August 7, 2020

WTO General Council agrees on guidelines for final stage of DG selection

The Council also agreed to extend the tenures of the four sitting Deputy Directors-General — Yonov Fred Agah, Karl Brauner, Xiaozhun Yi and Alan Wolff — until a new Director-General has been selected Read More

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Vancouver Urban Enrollment Centre

CBSA and U.S. CBP will no longer conduct NEXUS and Free and Secure Trade (FAST) interviews at the Vancouver Urban Enrollment Centre Read More

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Import, export and in transit requirements of the Explosives Act and Regulations

Memorandum D19-6-1 has been updated to include recent changes Read More

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Stricter rules for foreign nationals transiting through Canada to Alaska

Stricter rules and additional entry conditions now apply to travellers transiting through Canada to Alaska for a non-discretionary purpose Read More

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CBSA Administration of Copyright, Trademarks and geographical indications

Memorandum D19-4-3 outlines and explains the legislation governing the role of the CBSA in dealing with counterfeit protected marks or pirated copyright goods Read More

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EU – Vietnam free trade agreement comes into force

Canada has free trade links with both sides through the CPTPP and the CETA The Free Trade Agreement between the European Union (EU) and Vietnam entered into force on August 1, 2020. The trade agreement will eliminate virtually all tariffs…

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U.S. Commission says imports of wind towers from Canada injure U.S. industry

The Department of Commerce will issue antidumping and countervailing duty orders The United States International Trade Commission (USITC) announced that it determined that a U.S. industry is materially injured by reason of imports of utility scale wind towers from Canada,…

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Global air cargo recovery continues in June, but at a slow pace

IATA says June global demand is a little less depressed that it was in May The International Air Transport Association (IATA) released data for global air freight markets in June showing improvement, but at a slower pace than some of…

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The WTO multi-party interim appeal arrangement gets operational

The contingency measure will apply until the WTO Appellate Body becomes operational again On July 31, the participants in the multi-party interim appeal arrangement (MPIA) notified the World Trade Organization (WTO) of the ten arbitrators who will hear appeals of…

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Canada’s trade deficit widens to $3.2 billion in June

Statistics Canada reports that exports increased 17.1 percent while imports rose 21.8 percent Statistics Canada announced that the country’s merchandise trade deficit with the world widened from $1.3 billion in May to $3.2 billion in June. The Federal agency says…

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