Trade News

19 September 2000 World Trade Organization Decision on American Challenge to Canadian Patent Term On 18 September, the Appellate Body of the World Trade Organization (WTO) upheld the ruling of an earlier WTO panel on the US challenge to Canada's patent term. The previous challenge found that for…

18 September 2000 Important Message for all CADEX Clients using Six-Digit Date Format for B3 Entry — Y2K Deadline for Testing and Conversion The following message is from the Electronic Commerce Unit of the CCRA. Members who continue to use the six-digit (yymmdd) date format in their B3 entries must…

18 September 2000 Canadian Response to the World Trade Organization Notice /SPS/N/EEC/93 The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) has responded to the World Trade Organization's (WTO) notice concerning proposed regulations for the treatment of wood packing from Canada. On 24 July 2000 the European…

15 September 2000 SIMA Re-investigation regarding Certain Top-Mount Electric Refrigerators ... On 15 September 2000 the CCRA announced initiation of a re-investigation respecting certain top- mount electric refrigerators, electric household dishwashers, and gas or electric laundry dryers…

15 September 2000 Systems Outage on 15 September 2000 The following message is from the Electronic Commerce Unit at the CCRA. As of 1:00 pm (ET) today, all EDI systems, ACROSS and CADEX were unavailable due to communications difficulties. Service is expected to be restored by 3:30 pm. Members are…

15 September 2000 Update regarding Systems Outage on 15 September 2000 The following message is from the Electronic Commerce Unit at the CCRA. The outage affecting all EDI systems, ACROSS and CADEX continues; it is now expected that service will be restored at 4:30 pm (ET).

15 September 2000 Changes to Times re Outage due to Annual Maintenance The following message is from the Electronic Commerce Unit of the CCRA. Please note that the times have changed regarding the scheduled outage on Sunday, September 17, 2000. All EDI applications will be unavailable from 2:00 am…

15 September 2000 PC 2000-1384 PC 2000-1384 is the Order Amending Certain Remission Orders made under the Financial Administration Act (2000-1). 1. Section 3 of the Specified Commercial Vehicles, Mack Trucks, Remission Order is amended by adding the word "and" at the end of paragraph (a) and by…

14 September 2000 Review No.: RR-99-005 The CITT, under the provisions of subsection 76(2) of the SIMA, has conducted a review of its order made on September 4, 1995 in Review No. RR-94-007. Pursuant to subsection 76(4) of the SIMA, the CITT hereby continues the above-mentioned order. This…

14 September 2000 Appeal No. AP-99-043 This appeal followed a decision of the Federal Court of Appeal which referred the matter back to the Tribunal for re-hearing. Pursuant to subsection 48(5) of the Customs Act, the Tribunal had concluded that the credit note stipulated on the Canada Customs…

14 September 2000 Communications Problems for EDI Systems, ACROSS and CADEX The following message is from the Electronic Commerce Unit at the CCRA. All EDI systems, ACROSS and CADEX have been experiencing communications/applications problems throughout the day. By current estimates all systems…

14 September 2000 Outage due to Annual Maintenance on 17 September The following message is from the Electronic Commerce Unit of the CCRA. Please be advised that EDI will be down Sunday, September 17, 2000 from 4:00 am to 9:00 pm ET due to annual maintenance. This will impact all EDI applications…

13 September 2000 Coveralls The following message is from the Export and Import Control Bureau at DFAIT. The EICB has been made aware of two instances where clients received incorrect information, resulting in shipments of restricted coveralls originating in Sri Lanka and the United Arab Emirates…

13 September 2000 SIMA Re-investigation re Certain Stainless Steel Welded Pipe Products On 13 September 2000 the CCRA initiated a re-investigation of the normal values and export prices of certain stainless steel welded pipe products, originating in or exported from Taiwan. A Customs Notice will be…

12 September 2000 Establishment of World Trade Organization (WTO) Panel The Minister of International Trade has announced that the WTO has established a dispute settlement panel to rule whether the United States' treatment of export restraints under its countervailing duty regime violates WTO…

11 September 2000 Certain Concrete Reinforcing Bar The CCRA has initiated a review of the normal values and export prices of certain concrete reinforcing bar, originating in or exported from the Republic of Cuba, the Republic of Korea and the Republic of Turkey. A Customs Notice concerning this…

11 September 2000 Canada to Chair APEC Trade Facilitation Workshop The Minister of International Trade, the Honourable Pierre Pettigrew, PC, MP announced that Canada will chair a major APEC workshop on trade facilitation in the Asia Pacific group in Singapore, between 12 and 14 September…