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Friday, April 3 and Monday, April 6 are statutory holidays, and the Bureau's offices will be closed (no officers or Help Desk staff will be available). The EICS and EXCOL systems will be available during normal hours. Questions or problems can be directed to the EICS/EXCOL help desk: EICS / EXCOL…

Technical Commercial Client Unit (TCCU) office will be closed for the Easter holiday from Thursday, April 02, 2015 at 17:00 (Eastern Time) until Monday, April 06, 2015 at 08:00 (Eastern Time). On Monday, April 06, between 08:00 and 16:00 (Eastern Time), officers will be available at 1-888-957-7224…

Chapter 44 was published to change the release recommendation from "Refuse entry" to "Refer to CFIA-NISC" for the following HS code with the end use "Other end uses - imported with bark" originating from New-Zealand. 44.01.21.0121.98 - Other tree species, non tropical, non regulated - conifer - bark…

Sent by the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) Border Commercial Consultative Committee (BCCC) Secretariat on behalf of Programs and Operations Branches. This is to inform you that effective April 2, 2015, the Service Standard for processing carrier code applications will be reduced from 10…

The Canadian border crossing at Fraser on the South Klondike Highway will be under reduced hours beginning April 1. The limited hours used to be implemented only in the off-season, but the change announced by the Canadian Border Services Agency means the crossing on the route between Whitehorse and…

The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) has today initiated a re-investigation, in accordance with the Special Import Measures Act (SIMA), of the normal values, export prices and amounts of subsidy of certain steel grating originating in or exported from the People's Republic of China (China). The…

Honda Canada plans to take advantage of the still-to-be ratified free-trade agreement with the European Union to produce vehicles for export to Europe for the first time, the auto company announced Monday. Speaking at his flagship manufacturing plant, Honda CEO Jerry Chenkin said the Canada-EU trade…

a) Chapter 01 was published to change the release recommendation to "Refuse entry" for the following HS codes originating from the state of Minnesota. 01.05 - Live poultry, that is to say, fowls of the species Gallus domesticus, ducks, geese, turkeys and guinea fowls 01.06.31 - Birds of prey 01.06…

This memorandum contains the Memorandum of Understanding between Canada and the Republic of Korea concerning Uniform Regulations of Chapter Four of the Canada-Korea Free Trade Agreement (CKFTA). This memorandum is issued to publish the Memorandum of Understanding between Canada and the Republic of…

This memorandum outlines and explains the procedures for the refund of duties, goods and services tax (GST), harmonized sales tax (HST), provincial sales tax (PST), provincial tobacco and alcohol taxes, and levies under the Special Import Measures Act (SIMA) for non-commercial importations brought…

Please be advised that revised Annex-A for Uruguay is published. http://inspection.gc.ca/food/meat-and-poultry-products/manual-of-proced…

Due to an outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza in the state of Minnesota CFIA has suspended imports of all live birds including poultry and raw avian products/by products including raw pet foods from the State of Minnesota for the time being. For more information please visit our website at…

The EICS system will be temporarily unavailable this Saturday, March 28, 2015 between the hours of 09:00 and 13:00 (Eastern Time) for system maintenance. Any transactions submitted during this time will be lost.

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 March 29, 2015 from 05:30 to 11:30 AM (EST). The CFIA Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) application will be…

For maintenance purposes, the CCS/CADEX system will be unavailable on Sunday March 29, 2015 from 08:00 to 14:30 (ET). CADEX, Customs Declaration Message (CUSDEC) B3s and AO notification of release queries transmitted to the CADEX system will be affected by this outage. We will update this message if…

For maintenance purposes, all Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) applications will be unavailable on Sunday, March 29 from 5:50 to 11:30. This includes: all incoming data or outbound messages such as acknowledgements, reject messages and notices, e.g. RNS, Completeness Notices during this time. We…