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Meet Your New Board and Executive Team!

The CSCB’s Board of Directors for the coming year is in place and ready to tackle the challenges and opportunities ahead. With a combination of directors elected to the Board at the Annual General Meeting held on September 19 (from the Nominating Committee slate of candidates), and directors heading…

CBSA Message (TCC19-096) - EDI/Portal SCHEDULED Maintenance Outages

Notice received: Friday 2019-09-20 11:10 AM ET eManifest Portal Maintenance Start Date/Time End Date/Time Clients Affected: 2019-09-21 / 05:00 ET 2019-09-22 / 05:00 ET 2019-09-21 / 06:00 ET 2019-09-22 / 06:00 ET 2019-09-21 / 05:30 ET 2019-09-22 / 05:30 ET 2019-09-21 / 07:00 ET 2019-09-22 / 07:00 ET…

D10-15-26, Goods to be employed in a Noxious Atmosphere

This memorandum outlines the CBSA’s interpretation of the expression “to be employed in a noxious atmosphere” throughout the Customs Tariff. In Brief This memorandum has been updated to further specify how to meet the conditional relief requirement “to be employed in a noxious atmosphere” and…

CBSA Message: TCC19-095 -Changes to The SWI IID Regulated Commodities Data Element Matching Criteria / TCC19-095- Changements aux Critères de correspondance des éléments de données pour la DII de marchandises réglementées sous l'initiative IGU

Clients Affected: All importers and brokers using the IID 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 regulated by a particular Participating Government Department or Agency (PGA)…

BMSB fumigation requirements for Australia and New Zealand

This is further to our previous September 5, 2019 message. Over the past two months, Canadian officials have been working closely with the Australian Department of Agriculture (DA) to minimize export issues and increasing awareness for Canadian companies of the new measures in place for BMSB. We are…
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Use of IID - Update

The CSCB recently wrote to CBSA with questions regarding use of the IID. Following are these questions and CBSA’s responses. Please note: Once a firm date for decommissioning of certain legacy release options is announced, members will be advised. CSCB: We understand that CBSA is giving priority to…

CFIA-AIRS Updates September 19, 2019

A) Chapter 06 was published to change the release recommendation from “Refer to CFIA-NISC” to “Approved” originating from the United States. 06.04.20.0045 - Foliage, branches - fresh. 06.04.20.0046.01 Foliage, branches - Fresh - Mulberry (Morus spp.). 06.04.20.0046.02 Foliage, branches - Fresh -…

Customs Notice 19-20, General Import Permit 83 Aluminum Products

Purpose and Coverage 1. The purpose of this Notice is to inform importers of the aluminum import monitoring program. Effective September 1, 2019, the Governor in Council has added certain aluminum products to the Import Control List (ICL) as item 83 and the Minister of Foreign Affairs has issued…

CFIA-AIRS Updates September 18, 2019

A) Chapter 01 was published to: i) change the release recommendation from “Refuse entry” to “Refer to CFIA - veterinary inspection” for the following HS codes originating from Poland. 01.06.39.2098 - Pigeons and doves over 3 days old. 01.06.39.2099 - Pigeons and doves less than 3 days old. This…

[US] CBP provides trade policy guidance on Drawback Claims under ACE

A complete drawback claim shall consist of a successful claim acceptance in ACE and the successful upload of mandatory documents into the Digital Image System (DIS). Documents must be uploaded within 24 hours of claim acceptance in order to maintain the claim date generated by the ACE submission…
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StraitLink Global Logistics Inc. - CSCB Membership Application

The CSCB has received an application for membership from StraitLink Global Logistics Inc. The CSCB contact is John Vella, V.P Customs Operations, who is also the qualified officer. The licence was issued in December 2017 for Mississauga. The contact information follows: StraitLink Global Logistics…

USMCA language ‘pretty exciting’ for supply chain professionals

Negotiations among the three nations to replace NAFTA concluded in September 2018. Mexico has signed the USMCA into law, and Canada is close to ratifying it. In the United States, Congress has yet to take up the free trade agreement. “There is one more major step in the process, and that is when the…

Statistics Canada reports manufacturing sales fell 1.3% in July

Statistics Canada says manufacturing sales fell 1.3 per cent to $57.2 billion in July as sales in the primary metal and motor vehicle industries moved lower. The agency says sales were down in 11 industries in July, representing 66.8 per cent of total manufacturing sales. Economists had expected a…

As Pressure to Advance USMCA Builds, House Democrats Hold Firm

Democrats in the House of Representatives are holding firm to their position that several improvements are needed to the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement before they would approve implementing legislation. The White House and others are beginning to call more frequently and loudly for Congress to…

[US] CBP seeks to expand e-commerce pilot participation

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is seeking to expand industry participation in its electronic pilot program to collect advance data related to e-commerce shipments with import values of less than the $800 de minimis. The so-called Section 321 E-Commerce Data Pilot was announced by CBP on…

Canada Gazette - Notices and Proposed Regulations

The following was published in Part I of the Canada Gazette on September 14, 2019. Canadian International Trade Tribunal Appeals Notice No. HA-2019-014 Expiry of order Certain fasteners Order Thermoelectric container

Update: CFIA Outage

Please be advised that the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) web services, that went down around noon yesterday, have now been restored. Automated Import Reference System (AIRS) and the Automated Shipment Inspection Status Search Tool (ASISST) web services are now available. If you require…