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Monday July 1, 2019 is a holiday. The Bureau's offices will be closed Monday, July 1, 2019 and no officers or Help Desk staff will be available. The EICS and EXCOL systems will be available during normal hours.

1. The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) wishes to advise of an amendment to the January 14, 2019 version of the Departmental Consolidation of the Customs Tariff. 2. Rate of duty reductions included in the Canada-EFTA Free Trade Agreement are effective July 1, 2019 and contain changes to the IT…

The second Designate Quiz of 2019 is now available. You have until 2 p.m. ET on July 4, 2019 to submit your answers online. All designates who obtain 20 CCS points or 10 CTCS credits by July 15, 2019 AND register for the draw are eligible to win one of two trips to the CSCB National Conference in…

Finance Canada has once again amended the list of goods that are subject to a remission of surtax (countermeasures). These changes were made pursuant to the Order Amending the United States Surtax Remission Order, No. 2019-2 and entered into force on June 25, 2019. Please note that the actual order…

Agriculture Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau said today the RCMP has been called in to investigate the origins of a pork shipment to China that arrived with a fake Canadian export certificate. Bibeau said the source of the meat and the false certificate remain unknown, and that Canadian and Chinese…

CBSA’s Program Evaluation team would like to have as many responses as possible to their survey of trade chain partners on the Single Window initiative. Tomorrow is the final day for submissions so if you have not already completed the survey, please let us know and we will send it to you.

Clients Affected: All importers, brokers and services providers who receive accounting statements via electronic data interchange (EDI). Due to the holiday weekend, the Daily Notices (DN) schedule will be as follows: Transactions submitted from Saturday June 29th to Tuesday July 2nd will appear on…

The message below, originally released on 19 June 2019, has had the dates amended and GAC has confirmed that the amount of 14KG is correct. WTO Tariff Rate Quota (TRQ) commitment for food preparations containing more than 10 per cent but less than 50 per cent on a dry weight basis of milk solids…

Chapter 01 was published to modify the import conditions for the following HS codes with the end uses “In transit through Canada” and “Travellers & Personal use and not for resale or distribution” originating from the United States except the state of California. NO VERSION CHANGE. 01.06.32.0000.00…

Are you an earthworm producer, distributor, importer or exporter or do you have an interest in matters related to angling, bait or vermicomposting? The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has launched a public consultation on proposed changes to the plant protection requirements for importing earthworms…

Notice received: Wednesday 2019-06-25 11:08 AM ET Clients Affected: All clients and service providers who transmit trade data using EDI. Goods being released on Monday, June 24, 2019 in the province of Quebec will be deemed to be released Tuesday, June 25, 2019. Goods released in other provinces on…

A new agreement between Canada and the United States will soon allow travellers and cargo to pre-clear customs before they leave, allowing an easier movement of people and goods crossing the border. Canadian air travellers have been able to clear customs before flying to the U.S. for decades at…

The second Designate Quiz of 2019 is now available. You have until 2 p.m. ET on July 4, 2019 to submit your answers online. All designates who obtain 20 CCS points or 10 CTCS credits by July 15, 2019 AND register for the draw are eligible to win one of two trips to the CSCB National Conference in…

Notice received: Monday 2019-04-24 2:30 PM ET As part of the GAC 125 Reno project, the Cashier's Office will be moving from 125 Sussex Drive to 200 Place du Portage this Friday, June 21. The new office will be located at C7001-C7002, 7th floor, 200 Place du Portage, Gatineau, Quebec. The fax will be…

WTO Tariff Rate Quota (TRQ) commitment for food preparations containing more than 10 per cent but less than 50 per cent on a dry weight basis of milk solids, not in retail packaging, that are classified under tariff item no. 1901.90.33 The purpose of this message is to inform importers that the 2019…

On the day the Senate rushed through legislation to temporarily suspend one of Canada's international trade obligations — citing fears of as-yet-unspecified "surges" — Donald Trump sat beside Justin Trudeau and said the current trade situation for North American steel is "very well taken care of." C…

Please be advised that the Canadian Food Inspection Agency has updated the List of establishments approved to export live or raw molluscan shellfish from France to Canada. The following establishments have been added to the list: Nouvelle Pecherie de Normandie – Aquaflor Escal Escargot D'Alsace

Under the Safe Food for Canadians Regulations (SFCR), test market provisions now apply to all foods. Test marketing food allows exemption from certain regulatory requirements, such as bilingual labelling requirements under the Food and Drug Regulations (FDR) and regulated container sizes under the…