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The Great Hesitation

Global growth is just about to take off. To most, that sounds like some kind of sick joke, about as likely as Linus’ Great Pumpkin showing up last Monday. We’ve already gone through the ritual mid-year writedown of economic forecasts, and pundits are now slicing points off next year’s markers. Seven…

CBSA Message (TCC16-151) – EDI Scheduled Maintenance Outage, 6 November

Clients Affected: All clients and service providers who transmit trade data using EDI. In order to complete the time change from Eastern Daylight Time to Standard Time, all Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) applications will be unavailable for 120 minutes on Sunday, November 6, 2016 from 1:30…

Business Barometer: Confidence stumbles in October

Canada’s small business confidence dropped another point in October, falling for the second straight month to 57.7 according to the Canadian Federation of Independent Business’s Business Barometer® Index. “While the overall results were relatively stable this month, there are a few underlying…

CFIA AIRS Updates, 4 November

A) Chapter 15 was published to add the following OGD extension. 15.15.30.7200 - Castor oil - unrefined This created a requirement version change for the following HS codes. 15.05.00.1411 - Lanolin. 15.14.19 - Low erucic acid rape or colza oil and its fractions: Other. 15.14.91 - Other: Crude oil. 15…

Update to the Meat Hygiene Manual of Procedures – Ukraine

Please be advised that the Ukraine has recently approved the following Canadian federally registered cold storage establishments for export of the meat products listed below to Ukraine: Establishments S234, S748, S729 for pork products. Establishments S730, S239, S757, S772, S404, S217, S224, S206…

Peace Bridge Lane Closure

Today the Buffalo and Fort Erie Public Bridge Authority (PBA) announced that the Peace Bridge will be reduced to two lanes between November 15, 2016 and May 15, 2017, in order to accommodate construction related to the ongoing $100 million Peace Bridge rehabilitation. In addition, the Authority has…

CBSA Message (TCC16-149) – First Quarter Interest Rate 2017

Clients Affected: All importers and brokers who submit their B3s and AO notification of release queries using the CCS/CADEX system. The annual interest rate for the first quarter of 2017 (January 1 st, 2017- March 31 st, 2017) will be 0.5005.

CFIA Scheduled Network Maintenance, 4-5 November

As part of ongoing efforts to improve client service please be advised that Shared Services Canada (SSC) will be performing network maintenance on Friday November 4th, 2016 from 8:00PM until Saturday, November 5th, 2016 23:59PM (EST). Consequently, the following CFIA services will not be available…

CFIA AIRS Updates, 3 November

A) Chapter 04 was published to change the release recommendation from "Refuse Entry" to "Refer to CFIA - NISC" for the following HS codes with the end uses "Further processing" and "Human consumption" originating from the European Union. 04.08.11.0273.01 - 100% dried egg yolk 04.08.11.0273.02 -…

Export of meat to China

Please be advised that effective October 31 , 2016, the Certification and Accreditation Administration of the People's Republic of China (CNCA) has removed the suspension on establishments 10 and 468 for pork products slaughtered and/or processed after November 01, 2016. As of November 01, 2016, the…

Canada Amends Sanctions Against North Korea

Sanctions related to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) have been enacted under the United Nations Act and the Special Economic Measures Act in order to pressure the DPRK to abandon all existing weapons of mass destruction programs, in response to the DPRK’s nuclear tests and ballistic…

Canada Gazette - Official Regulations

The following was published in Part II of the Canada Gazette on October 19 and November 2, 2016. Domestic Substances List — Order 2016-87-10-01 Amending Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999 SOR/2016-267 04/10/16 Export and Import of Hazardous Waste and Hazardous Recyclable Material…

Canada Gazette - Notices and Proposed Regulations

The following was published in Part I of the Canada Gazette on October 15, 22, 29, 2016. Canadian International Trade Tribunal Appeals Notice No. HA-2016-015 Notice No. HA-2016-016 Commencement of inquiries — Revised notice Gypsum board Determination Concrete reinforcing bar Finding Welded large…

Freight Forwarder Implementation Webinar - November 03, 2016

As part of an ongoing commitment to communicate eManifest information, the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) is continuing with our regular eManifest Freight Forwarder Implementation Webinars. The next Webinar will be held on Thursday, November 03, 2016 from 1:30-3:00pm ET. Agenda items are being…

Customs Valuation Seminar in Mississauga - Last Chance to Register!

Today is the last chance to register for tomorrow's CSCB Toronto Region education seminar on Customs Valuation - Back to Basics on Transaction Value. Importers and customs brokers cannot afford to miscalculate the customs value or value for duty on imports into Canada. Incorrect calculation of the…