Trade News

Please be advised that as the prevailing monthly price for April 2014 exceeds US $355. Charges and volume restraints under the Softwood Lumber Agreement will not be applicable during the month of April 2014. Pursuant to Article VII of the Agreement, when the prevailing monthly price for any given…

If you think the global economy is behaving unpredictably, at least there’s one thing you can always depend on: Let’s Talk Exports is the most productive hour you’ll spend to help you make sense of our current growth cycle and its impact on Canadian businesses like yours. Mark your calendar and…

Members may be interested in some of the updated forms that CRA made available today on their website: http://www.cra-arc.gc.ca/menu/NEW-e.html

1. This notice is to remind exporters of their obligation to correctly report the Harmonized System (HS) Code when completing their export declarations. Customs Act, Sub-Section 95(4) states: If goods are required to be reported in writing, they shall be reported in the prescribed form containing…

Please be advised that the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) Digital Document Store (DDS) is fully restored. During this time clients are instructed to send requests to (613) 773-9999. Clients are not to send requests via email unless advised by The National Import Service Centre (NISC). We…

The notice of commencement of interim review and associated press release are available on the CITT website. Notice of commencement of interim review http://www.citt.gc.ca/dumping/requests/notices/rd2n003_e.asp Tribunal initiates interim review - Liquid Dielectric Transformers from Korea http://www…

The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) has today concluded a re-investigation to update the normal values and export prices of certain carbon steel fasteners originating in or exported from the People’s Republic of China (China) and Chinese Taipei and to update the amounts of subsidy of certain…

a) Chapter 07 was published to change the release recommendation from "Refer to CFIA-NISC" to "Approved" for the following HS code originating from all origins except Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the states of California and Hawaii. 07.09.70.3031.01 - Amaranthus spp. (fresh or…

CIFA has contacted the CSCB and asked that we ensure members are aware of the changes regarding the process for importing meat from the U.S. CFIA is streamlining the current two-step process for importing U.S. meat and meat products into Canada and this initiative is intended to provide consistency…

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 16, 2014. The CFIA Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) system will be affected by this maintenance window from…

The Honourable Lisa Raitt, Minister of Transport, the Honourable Todd Stone British Columbia Minister of Transportation and Infrastructure, and Robin Silvester, President & Chief Executive Officer, Port Metro Vancouver, today announced concrete action to end the trucking dispute in Port Metro…

For maintenance purposes, the CCS/CADEX system will be unavailable on Saturday March 15, 2014 from 05:00 to 05:30 (ET) AND Sunday March 16, 2014 from 05:00 to 05:30 ET. CADEX, Customs Declaration Message (CUSDEC) B3s and AO notification of release queries transmitted to the CADEX system will be…

For maintenance purposes, all EDI applications will be unavailable on Sunday March 16, 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 during this…

With the ink still wet on a free-trade deal with South Korea, Prime Minister Stephen Harper says Canada would be willing to reopen the North American Free Trade Agreement for the right price. ... In a question-and-answer session at a B.C. Chamber of Commerce gathering, he said his government remains…

A trucking dispute has finished lumber stacking up at Conifex Fibre Marketing Inc.’s sawmills in Fort St. James and Mackenzie as the company has no way of shipping it to export customers through Port Metro Vancouver, a company official said Wednesday. Much of B.C.’s lumber exports to Asia is shipped…

Gordon Glanz of Odd Society Spirits, a small independent East Vancouver distillery, already owes $1,700 in port storage fees, a cost that grows daily as long as his shipment remains locked behind picket lines. Operations at Port Metro Vancouver have been disrupted since last week, when non-unionized…

This memorandum outlines and explains the Canada Border Services Agency’s (CBSA’s) requirements and administrative policies regarding the transmission of pre-arrival cargo and conveyance to the CBSA for goods being imported or transiting through Canada via the highway mode. This document is…

This memorandum outlines and explains the Canada Border Services Agency’s requirements and administrative policies regarding the transmission of pre-arrival cargo, conveyance and supplementary data (if applicable) to the CBSA for goods being imported or transiting through Canada via the air mode…

This memorandum outlines and explains the Canada Border Services Agency’s (CBSA’s) requirements and administrative policies regarding the transmission of pre-load/pre-arrival cargo, conveyance and supplementary data (if applicable) to the CBSA for goods being imported or transiting through Canada…