Trade News

Notice received: Friday 2018-10-19 3:25 PM EDT Clients Affected: All clients and service providers who transmit trade data using EDI. Please note, you may experience problems with outbound processing of EDI messages. Therefore trade data is being received and processed by the CBSA but unable to send…

The third and last Designate Quiz of 2018 is now available. You have until 2 p.m. ET on Thursday, October 25, 2018 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 CCS designation, and is free of…

As part of ongoing efforts to improve client service please be advised that the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) will be performing network maintenance on Sunday, October 21st, 2018 from 3:00 am until 7:00 am (ET). Consequently, the following services may not be available: Digital Document…

eManifest Portal Maintenance Start Date/Time End Date/Time Clients Affected: 2018-10-20 / 05 :00 ET 2018-10-20 / 08 :00 ET 2018-10-20 / 05 :40 ET 2018-10-20 / 16 :00 ET All clients who submit their trade data using the eManifest portal. Description: Saturday October 20, 2018 from 05:00 to 05:40 (ET)…

Clients Affected: All importers and brokers who use EDI to transmit their trade data. Further to Customs Notice CN18-19 pertaining to Cannabis Customs Excise Duty Procedures please note the following for completion of the CADEX formatted records: 3. The table below is a list of the province…

Notice received: Thursday 2018-10-18 1130 AM EDT The problem outlined below is now resolved. ***** Clients Affected: All clients and service providers who transmit trade data using EDI Please note that CBSA is receiving and processing EDI inbound data. However, there is a delay in sending outbound…

The United States announced Wednesday that it is preparing to pull out of an international postal treaty that allows China to ship packages to America at discounted rates. The move would escalate a trade dispute with China. President Donald Trump argues that the 144-year-old Universal Post Union…

Notice received: Thursday 2018-10-18 7:57 AM EDT Clients Affected: All clients and service providers who transmit trade data using EDI Please note that CBSA is receiving and processing EDI inbound data. However, there is a delay in sending outbound messages such as acknowledgements, reject messages…

1. The Cannabis Act and its regulations (not pertaining to police enforcement) are administered by Health Canada, and establish a legislative framework to provide restricted access to cannabis and control its production, distribution, sale, import, export and possession. Under the Cannabis Act, it…

The Canadian International Trade Tribunal hereby gives notice that it will, pursuant to subsection 76.03(3) of the Special Import Measures Act (SIMA), initiate an expiry review of its finding made on November 19, 2013, in Inquiry No. NQ‑2013-003, concerning the dumping and subsidizing of silicon…

Government decides not to exempt artistic works from 20-year copyright extension The broad cultural exemption Canada fought to keep in the renegotiated North American free trade deal will allow for Canadian content rules in digital media. But government sources say the Trudeau government will not…

Please be advised that the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) has updated the List of establishments approved to export live or raw molluscan shellfish from France to Canada. The following establishment has been added to the list: Huitres Geay The updated list is available at: http://inspection…

Morneau says he wants financial aid to flow faster to steel industry but process must be followed The federal government has so far exempted 50 Canadian companies from surtaxes imposed last summer when Ottawa slapped retaliatory tariffs on U.S. steel and aluminum imports, Finance Minister Bill…

Notice received: Wednesday 2018-10-17 11:07 AM EDT The problem outlined below is now resolved. ***** CFIA is currently experiencing a system outage. The CFIA is unable to receive all incoming data or send outbound messages such as reject messages and notices. We are working with CFIA to resolve this…

1. The purpose of this notice is to inform importers and customs brokers on the calculation of the amounts of cannabis duty and additional cannabis duty to be imposed on packaged cannabis products, as per legislative changes to the Excise Act, 2001, when importing these goods into Canada. 2…

The WCO has published the 87 th edition of WCO News, the Organization’s flagship magazine aimed at the Customs community, which provides a selection of informative articles that touch the international Customs and trade landscape. This edition features a special dossier on the 2018 WCO Council…

Notice received: Wednesday 2018-10-17 10:17 AM EDT Clients Affected: All clients and service providers who transmit EDI trade data to CFIA. CFIA is currently experiencing a system outage. The CFIA is unable to receive all incoming data or send outbound messages such as reject messages and notices…