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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…

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…

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…

CBSA has published a new D Memorandum, D17-2-4, on the preparation and presentation of blanket B2s. The CBSA did not ask for feedback on a draft version of this memorandum; however, they have agreed that they will review comments that are provided post-publication. We understand that not all regions…

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…

Inquiry No. NQ-2016-002 - Statement of Reasons issued Thursday, January 19, 2017 http://www.citt.gc.ca/en/node/7914 Reference No. GC-2016-001 - Statement of Reasons issued Thursday, January 19, 2017 http://www.citt.gc.ca/en/node/7915

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 -…

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…

Clients Affected: All importers and brokers who submit their B3s and AO notification of release queries using the CCS/CADEX system For maintenance purposes, the CCS/CADEX system will be unavailable on Saturday January 21, 2017 from 05:00 to 05:30 (ET) AND Sunday January 22, 2017 from 05:00 to 05:30…

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…

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.