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The following form is now available on the CBSA website: BSF732 - National Targeting Centre - Pre-Arrival Notice http://www.cbsa-asfc.gc.ca/publications/forms-formulaires/bsf732-eng.ht… This form is to be used when advising the CBSA National Targeting Centre of the pre-arrival of a vessel…

CBSA has advised that their Scarborough office, located at 55 Town Center Court and closed since May 6th, will re-open on Wednesday, June 18th.

Today, the Honourable Rona Ambrose, Minister of Health, announced the implementation of the Canadian Food Inspection Agency's (CFIA) Inspection Verification Teams to oversee the performance of Canada's food safety system. Starting this month, six teams of three inspection verification officers will…

The Notice of commencement of Preliminary Injury Inquiry and associated News Release are available on the CITT website. Notice of commencement of Preliminary Injury Inquiry, issued 16 June http://www.citt.gc.ca/en/node/6655 Tribunal Initiates Inquiry — Concrete Reinforcing Bar from the People's…

Decision and reasons issued Friday, May 23, 2014 IN THE MATTER OF an appeal heard on March 27, 2014, pursuant to section 67 of the Customs Act, R.S.C., 1985, c. 1 (2nd Supp.); AND IN THE MATTER OF a decision of the President of the Canada Border Services Agency, dated February 4, 2013, issued…

The ACROSS EDI release requests received report for May 2014 is available on the CSCB website at: http://cscb.ca/sites/cscb.ca/files/uploads/May_2014-EDI_Monthly_Report… The national EDI percent was 95.30%.

Chapter 02 was published to change the release recommendation from "Refused entry" to "Refer to CFIA-NISC" for the following HS codes with the end uses; "In transit through Canada" and "Other end uses" originating from; Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Greece, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg…

Please be advised that the following has been updated on the CFIA website: - List of Exporters of Live Lobster and Lobster Tomalley Products to Japan http://inspection.gc.ca/food/fish-and-seafood/exports/by-jurisdiction/j……

Government officials will meet with representatives from industry and consumer groups tomorrow to discuss the Government of Canada’s ongoing efforts to strengthen food safety. This has been excerpted from a 16 June 2014 news release by Canadian Food Inspection Agency and is available in its entirety…

Applications to challenge the Certified Customs Specialist (CCS) examination in September 2014 will be accepted until end of day, Tuesday, July 15. Information about challenging the exam is found on our website at the following URL: http://cscb.ca/content/challenge-ccs-exam. There are two…

On June 13, 2014, the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) initiated investigations under the Special Import Measures Act respecting the alleged injurious dumping and subsidizing of certain concrete reinforcing bar originating in or exported from the People’s Republic of China, the Republic of Korea…

On June 14, 2014, both CBSA and CFIA advised that outbound processing of EDI messages was not available. We understand that the problems were resolved the same day.

Decision and reasons issued Friday, May 23, 2014 IN THE MATTER OF an appeal heard on February 11, 2014, pursuant to section 67 of the Customs Act, R.S.C., 1985, c. 1 (2nd Supp.); AND IN THE MATTER OF five decisions of the President of the Canada Border Services Agency, dated June 30 and July 5, 2011…

Further to the CSCB’s message of June 13th, the CBSA has now advised of changes to the 2014 tariff. CBSA’s notice follows; please note that the Customs Notice referred to in this message was included in a draft format in the June 13th CSCB message. The CSCB is following up with CBSA to determine how…