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U.S. Challenging Canadian Measures Discriminating Against Imported Wine

The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative has launched a World Trade Organization case challenging regulations maintained by the Canadian province of British Columbia that exclude imported wine from being sold on regular grocery store shelves. USTR asserts that these “discriminatory regulations…

Trump formally pulls U.S. out of TPP

The new U.S. president made good on one of his campaign promises Monday, formally withdrawing the United States from the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a trade deal negotiated by his predecessor but never ratified. Donald Trump signed an executive order to pull out of TPP a little before noon ET…

Public consultation on new rules to strengthen food safety

The Government of Canada launched a public consultation on new rules to strengthen food safety. The proposed Safe Food for Canadians Regulations would better protect Canadian families by putting a greater emphasis on preventing food safety risks for all foods imported into Canada or sold across…

Canada Gazette - Notices and Proposed Regulations

The following was published in Part I of the Canada Gazette on January 14 and 21, 2017. Canada Border Services Agency Special Import Measures Act Concrete reinforcing bar — Decision Canadian International Trade Tribunal Appeal Notice No. HA-2016-021 Commencement of inquiry Concrete reinforcing bar…

CFIA Notice to Registered Seed Establishments

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) has posted an update to its website about the requirements, tools and programs that are of interest to Registered Seed Establishments. Import requirements are listed as follows: Weed Seeds Order (WSO), 2016 came into force on November 1, 2016. All seed sold…

Trump team says it won't support border adjustment tax

The incoming Trump administration is ruling out an across-the-board border tax as it prepares a sweeping new trade agenda that includes renegotiating the North American free-trade agreement with Canada and Mexico. ... Steven Mnuchin, treasury secretary nominee, outlined the new administration’s…

Traffic Operations at Pac Hwy

Please note that as of January 23, 2017, Traffic Operations at the Pac Hwy (Port 813) will move into Commercial Building A (old warehouse) for two weeks, due to construction. Hours of operations in Building A will remain unchanged, Monday to Friday 0800-1800. Some of the commercial staff will be…

CFIA Scheduled Network Maintenance, 21 January

As part of ongoing efforts to improve client service please be advised that Shared Services Canada (SSC) will be performing network maintenance on Saturday January 21st, 2017 from 06:00AM to 12:00PM (EST). Consequently, the following CFIA services may not be available: Automated Import Reference…

D14-1-7, Assessment and Payment of Duties Under the Special Import Measures Act

This memorandum explains an importer’s liability for the payment of provisional, anti-dumping and countervailing duties under the Special Import Measures Act (SIMA). It also explains the procedure for posting security with respect to provisional duty as well as the exchange rate for calculations…

CBSA Scheduled Maintenance, 22 January

Please note that as part of the Canada Border Services Agency's (CBSA) ongoing efforts to improve client service, a maintenance window of the production database is scheduled for Sunday, January 22nd, 2017 between 04:30AM and 06:00AM (EST) as well as between 07:00 and 08:30 (EST) The CFIA Electronic…

Canada cuts $48M in tariffs to boost food manufacturing

As the incoming Trump administration talks about piling on new tariffs to discourage imports and protect American jobs, the Canadian government quietly moved in the opposite direction over the holidays: eliminating tariffs. Why? To support Canadian jobs. A customs tariff order published Dec. 28 in…

CFIA AIRS Updates, 20 January

A) Chapter 44 was published to: i) modify the description of the following HS codes. 44.20.10.0001 - Wooden components - without bark and less than or equal to 1.5 cm in thickness. 44.20.10.0003 - Wooden components - without bark, exceeding 1.5 cm in thickness. 44.20.10.0005 - Wooden components -…

CBSA Message (TCC17-014) – EDI Scheduled Maintenance Outage, 22 January

Clients Affected: All clients and service providers who transmit trade data using EDI. For maintenance purposes, all EDI applications will be unavailable on Sunday, January 22, 2017 from 04:30 to 06:00 ET as well as between 07:00 and 08:30 ET. This includes: all incoming data or outbound messages…

CFIA EDI Scheduled Network Maintenance, 22 January

As part of ongoing efforts to improve client service please be advised that the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) will be performing Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) maintenance on Saturday January 21st, 2017 from 1:00PM until 3:00PM (EST). Consequently, the CFIA response to EDI declarations…