Trade News

15 June 2000 EDI Test Environment The following message is from the Electronic Commerce Unit at the CCRA. Members are advised that the EDI TEST environment will not be available from Friday, June 23, 2000 to Friday, June 30, 2000. This outage will affect all EDI TEST environments (CADEX, CUSDEC…

14 June 2000 Request for Interim Review No.: RD-99-002 In the matter of a request for an interim review of the finding made by the Canadian International Trade Tribunal on March 21, 1997, in Inquiry No. NQ-96-002 concerning fresh garlic originating in or exported from the People's Republic of China…

14 June 2000 Appeal No. AP-99-073 This appeal followed a decision of the Federal Court of Appeal which referred the matter back to the Tribunal for re-hearing. The goods in issue are rubber crawler tracks. They are composed of vulcanized rubber containing a cord and canvas, as well as steel…

12 June 2000 Appeal AP-98-092 The goods in issue are photocopier toner cartridges which are temporarily attached to photocopies in order to transfer toner contained in the cartridge into the toner hopper of photocopiers. The toner functions in the photocopying process to make the image being…

12 June 2000 D Memorandum D17-1-5 Updated The following D memorandum has been updated: D17-1-5 Importing Commercial Goods This Memorandum has been completely revised to incorporate and replace the following memoranda: D1-7-2 Acceptance of Uncertified Cheques D17-1-4 Interim Accounting (Sight…

9 June 2000 Updates to the Sublocation List The following are the updates to the sublocation list. Members requiring the complete sublocation document, please contact Jill Burgess at (613) 941-0335 or via email: [email protected] Division Port Sub-Office Warehouse Name #1-1 Atlantic 0912…

8 June 2000 D Memoranda D-328, D-329 and D-330 Now Available The following D memoranda are available: D-328 Certain Flat Hot-Rolled Carbon and Alloy Steel Sheet Products D-329 Faced Rigid Cellular Polyurethane-Modified Thermal Insulation Board Originating in or Exported from the United States of…

8 June 2000 Canada Endorses APEC Initiative for Developing Countries On 7 June, the Honourable Pierre Pettigrew, PC, MP, Minister for International Trade, joined trade ministers from the Asia-Pacific region in a renewed call for the launch of a broader round of WTO negotiations. The call came at the…

8 June 2000 EDI Outage Scheduled for 11 June 2000 The following is a message from the Electronic Commerce Unit at the CCRA. EDI will not be available on Sunday, 11 June 2000 from 03:00 to 11:00 ET. This will impact all EDI applications, including ER, RNS, CUSDEC, marine and rail cargo. No EDI…

7 June 2000 ISO 9001:2000 Transition and What it Means The following information was provided by one of our associate members, Orio QM Consultants, and we thank them for their input. Orio QM Consultants can be contacted via their web site, at http://www.orio.com. Why revise the ISO 9000 family of…

7 June 2000 PC 2000-797 PC 2000-797 is the Stranded Steel Wire Remission Order. 1. Subject to section 2, remission is hereby granted of the customs duties paid or payable under the Customs Tariff in respect of non-alloy steel stranded wire, having a diameter of 5 mm or less, of subheading No. 7312…

6 June 2000 Review No.: RR-99-004 In the matter of a review, under subsection 76(2) of the Special Import Measures Act, of the order made by the Canadian International Trade Tribunal on June 5, 1995, in Review No. RR-94-004, continuing, without amendment, its order made on June 5, 1990, in Review No…

5 June 2000 Agenda for Ontario Region Meeting, 9 June 2000 The following is the agenda for the Ontario Region annual meeting, to be held on Friday, 9 June at the Oakwood Inn, Grand Bend. All members are invited to attend. This information is also available on the CSCB web site (http://www.cscb.ca)…

5 June 2000 Memorandum D17-4-1 The following D memorandum has been updated: D17-4-1 Persons Authorized to Account for Casual Goods This Memorandum has been revised to reflect organizational changes resulting from the implementation of the Canada Customs and Revenue Agency on 1 November 1999, and to…

5 June 2000 Canada and Singapore to Explore Free Trade On 5 June, the Honourable Pierre Pettigrew, Minister for International Trade, announced that officials from Canada and Singapore will begin exploring the possibility of negotiating a bilateral free trade agreement. Minister Pettigrew made the…

2 June 2000 CTR 3554 -- Deputy Minister of National Revenue v Charley Originals Ltd. At issue was whether the CITT correctly held that quota payments made by the respondents to third parties in Hong Kong in order to secure export licenses were to be added to the price paid for the goods imported…

1 June 2000 TRQ Reached on Imports of Frozen Broccoli and Cauliflower from Mexico The following message is from Sylvie Myre in the Interdepartmental Programs Section of the CCRA. Updates on TRQ's on certain agricultural products entitled to the Mexico Tariff are available on the CSCB web site, at…

1 June 2000 Logistics on the Web: Hurry up and wait The following article is excerpted from "The Journal of Commerce" issue of 1 June 2000. Change is coming. This has been the message from transportation analysts for more than a year now. The Internet is going to change transportation logistics…