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This memorandum provides the current and historical rates of excise duty imposed on spirits, wine and tobacco products under the Excise Act, 2001, as well as effective dates. It also provides the rates of special duty on certain spirits and the rates of additional duty and special duty on certain…

...On September 22, 2014, Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Park Geun-hye, President of the Republic of Korea, witnessed the signature of the Canada-Korea Free Trade Agreement, Canada’s first free trade agreement in the Asia-Pacific region. Canadian and Korean officials are working diligently…

Preliminary Injury Inquiry No. PI‑2014-002 Determination issued Friday, September 19, 2014 IN THE MATTER OF a preliminary injury inquiry, pursuant to subsection 34(2) of the Special Import Measures Act, respecting: Oil country tubular goods originating in or exported from Chinese Taipei, the…

a) Chapter 03 was published to; i) modify the import conditions for the following HS codes originating from Cuba with the end uses; "Food Service", "Retail Use" and "Food Processing for human consumption". 03.06.11 - Frozen: Rock lobster and other sea crawfish (Palinurus spp., Panulirus spp., Jasus…

Canada’s finance minister is urging European countries to consider taking quick action to repair their flagging economies by following stimulus programs similar to the one that pulled this country out of recession... Much of the focus of the G20 meeting was on the group’s so-called “2-in-5” target —…

Subscribers may be interested in the following, published on 20 September 2014 in Part I of the Canada Gazette. Canada Border Services Agency Special Import Measures Act Certain concrete reinforcing bar — Decisions Canadian International Trade Tribunal Appeal - Notice No. HA-2014-019 Commencement of…

For system maintenance purposes, the CCS/CADEX system will be unavailable on Saturday September 20, 2014 from 05:00 to 05:30 (ET) AND Sunday September 21, 2014 from 05:00 to 05:30 (ET). Submission of B3 declarations (CADEX, Customs Declaration Message (CUSDEC)) and AO notification of release queries…

For system maintenance purposes, all EDI applications will be unavailable on Sunday September 21, 2014 from 04:30 to 06:00 (ET) AND from 07:00 to 08:30 (ET). This includes: all incoming data or outbound messages such as acknowledgements, reject messages and notices, e.g. RNS, Completeness Notices…

CBSA has recently published Customs Notice 14-018: Importers Listed Under Transport Canada’s Pre-clearance Programs – Appendix F and Appendix G. The text of that notice follows. This notice makes it very clear that non-residents do not qualify for Transport Canada’s pre-clearance programs and may…

Expiry Review No.: RR-2014-002 On May 21, 2014, the Canadian International Trade Tribunal (Tribunal), pursuant to subsection 76.03(3) of the Special Import Measures Act (SIMA), initiated an expiry review of its finding made on February 2, 2010 in Inquiry No. NQ-2009-003 concerning the dumping of…

Dumping file #: 4237-53 Dumping case #: AD/518, AD/689 The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) has today concluded a re-investigation, in accordance with the Special Import Measures Act (SIMA), of the normal values and export prices of certain whole potatoes originating in or exported from the…

On September 11, 2014, the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) pursuant to subsection 38(1) of the Special Import Measures Act (SIMA) made preliminary determinations of dumping and subsidizing, in respect of certain concrete reinforcing bar originating in or exported from the People’s Republic of…

Further to the problem reported earlier, we are now able to process inbound and outbound data for clients using the direct connects named OOCL and CARGO SMART. Please revert to submitting all trade data electronically.

Implementation 1. This customs notice is to inform you that the Canada-Honduras Free Trade Agreement (CHFTA) will be implemented on October 1, 2014. With the exception of a few agricultural goods, the CHFTA will essentially eliminate the customs duties on all imports from Honduras, either…

1. Further to a Department of Finance notice published in Part II of the Canada Gazette, dated October 9, 2013, entitlement to the Least Developed Country Tariff (LDCT) is withdrawn, effective January 1, 2015, from all goods that originate in Equatorial Guinea and Maldives. Such goods must be…

1. Further to a Department of Finance notice published in Part II of the Canada Gazette, dated October 9, 2013, entitlement to the General Preferential Tariff (GPT) is withdrawn, effective January 1, 2015, from all goods that originate in 72 higher-income and trade-competitive countries (out of…

The 3rd APEC Ministerial Meeting on Food Security concluded on Friday in Beijing with the issuance of the Beijing Declaration on APEC Food Security by the region’s Agriculture and Food Ministers. The Beijing Declaration details measures to achieve the following objectives: Boost agricultural…

Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced that Herman Van Rompuy, President of the European Council, and José Manuel Barroso, President of the European Commission, will travel to Ottawa and Toronto on September 26, 2014, to take part in a Canada-European Union (EU) Summit... The Summit will mark the…