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Canada is officially in a recession that's been caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the C.D. Howe Institute's Business Cycle Council declared Friday. The council, which monitors recessions and recoveries in Canada, said the economy peaked in February, just before drastic measures to slow the spread of…

Revisions to TRQ Application Process: Simplification of Documents, Temporary Administration Changes and New Contact Information Simplification of Documents As initially announced in October 2019, in the light of the increased number of tariff rate quotas (TRQs) under Canada’s trade agreements…

The WCO continues its close cooperation with the World Health Organization (WHO) to contribute to the rapid cross-border movement of medical supplies and medicines needed urgently during the current COVID-19 global pandemic. Following the coordinated response adopted by the two organizations, a WHO…

Economic forecasts aren’t the least of COVID-19’s victims. Never has any human being seen such widespread and devastating revisions to the global growth outlook as we’ve seen in the past few weeks—it has no historical peer. Radical adjustment of forecasts is bad enough, but to make matters worse…

The federal government has betrayed Canada's dairy processors by allowing the United States to activate the new North American trade deal on July 1 — a month earlier than the industry was expecting, the Opposition leader in the Senate said Tuesday. Sen. Don Plett warned the country's 470 processing…

It took decades to build the rules-based trading system. A few frantic days compounded historic strains on it. The modern history of global trade is being written at warp speed, with a dizzying series of developments now testing the international trading system. What the rules-based order looks like…

Travel into Canada is dramatically lower compared to this time last year, as a result of the ban on non-essential travel imposed on March 21 due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. According to a media release from the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA), travel volume during the week of April 20 to…

CN asked us to share this message with our subscribers. CN is pleased to announce that we are the first North American rail carrier to conduct operational testing of the Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) Electronic Export Manifest (EEM) with US Customs and Border Protection (CBP). What is ACE…

Start Time: 2020-04-29 / 07:20 ET End Date / Time: 2020-04-29 / 11:30 ET The problem reported below has now been resolved. All systems are functioning normally. Clients Affected: All clients and service providers who transmit trade data using EDI and Portal. We are currently experiencing a full EDI…

Notice received: Wednesday 2020-04-29 9:21 AM ET Resolved: 2020-04-29 12:17 PM ET Please be advised that the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA)’s Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) has been restored. If you require a release for a shipment that has already arrived, or about to arrive at the…

The Quebec government has announced the reopening of certain sectors of the economy. Additional information is available in French and in English.

Chapter 01 was published to change the release recommendation from “Refuse entry” to “Refer to CFIA - Veterinary inspection” for the following HS code originating from Ukraine. 01.06.41.2104 - Honeybee queens. This created a requirement version change for the following HS codes originating from all…

Changes to The Single Window Initiative (SWI) Integrated Import Declaration (IID) Regulated Commodities Data Element Matching Criteria The CBSA is pleased to announce that Trade Chain Partners can now use the SWI IID Regulated Commodities Data Element Matching Criteria to identify commodities…