2021

The Agency needs more time due to the complexity and novelty of the issues The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) announced that it needed more time for making preliminary determinations with respect to the investigations into the alleged injurious dumping…

 The border closure does not apply to freight and to certain essential travel Canada and the United States will be extending by another month the border restrictions put in place a year ago. It has been determined that non-essential travel…

Negligible-risk status for bovine spongiform encephalopathy would help access to certain trade markets for Canadian products Canada is now closer to being recognized by the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) as a negligible-risk country for bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE).…

Provisional duties at rates ranging from 8% to 45% will now be payable on the subject goods The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) made a preliminary determination of dumping respecting certain concrete reinforcing bar from Oman and Russia. Provisional duties…

Anti-dumping finding scheduled to expire unless CBSA and Tribunal decide to maintain it The Canadian International Trade Tribunal initiated an expiry review of its finding of March 2016, which resulted on anti-dumping and countervailing duties being applied to carbon and…

Merchandise exports increased 8.1 percent, while imports were up almost one percent Due to the existence of circumstances that make it unusually difficult to make a preliminary determination regarding the alleged injurious dumping and subsidizing of certain grinding media from…

Circumstances make it unusually difficult for CBSA to make a preliminary determination within ninety days Due to the existence of circumstances that make it unusually difficult to make a preliminary determination regarding the alleged injurious dumping and subsidizing of certain…

 Four months suspension allows both sides to focus on resolving this long-running dispute. A similar agreement was reached between the U.S. and the UK The United States and the European Union announced that they agreed to suspend all retaliatory tariffs…

Tribunal will now determine whether the expiry of duties is likely to result in injury to Canadian industry In October 2020, the Canadian International Trade Tribunal initiated an expiry review of its concerning the dumping of refined sugar, originating in…

Canadian trademark or geographical indication rights holders can file a request for assistance Since most counterfeit goods are produced abroad, the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) has established a process under which intellectual property rights holders/owners can ask the Agency…