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Who isn’t thinking about what all this means to their business and its bottom line? This year’s conference venue in Mexico provides us with a unique opportunity to compare notes and strategies with our North American colleagues. Join us at our National Conference in Puerto Vallarta, where we, along…

The Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC) has been pushing the Treasury Board to sign our new collective agreement for the Border Services (FB) group this month. As of this morning, the Treasury Board has confirmed that the date of signature will be July 3 rd, 2018. Once the collective agreement…

1. The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) wishes to advise of an amendment to the January 1, 2018 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, 2018 and contain changes to the IT…

The House of Commons trade committee will be back at work later today with a special meeting that has one major aim — demonstrating the broad economic pain of the Trump administration's crushing steel and aluminum tariffs. The committee will hear nearly four hours of testimony from a dozen witnesses…

Decision and reasons issued Tuesday, May 15, 2018 IN THE MATTER OF an appeal heard on March 27, 2018, pursuant to section 67 of the Customs Act, R.S.C., 1985, c. 1 (2nd Supp.); AND IN THE MATTER OF a decision of the President of the Canada Border Services Agency, dated June 27, 2017, with respect to…

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)…

Health Canada has posted four new Consumer Product Enforcement Summary Reports: Cribs, Cradles and Bassinets Report: the purpose of this Cyclical Enforcement (CE) project was to verify industry's compliance of bassinets which are subject to the Cribs, Cradles and Bassinets Regulations. Toys Report…

A) Chapter 03 was published to modify the import conditions for the following HS codes. NO VERSION CHANGE 03.01 - Live fish. 03.02 - Fish, fresh or chilled, excluding fish fillets and other fish meat of heading No. 03.04. 03.03 - Fish, frozen, excluding fish fillets and other fish meat of heading No…

Clients Affected: All importers, brokers and Service Providers A new Chapter for the CBSA’s Electronic Commerce Client Requirements Document has been released: Chapter 24, containing the Accounts Receivable Ledger Daily Notice and Statement of Account maps, version 3.6, dated May 2018 (which were…

The second Designate Quiz of 2018 is currently available. You have until 2 p.m. ET on Thursday, June 28, 2018 to submit your answers online. To access the quiz, you must login to your CSCB account, then click on 1. My CCS -> 2. My CCS Quizzes -> 3. Select the quiz. 2018 Quiz Schedule Available Due…

The second Designate Quiz of 2018 is currently available. You have until 2 p.m. ET on Thursday, June 28, 2018 to submit your answers online. To access the quiz, you must login to your CSCB account, then click on 1. My CCS -> 2. My CCS Quizzes -> 3. Select the quiz. 2018 Quiz Schedule Available Due…

States will be able to force more people to pay sales tax when they make online purchases under a Supreme Court decision Thursday that will leave shoppers with lighter wallets but is a big financial win for states. Consumers can expect to see sales tax charged on more online purchases — likely over…

Harley-Davidson, up against spiralling costs from tariffs, will begin shifting the production of motorcycles headed for Europe from the U.S. to factories overseas. The European Union on Friday began rolling out tariffs on American imports like bourbon, peanut butter and orange juice. The EU tariffs…

The European Union is enforcing $3.4 billion US in tariffs on U.S. products as of Friday in retaliation to duties the Trump administration has put on European steel and aluminum. The goods targeted include typical American products like bourbon, peanut butter, and orange juice, in a way that seems…

The Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC) has been pushing the Treasury Board to sign our new collective agreement for the Border Services (FB) group this month. While there has been some dialogue with the employer, we do not yet have a firm date committed to by the government. If we do not have…