Trade News

4 June 2002 Prairie Region AGM The CSCB Prairie Region annual meeting will be held on Thursday, 20 June 2002, from 8:00 am to 3:30 pm at the Greenwood Inn, 3515 26th Street NE, Calgary. To view an agenda of the meeting and to register, please click on the following address: http://www.cscb.ca…

4 June 2002 SIMA - Review The CCRA has concluded its three re-investigations of the normal values, export prices and amounts of subsidy of certain stainless steel bar originating in or exported from several countries. Members with any questions regarding these re-investigations, may wish to contact…

3 June 2002 Allergy Alert - Undeclared Milk Protein In Pride Of The World Brand Chocolate Creme Cookies On May 31, 2002, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) warned consumers not to consume Pride of the World brand Chocolate Creme Cookies. The affected product may contain milk protein which is…

3 June 2002 June 2002 SIMA Index Available The SIMA index for June 2002 is available at the following address: http://www.cscb.ca/listinfo/SIMAJune.pdf http://www.cscb.ca/listinfo/SIMAJune.pdf

3 June 2002 Customs Notice 445 - Change to the Bilingual Format of Departmental Memoranda and Related Publications 1. This notice advises that, effective June 3, 2002, CCRA will no longer publish the Customs Memoranda D and R, Customs Notices, and Customs Proposals, in a bilingual format. After that…

3 June 2002 Notice to Importers - No. 631 Chicken and Chicken Products 1.0 This Notice is to advise chicken quota holders that, pursuant to a recommendation at the April 9, 2002 meeting of the Chicken and Turkey Tariff Rate Quota Advisory Committee, a quota return policy has been established for…

3 June 2002 Planned Outage - Sunday, June 9, 2002 The following message is from the Electronic Commerce Unit of the CCRA. Please note that for maintenance purposes, there is a planned outage this Sunday, June 9, 2002. Therefore, the Customs EDI system will be unavailable from 3:00 am until 11:00 am…

31 May 2002 No quick solution for age-old softwood fight The following article is excerpted from “The Globe & Mail” of 31 May 2002. With the ink still drying on their new constitution, the members of the first U.S. Congress got down to the business of building a mighty nation in the spring of 1789…

31 May 2002 NAFTA Tribunal Awards Minimal Damages To Pope & Talbot The Government of Canada received a decision from a NAFTA tribunal today that has awarded American lumber producer, Pope & Talbot, Inc., US$461,566 in damages and interest arising out of the tribunal ruling that administrative…

The following messages were sent on 31 May 2002. 1. Canadian International Trade Tribunal NAFTA Tribunal Awards Minimal Damages To Pope & Talbot 2. General A. No quick solution for age-old softwood fight B. Challenge harsh U.S. duties, lumber remanufacturers told

31 May 2002 Challenge harsh U.S. duties, lumber remanufacturers told The following article is excerpted from “The Globe & Mail” of 31 May 2002 VANCOUVER -- Representatives of Canada's $4-billion lumber remanufacturing sector are telling their members they should challenge crippling duties imposed on…

30 May 2002 Review of Recommendation Concerning Certain Textile Products – Request for Time Extension (Review No. TA-2002-001) The Tribunal has received requests for an extension of the period allowed for the provision of information concerning the above-referenced review. As a result, the Tribunal…

30 May 2002 Customs Notice 418 - Mandatory RNS for Warehouse Operators The CCRA has advised that July 1, 2002, remains the implementation date for Customs Notice 418. This notice states that sufferance warehouse operators may not release goods from their warehouse until they are in receipt of one of…

29 May 2002 Undeclared Gluten In Milupa Step 1 Baby Meal Rice Cereal Lot 012008 Expiry 20.08.2002 Montreal, May 28, 2002 – Van de Water- Raymond Ltd/Ltée. of Montreal, Quebec and Milupa GmbH & Co. KG of Germany is warning consumers not to consume MILUPA STEP 1 BABY MEAL RICE CEREAL. The affected…

29 May 2002 Request for Removal of Tariff. The Department of Finance is seeking members' views on a request for removal of the tariff on certain needleloom felt for chestpieces in the manufacture of boy’s and men’s suit jackets, sports jackets and blazers. The felt is a blend consisting of 55%…

29 May 2002 Revised B13A The CCRA have recently revised the paper version of form B13A. Those exporters using CADE are not affected by any of the changes made. A summary of the changes are as follows: - field 1: deleted "Canadian"; revised format of address - field 2: added spaces for the required…

29 May 2002 Province Code Change The following message is from the Electronic Commerce Unit of the CCRA. Please be advised that effective October 21, 2002, the Newfoundland and Labrador province code will change from NF to NL and the description of the province will change from Newfoundland to…