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Start Date / Time: 2020-06-28 / 02:45 ET End Date / Time: 2020-06-28 / 05:15 ET Clients Affected: All clients and service providers who transmit trade data using the Integrated Import Declaration (IID) and Document Image Functionality (DIF) For maintenance purposes, there will be delays for clients…

This memorandum outlines the telephone reporting procedures that general aviation and private boat operators use to report to the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) when entering Canada. In Brief This memorandum was expanded in September 2018 to include guidelines and requirements related to CBSA…

This memorandum explains the Canada Border Services Agency’s (CBSA) interpretation of the term “For domestic purposes” under several tariff items in headings 94.01 and 94.03 in the Customs Tariff. In Brief This new memorandum explains the Canada Border Services Agency’s (CBSA) interpretation of the…

Le texte français suit le texte anglais. The second Designate Quiz of 2020 is now available. You have until 2 p.m. EDT on Thursday, July 2, 2020 to submit your responses to the CSCB. The quiz must be completed online. The quiz is worth 10 professional development points towards maintenance of the…

Due to the unprecedented events of 2020, the CSCB is pleased to be offering an additional free CCS/CTCS designate quiz to support your professional development. In order to accommodate the addition of a fourth free opportunity to obtain points/credits during 2020 we will offering our third quiz one…

Notice received: Thursday 2020-06-25 12:07 PM ET Clients Affected: All clients and service providers who transmit trade data using EDI. UPDATE Goods being released on Wednesday, June 24, 2020 in the province of Québec will be deemed to be released Thursday, June 25, 2020. Goods released in other…

As part of CFIA's ongoing efforts to improve client service please be advised that CFIA will be performing network maintenance Sunday, June 28, 2020, from 3 am (EST) to 7 am (EST). Consequently, the following services may not be available for this period: Automated Import Reference System (AIRS)…

If the Trump administration buys the argument that Canadian aluminum exports have surged and slaps a 10 per cent tariff back on products imported from Canada, the move could end up hurting Americans instead, warns the head of the association representing Canada's aluminum producers. "Canada stands…

Opening of the Application Period for the CUSMA Supply-Managed TRQs (Deadline extended until June 27) I would like to inform you that, subsequent to Canada’s April 3, 2020 ratification of the Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement (CUSMA), the Minister of Small Business, Export Promotion and…

Notice received: Wednesday 2020-06-24 10:58 AM ET Clients Affected: All clients and service providers who transmit trade data using EDI. Goods being released on Wednesday, June 24, 2020 in the province of Québec will be deemed to be released Thursday, June 25, 2020. Goods released in other provinces…

Both our IT and National Targeting Centre teams continue working to address the TITAN outages. COVID-19 Commercial Update to Industry Stakeholders, June 22, 2020 COVID-19 Rapport commercial aux intervenants de l’industrie Le 22 juin 2020 Nos deux équipes de la TI et du Centre national de ciblage…

On June 3, 2020, Global Affairs Canada (GAC) published the Notice to Exporters, Serial #993 Skim Milk Powder and Milk Protein Concentrate Export Thresholds. We wish to inform you that GAC has made the following clarifications: The production of liquid MPC does not count towards the market share…

The United States is planning to re-impose tariffs on aluminum imports from Canada, Bloomberg reported late on Monday, citing people familiar with the matter. If Canada declines to impose export restrictions, the United States will announce on Friday the re-imposition of 10 per cent tariffs on…