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Geodis Wilson Canada Ltd - Membership Application

August 20, 2013
The CSCB welcomes an application for a membership from Geodis Wilson Canada Ltd. The CSCB contact is Ms. Gillian Jiwani, Customs Director. Ms. Jiwani is also the licence holder. Geodis Wilson Canada has been licensed since November 2008 for Mississauga, ON, Richmond, BC and Dorval, QC. The contact…
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Use of Broker’s Business Number

August 20, 2013
This message is further to our message of July 8, 2013, regarding the use of a broker’s Business Number when he is not the importer. The CSCB and CBSA continue to discuss this practice, as well as the issue of liability. CBSA has asked that CSCB members who have received a penalty when using their…

Food Safety Regulatory Modernization - Web Consultation

August 20, 2013
New and important legislation—the Safe Food for Canadians Act—has been passed. Now, the CFIA must review all existing regulations in order to bring the Act into force. CFIA is making progress on a number of key initiatives that will enable the Act to come into force, including inspection, regulatory…

Government Continues to Deepen Canada’s Economic Ties in Southeast Asia

August 20, 2013
The following is excerpted from a 20 August 2013 news release by Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development Canada. The Honourable Ed Fast, Minister of International Trade, today highlighted the role the Canada-ASEAN Business Council (CABC) is playing to deepen trade and investment ties between Canada…
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The success of eManifest depends on you!

August 20, 2013
For Canada’s customs brokers and importers, the identification of Secondary Notify Parties (SNPs) and the use of Manifest Forward are critical to the successful implementation of eManifest. Carriers and freight forwarders have the option of nominating customs brokers to receive either or both Cargo…

Softwood Lumber quota for September 2013

August 20, 2013
Softwood Lumber interim quota allocations for SEPTEMBER 2013 are now available in EICS. Please be advised that the volume available currently represents 80% of the actual SEPTEMBER allocation.

CBP Outlines Use of Document Image System to Submit Import Forms

August 20, 2013
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted to its Web site a document outlining several scenarios in which the Document Image System may be used. The DIS is a key step in the development of the International Trade Data System, which seeks to establish a single window for the submission of trade…

Statement by Ministers Fast and Ritz on U.S. Country of Origin Labelling

August 20, 2013
The following is excerpted from the 19 August 2013 news release by DFAIT. The Honourable Ed Fast, Minister of International Trade, and the Honourable Gerry Ritz, Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food, today issued the following statement on U.S. Country of Origin Labelling (COOL): “Following through…

Security key to strengthening trade ties with US

August 20, 2013
The following is excerpted from the 19 August 2013 article by Canadian Transportation & Logistics. Ensuring the security of our transportation systems is key to strengthening Canada-US trade relationship, according to Canada’s new transport minister, Lisa Raitt. Raitt …said that in implementing the…

Single Window Initiative – Integrated Import Declaration

August 19, 2013
CBSA has provided an updated version of the Single Window Initiative (SWI) Integrated Import Declaration (IID) Electronic Commerce Client Requirements Document (ECCRD). The IID is the new electronic message that CBSA has developed to allow the submission of information that meets CBSA requirements…

CFIA Scheduled Network Maintenance, 17 August

August 16, 2013
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 Saturday August 17, 2013. The CFIA Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) system will be affected by this maintenance window…

Monthly Survey of Manufacturing, June 2013

August 16, 2013
The following is excerpted from a 16 August 2013 release by Statisitcs Canada. Manufacturing sales declined 0.5% to $48.2 billion in June, the fourth decrease in six months. Manufacturing sales have been on a slow decline since the spring of 2012. The decline in June mostly reflected lower sales in…

Mid-Year Export Checkup

August 16, 2013
The following is excerpted from a 15 August 2013 commentary by Peter G. Hall of EDC. Economic data for the first half of 2013 are almost all tabulated. At the beginning of the year, hopes were high that international trade would step up, compensating for the increasingly sluggish consumer and…