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1. The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) wishes to advise of an amendment to the January 16, 2017 version of the Departmental Consolidation of the Customs Tariff. 2. Statistics Canada has made the following changes: Classification Number Change Type 0702.00.99.11 Delete 0702.00.99.12 Delete 0702…

Quebec members will be very excited to learn that planning for this year’s regional conference is well underway. The 2017 Quebec Regional Conference will take place on Thursday, May 4 th at Palais des Congrès de Montréal. Stay tuned for more details about conference and hotel registration!

CFIA have provided this document for distribution to Customs Brokers. It is a reminder to brokers who clear any kind of meat shipments through the NISC that require inspection with an official meat inspection certificate (OMIC).

British Columbia members will be very excited to learn that planning for this year’s regional conference is well underway. The 2017 BC Regional Conference and Annual General Meeting will take place on Thursday, April 27 th at the Westin Wall Center Vancouver Airport. In addition, on April 26 th…

Designates are reminded that the first quiz of 2017 is due next Thursday, April 6th at 2pm EDT. As always, the quiz is worth ten professional development points toward maintenance of the CCS designation, and is FREE of charge. To access the quiz, you must login to your CSCB account. If you do not…

A) Chapter 01 was published to add the end use “In transit through Canada” to the following HS codes originating from all countries except the United States. 01.01.21.2001.01 - Mares over 2 years old. 01.01.21.2001.03 - Foals less than 2 years old. This created a requirement version change to the…

The system issue reported below has now been resolved. All systems are functioning normally. End Date/Time 2017-03-29 03 :30 ET Clients Affected: All clients and service providers who transmit trade data using EDI and Portal. We are experiencing delays in processing some EDI and portal messages…

End Date/Time 2017-03-28 14:29 ET The system issue reported earlier today has now been resolved.

Please be advised that the Canada Border Service Agency (CBSA) has identified delays in processing Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) messages. If you require a release for a shipment that has already arrived, or about to arrive at the border please fax documents to (613) 773-9999. The National…

Start Date/Time 2017-03-28 12 :30 ET End Date/Time No estimated time of resolution (ETR) Clients Affected: All clients and service providers who transmit trade data using EDI and Portal. We are experiencing delays in processing some EDI and portal messages. There is a backlog in processing data. We…

Please be advised the CBSA is continuing to investigate the outage reported below. Clients Affected: All clients and service providers who transmit trade data through the Customs Internet Gateway (CIG). We are currently unable to process inbound and outbound data for clients using the CIG. During…

Please be advised that the March 30, 2017, Freight Forwarder Implementation Call (open forum) is postponed and will be rescheduled at a later date. The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) understands that freight forwarders have outstanding questions about eManifest requirements and implementation…

As you may be aware, the Canada Border Service Agency (CBSA) recently conducted a consultation with stakeholders regarding its disclosure practices with respect to the Special Import Measures Act (SIMA). I am writing today to inform you that a summary of the submissions is now available here. We are…

The following messages were distributed by CBSA during the evening of March 27. 7:15 PM: Clients Affected: All clients and service providers who transmit trade data using EDI and Portal. We are experiencing delays in processing some EDI and portal messages. There is a backlog in processing data. We…

Clients Affected: All importers and brokers who submit their B3s and AO notification of release queries using the CCS/CADEX system. Please be advised that we experienced problems processing B3s and AO notification of release queries on March 27, 2017 between 11:00am ET and 2:00pm ET. If you have not…

Clients Affected: All clients and service providers who transmit trade data through the Customs Internet Gateway (CIG). We are currently unable to process inbound and outbound data for clients using the CIG. During this time, the CBSA is unable to receive all incoming data or send outbound messages…