Trade News

12 March 2004 Appeal No. AP-2002-023 This is an appeal pursuant to section 67 of the Customs Act from 17 decisions of the Commissioner of the Canada Customs and Revenue Agency dated April 16, 2002, made pursuant to subsection 60(4) of the Customs Act. The issue in this appeal is whether imported…

12 March 2004 Request No. MP-2003-001 IN THE MATTER OF a ruling under section 90 of the Special Import Measures Act, R.S.C. 1985, c. S-15, as amended, on the question of who is the importer in Canada of: BICYCLES IMPORTER RULING The Canadian International Trade Tribunal conducted an inquiry…

12 March 2004 Appeal No. AP-2003-036 IN THE MATTER OF an appeal filed on September 19, 2003, under section 67 of the Customs Act, R.S.C. 1985 (2d Supp.), c. 1; AND IN THE MATTER OF a motion by Roche Vitamins Canada Inc., filed on October 28, 2003, pursuant to subrule 17(2) of the Canadian…

12 March 2004 Revision of Directive D-98-01, and Revocation of Directive D-94-12 CFIA Directive D-98-01, “Import Requirements for seed potatoes and other potato propagative material” has been revised as follows: This directive governs the admission of field-grown seed potatoes and potato propagative…

11 March 2004 CN offers CAW three choices to resolve labour dispute The following message was posted on the CN web site on 10 March 2004. CN yesterday offered the Canadian Auto Workers union (CAW) three options to resolve the current labour dispute. CN said the impasse between the company and union…

11 March 2004 Increased Access for U.S. Feeder Cattle Imports The following news release is from the CFIA on 10 March 2004. The Honourable Bob Speller, Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food and Minister responsible for the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA), today announced that the CFIA will be…

11 March 2004 StatsCan reports weak imports, exports The following article is excerpted from the 10 March edition of the “Toronto Star”. Canada’s merchandise trade surplus fell to $5.2 billion in January from $5.4 billion in December as both imports and exports weakened, says Statistics Canada…

11 March 2004 Koch: Shippers could be caught in security issues of non-U.S. ports The following article is excerpted from “American Shipper” on 11 March 2004. Christopher Koch, president and chief executive officer of the World Shipping Council, the Washington-based group representing liner carriers…

11 March 2004 EDI Maintenance outage on March 14, 2004 The following message is from the Electronic Commerce Unit of the CBSA. Please be advised that there is a planned outage this Sunday, March 14, 2004 for maintenance purposes. Therefore, the Customs EDI system will be unavailable from 5:30 am…

10 March 2004 Seeking smarter inspections The following article is excerpted from “The Journal of Commerce” edition of 9 March 2004. … [Did you see the] statement by the Transportation Security Administration that it was considering asking importers to provide invoice information about the goods…

10 March 2004 Ongoing Testing on Fraser Valley, British Columbia Farm Reveals High Pathogenic Avian Influenza Since the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) announcement on February 23 of low pathogenic avian influenza on a Fraser Valley, B.C. farm, ongoing tests have been performed as a part of…

10 March 2004 RC4105 Moving Back to Canada The above-mentioned publication is available on the CBSA web site, at: http://www.cbsa-asfc.gc.ca/E/pub/cp/rc4105/README.html http://www.cbsa-asfc.gc.ca/E/pub/cp/rc4105/README.html

10 March 2004 Minutes of Bench & Bar Committee Meeting, 27 November 2003 Minutes of the CITT and Canadian Bar Association meeting held last November is available on the CITT web site, at http://www.citt-tcce.gc.ca/publicat/03_11_27_e.asp. http://www.citt-tcce.gc.ca/publicat/03_11_27_e.asp

10 March 2004 Expiry No. LE-2003-007 Certain Concrete Reinforcing Bar Notice of Expiry of finding concerning Certain Concrete Reinforcing Bar is found on the CITT web site, at http://www.citt-tcce.gc.ca/dumping/expiries/notices/le2d007_e.asp http://www.citt-tcce.gc.ca/dumping/expiries/notices…

10 March 2004 Expiry Review No. RR-2003-004 Certain Cold-Rolled Steel Sheet Products NOTICE OF CHANGE OF DATE OF PUBLIC HEARING On December 9, 2003, the Canadian International Trade Tribunal gave notice that it had initiated a review pursuant to subsection 76(2) of the Special Import Measures Act…

10 March 2004 Appeal No. AP-2003-013 IN THE MATTER OF an appeal heard on November 24, 2003, under subsection 67(1) of the Customs Act, R.S.C. 1985 (2d Supp.), c. 1; AND IN THE MATTER OF decisions of the Commissioner of the Canada Customs and Revenue Agency with respect to a request for re…

9 March 2004 Rail Update – 8 March 2004 The following message is from CN. Official negotiations between CN and the CAW have broken off, after a weekend of talks. No new formal bargaining sessions are planned, although informal dialogue with the union continues. CN has withdrawn all offers to the CAW…

9 March 2004 Update to AIRS-CFIA Web Site Chapter 06 was published this morning. 06.01.10.0002 - Bulb - ornamental - dormant/Bulbe - ornemental - dormant 06.01.10.0004 - Tubers, tuberous roots, corms, crowns and rhizomes - dormant/Tubercules, racines tubéreuses, rhizomes, racines, couronnes -…

9 March 2004 Wal-Mart moves ahead with RFID The following article is excerpted from the 9 March 2004 edition of “American Shipper”. Wal-Mart will begin a pilot test of radio frequency identification technology at a single regional distribution center in the Dallas area in April, marking the next…

9 March 2004 Updated Version of PRD’s for ACI, version 0.7 Members wishing to receive a copy of the ACI-EDI PRD, version 0.7 and the ANSI PRD, version 0.7 revisions are asked to contact the CSCB national office, at [email protected].