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25 October 2002 CFIA Outage This Weekend Members should note that for maintenance purposes, there will be an outage of the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) systems from 3:00 am Saturday, October 26, 2002 to 5:00 pm on Sunday, October 27, 2002. Clients are advised to present paper packages for…

23 October 2002 Customs Notice N-475 Customs Notice N-475 is now available on the CCRA web site: N-475 Tariff Item No. 9991.00.00 – Samples of Negligible Value This Notice addresses the concerns raised following a review of the use of tariff item No. 9991.00.00. The Notice is available at the…

23 October 2002 Request for Textile Tariff Relief, TR-2002-002 The CITT has initiated an investigation into a request by Peerless Clothing Inc. for tariff relief on needleloom felt, not impregnated, coated, covered or laminated, containing 10 per cent or more of wool or fine animal hair, of…

23 October 2002 CFIA Draft D Memorandum re “General Import Requirements for Plants, Plant Products and Other Things from the Continental United States” The CSCB national office has received the above-mentioned draft directive D94-14 from the Canadian Food Inspection Agency. The CFIA has asked for…

23 October 2002 Importation of Chicken Meat from Brazil The following message is from Dr. Lou Skrinar, Chief, Import Program in the Food of Animal Origin Division of the CFIA. Due to USDA restrictions being imposed on Canadian establishments exporting poultry meat products to the USA, resulting from…

22 October 2002 Tariff Amendment Package T-2002-8 Tariff Amendment package T-2002-8 has been completed. The package of amendments to the 2002 version of the Departmental Consolidation of the Customs Tariff reflects the following: * amendments made pursuant to the Order Amending the Schedule to the…

22 October 2002 PC 2002-1709 PC 2002-1709 is the Order Amending the Schedule to the Customs Tariff, 2002-7. Amendments 1. Tariff item Nos 2836.20.00, 3920.30.00, 5513.12.00, 5513,12.00, 5513,19.00, 5514, 11.00, 5514,12.00, 5514.13.00 and 5514.19.00 in the List of Tariff Provisions set out in the…

21 October 2002 Notice to Importers No. 637 Notice to Importers, Serial No. 637 (Wheat Products), has been updated on the DFAIT web site, at the following address: http://www.dfait-maeci.gc.ca/~eicb/notices/ser637-e.htm Date: October 11, 2002 1.0 Coverage 1.1 This Notice is an adjunct to Notice to…

21 October 2002 Customs Notice N-473 The following Customs Notice is available on the CCRA web site: N-473 Tariff Classification of Throat Pastilles or Cough Drops not Consisting Essentially of Sugar This Notice explains the CCRA’s administrative policy for the tariff classification of throat…

21 October 2002 Customs Broker Professional Examination Information announcing the forthcoming Customs Broker Professional Examination is available on the CCRA web site, at the following address: http://www.ccra-adrc.gc.ca/customs/business/importing/brokers/exam-e.ht… As members were notified on 1…

21 October 2002 Expiry Review No. RR-2001-005 The following Review is available on the CITT web site: RR-2001-005 Certain Waterproof Footwear Originating in or Exported from the PRC In the matter of an expiry review, under subsection 76.03(3) of the Special Import Measures Act, of the order made by…

21 October 2002 Correction to Memorandum D1-1-1 The following D memorandum has been updated: D1-1-1 List of Customs Offices Appendix I (only) has been corrected. This document is available on the CCRA web site at the following address: http://www.ccra-adrc.gc.ca/menu/EmenuKCB.html http://www.ccra…

21 October 2002 Correction to Master Penalty Document – Penalty C353 Please note the following correction to the Master Penalty Document (in English): Contravention wording for C353 applies to corrections to a declaration of value for duty. This note is available on the CCRA web site at the…

21 October 2002 Outage Scheduled for Sunday, 27 October 2002 The following message is from the Electronic Commerce Unit at the CCRA. Members should note that for maintenance purposes and to return the system to Standard Time, there is a planned outage this Sunday, October 27, 2002. The Customs EDI…

21 October 2002 GTA Committee Meeting, 25 September 2002 Minutes from the following meeting are also posted on the Toronto Region page on the CSCB web site, at http://www.cscb.ca. After logging in as a member, choose “CSCB Reference System”, then select “CSCB Regions” from the reference system main…

18 October 2002 Appointment from Ontario to CCRA Board of Management The Minister of National Revenue has announced the appointment of Brock Smith to the CCRA Board of Management for a two-year term. Mr. Smith is a public affairs consultant from Toronto and was formerly Deputy Treasurer of Ontario.

18 October 2002 Tariff Amendments T2002-8 Tariff Amendments T2002-8 reflects the following: 1. amendments made pursuant to the Order Amending the Schedule to the Customs Tariff, 2002-7, PC 2002-1709, SOR/2002-367 (various effective dates) 2. amendments to the statistical breakouts All amendments are…

18 October 2002 Port of Montreal box traffic grows The following article is excerpted from the 17 October 2002 edition of “The Journal of Commerce” on-line. The Port of Montreal¹s container traffic has been pulling ahead of 2001 levels since March, with the eight-month figures up 4.5 percent…