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REMINDER: There will be a CFIA schedule maintenance between October 28 at 15:00 ET and October 30 at 07:00 ET. See details below. Clients Affected: All clients and service providers who transmit trade data using the Integrated Import Declaration (IID). This notice is to advise Trade Chain Partners…

Registration for the 2023-2024 CCS (Certified Customs Specialist) course is open until October 31, 2023. This interactive online course emphasizes the four major customs processes in Canada: reporting, release, accounting, and payment of duties and taxes. Available in either English or French…

If you haven’t yet registered for the 2023 CSCB National Conference being held on from November 5-7, 2023, at the Hotel Omni Mont-Royal – time is running out! Registration will close today, Friday, October 27, 2023, at 2:00pm EDT.

1. The purpose of this notice is to advise that: effective April 1st, 2023 the company located at 250 rue St-Urbain, Granby, QC has surrendered their "BW" type highway sufferance warehouse licence. the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) has decided not to advertise for a new highway sufferance…

1. The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) wishes to advise of an amendment to the Departmental Consolidation of the Customs Tariff (Tariff). 2. The 2023-7 Tariff reflects a change to the description of tariff item 9984.00.00, which took effect October 11, 2023. The description is amended by…

The EDI release requests received report for September 2023 is available on the CSCB website ( download). The national EDI percent was 98.70%. The following indicates the IID transactions:

Please note that this is not a change in policy, but clarification of an existing policy. For more details, the Terrestrial Animal Products and By-products Import Policy Framework discusses trans-shipments in Section 8 (General Import Requirements). Trans-shipment means a movement of commodities…

(Le texte français suit le texte anglais) REMINDER: Maintenance notice To perform necessary system maintenance, the following services will be unavailable from October 28, 2023 3:00 PM to October 30, 2023 7:00 AM (ET): Automated Import Reference System Verification Service (AVS) CFIA Shipment…

The transition period for the Fertilizers Regulations comes to an end on October 26, 2023. Going forward, all fertilizer and supplement importers, manufacturers, distributors and retailers are required to comply with the provisions of the amended regulations. Find out more in the Notice to Industry…

CARM Client Support (CCS) RE: Daily Notices (DN) and Statement of Accounts (SOA) for October 25, 2023 resolved A technical issue occurred overnight, resulting in the delay of Daily Notice (DN) and Statement of Accounts (SOA) not being sent to external partners for October 25, 2023. The issue has…

The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) has now closed the record of the normal value review (review) of certain carbon steel fasteners (fasteners) originating in or exported from China by Pinghu Gete Auto Fastener Co. Ltd. The review is part of the CBSA’s enforcement of the Canadian International…

Small business optimism in Canada CFIB’s Business Barometer® long-term index, which is based on 12-month forward expectations for business performance, dropped 1.5 points to 47.2, a very low reading for the indicator. The short-term optimism index, based on a 3-month outlook, lost almost five points…

The government has published the comments it received on proposed amendments to the Valuation for Duty Regulations. A total of 431 comments were received from the CSCB and other associations, importers and private individuals, with concerns covering a number of key themes: The proposed amendments…

The following was published in the Canada Gazette, Part II, Volume 157, Number 22 on October 25, 2023: Commonwealth Caribbean Countries Tariff Rules of Origin Regulations — Regulations Amending the Customs Tariff Customs Tariff (Commonwealth Caribbean Countries Tariff) — Order Amending the Schedule…

CARM Client Support (CCS) RE: Unexpected Delay of Daily Notice and Statement of Account A technical issue occurred overnight resulting in the Daily Notice and Statement of Account being sent at a slower than normal rate this morning on October 25, 2023. Brokers and Importers may encounter a delay in…

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) has made updates to the “Certification Requirements” section of the Food Export Certification webpage. This email notification serves as a reminder to all food exporters that when requesting an export certificate or other export permission, exporters must…

A) Chapter 12 Chapter 12 was published to modify the import conditions for the following HS codes with the end use “Animal feed” originating from Burkina Faso, Burundi, Benin, Central African Republic, Congo, Ivory Coast, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Ghana, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi…