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As part of ongoing efforts to improve client service please be advised that the Canadian Food Inspection Agency will be performing network maintenance on Sunday January 22nd, 2017 from 5:00AM-7:00AM (EST). Consequently, the following CFIA service may not be available: AIRS Verification Service (AVS)…

Canada and other free traders must be prepared to play hardball with U.S. protectionists The new anti-free-trade administration of Donald Trump hasn't even taken over the White House and it appears incoming secretary of commerce Wilbur Ross is already preparing to send Canada a list of demands. This…

The next Webinar will be held on Thursday, January 19, 2017 from 1:30-3:00pm ET. Agenda items for the call include: Remaining questions from the January 5th call To participate in the Webinar, please follow these instructions: Go to https://gts-ee.webex.com/gts-ee/j.php?MTID…

The following is to inform you of an update to the “List of Establishments Approved to Export Live or Raw Molluscan Shellfish from the Netherlands to Canada”. The following establishment has been added: Bonton Products B.V. This document is available on our website at: http://inspection.gc.ca/food…

Daniel Kiselbach, of Deloite Tax Law, has provided the CSCB with a paper entitled “ Could President-elect Trump Withdraw from NAFTA?” Mr. Kiselbach has agreed that this paper can be shared with CSCB members and we thank him for doing so. Comments can be sent to the CSCB at [email protected]

Ordinarily, payments of the Statement of Account (SOA) must be received at CBSA payment offices by 16:30 local time on the last business day of the month. The CBSA recognizes that certain months of the year have fewer days for clients to arrange for payment, therefore should the payments for SOAs…

1. The purpose of this notice is to advise that: (a) effective December 31, 2016 the company located at 2210 Parkdale Avenue, Brockville, Ontario has surrendered their “BW” type highway sufferance warehouse licence. (b) the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) has decided not to advertise for a new…

Billionaire investor Wilbur Ross, chosen by U.S. president-elect Donald Trump to reshape U.S. trade policy, has informed Canada that rules of origin and independent dispute tribunals will be central to talks aimed at resetting the North American free-trade agreement. Canadian officials say the…

The ACROSS EDI release requests received report for December 2016 is available on the CSCB website ( download). The national EDI percent was 96.50.

Further to the CSCB notice of January 9 th, Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) has advised that the new online reporting system is now available at the ECCC Single Window Information Manager (SWIM). To access SWIM, and subsequently access the online reporting system, please follow this…

Conducted twice a year since 1999, our Trade Confidence Index (TCI) is a pulse check of Canadian exporters’ level of confidence and their expectations of international trade opportunities over the next six months. Fall 2016 survey highlights: The overall Trade Confidence Index (TCI) score fell to…

Britain will leave the EU's single market when it exits the European Union, Prime Minister Theresa May said on Tuesday, putting an end to speculation that London might try to seek a "soft Brexit". In a long-awaited speech in which she sought to define the country's future as a global player that…

Atlantic Canada's seafood industry is starting 2017 with a boost for the bottom line thanks to lower tariffs on seafood entering the booming China market. The Jan. 1, 2017, tariff cuts announced just before New Year's Day by China's ministry of commerce will benefit about a quarter of Canada's…

The Statement of Reasons was issued Thursday, November 3, 2016: http://www.tcce-citt.gc.ca/en/node/7910

REMINDER: The Consumer Product Safety Program of Health Canada would like to invite you to a trilateral webinar for industry on U.S., Canadian, and Mexican Textile Compliance. This webinar is meant to provide manufacturers, importers, and exporters of textiles an overview of the relevant product…

The following is a message from Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada. On December 30, 2016, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced an extension to the comment period for its public process to redefine the "healthy" nutrient content claim for food labeling. See the link to the notice in…