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(Le français suit) As of July 4, 2022, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) will be making the following service changes at the Centre of Administration for Permissions: Change in timing of invoicing and fee collection To reflect the current costs of delivering CFIA services, the CFIA will…

The United Truckers Association voted Friday in favour of job action against a recent Port of Vancouver directive that forbids operators from driving vehicles more than 12 years old. Gagan Singh, spokesperson for the association, said that 639 of the 1,000 members voted to withdraw service, with no…

July 3, 2022 - The Honourable Mary Ng, Minister of International Trade, Export Promotion, Small Business and Economic Development, will welcome Ambassador Katherine Tai, United States Trade Representative, and Tatiana Clouthier Carrillo, Mexico’s Secretary of Economy, to Vancouver, Canada from July…

(Le français suit) For a limited period of time, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency has modified and reinstated Option 2c as part of the import policy " Requirements for Small Ruminants Imported From the United States for Breeding, Domestic or Captive Purposes-TAHD-DSAT-IE-2007-5-6". It will be…

(Le français suit) Please be advised that the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) has updated the following modules of the Accredited Veterinarian Manual: Module 7.3 – Scrapie Flock Certification Program: Accredited Veterinarian's Responsibilities Awareness of the requirements related to males…

CARM Client Support (CCS) RE: Planned CARM Outage Please be advised that all CARM Services, including the Client portal, will be unavailable Saturday, July 2 2022 from 12 p.m. (Eastern Time) to 6 p.m. (Eastern Time) due to monthly maintenance of the servers. Thank you for your patience. Service à la…

The Import Control System 2 (ICS2), the European Union Advance Cargo Information System launched on 15 March 2021. The next phase of the ICS2 system - Release 2 - will go live on 1 March 2023. All postal operators, express couriers, freight forwarders and air carriers in charge of sending, receiving…

Clients Affected: All clients and service providers who transmit trade data using EDI. The Technical Commercial Client Unit (TCCU) office will be closed on Friday, July 1, 2022, however, the TCCU production support will be operating on an “after hours” schedule during this time. The exchange rates…

Clients Affected: All clients and service providers who transmit trade data using EDI, eManifest Portal, CERS Portal The Technical Commercial Client Unit (TCCU) office will be closed on Friday, July 1st, 2022, however, the TCCU production support will be operating on an “after hours” schedule during…

Canada's small business confidence over the short and long-term fell again in June. CFIB's Business Barometer® Short-term Index, based on 3-month forward expectations for business performance, declined to 54.4, a monthly drop of almost five points. The long-term optimism index, which is based on a…

Le texte français suit le texte anglais. The CSCB is pleased that we are able to continue our support of members and their families by offering three scholarships. The CSCB National and the CSCB Guy Graveline scholarships are for those students that are just beginning their post secondary education…

The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) has today initiated a normal value review (review) to update the normal values and export prices applicable to certain carbon steel fasteners (fasteners) originating in or exported from the Separate Customs Territory of Taiwan, Penghu, Kinmen and Matsu…

Customs Tariff T2022-3 will be in effect tomorrow, July 1 st 2022 with changes to reflect the updates outlined in Customs Notice 22-13.

Chapter 02 was published to : i) add a registration type and modify the import conditions for the following HS codes with the end uses “Human consumption”, “In transit through Canada” and “Other end uses” and the miscellaneous codes “Fully marked” and “Unstamped” originating from France and Hungary…

CARM Client Support (CCS) RE: Daily Notices (DN) Schedule for Canada Day Due to the Canada Day holiday, the Daily Notices (DN) schedule will be as follows: Transactions submitted Friday, July 1, Saturday, July 2 and Sunday, July 3 will appear on the Daily Notice o f Monday, July 4 2022. Thank you…

Le texte français suit le texte anglais. 1. This notice is to inform that Customs Notice N-179 has been revoked. The following will serve as a guideline to the current policy with regard to the classification of festive articles under heading 95.05 until a customs D Memorandum can be published. 2…