 to December 31) will be 2.5721. The monthly interest rate for the same period will be 0.2 %.

19 August 2005 U.S. urges Canada to reschedule lumber talks The following article is excerpted from the 19 August 2005 edition of “The Journal of Commerce”. The United States wants Canada to reconsider its decision to cancel talks aimed at settling the softwood trade dispute. "We want finality to it…

19 August 2005 Message from CN regarding Cutoff Changes This message is from CN’s Customer Support Centre. Yesterday, CN announced its new service to handle an additional 125,000 intermodal units a year in Canadian transcontinental lanes. This change to CN's IMX service offering will yield the…