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Group discusses progress on the joint statement endorsed by all members in June to mitigate the impacts of COVID-19 Read More

Memorandum D10-0-1 has been updated to clarify the Canada Border Services Agency’s administrative policy regarding the classification of parts and accessories in the Customs Tariff Read More

November 17, 2020 Read More

November 17, 2020 Read More

Anti-dumping and/or countervailing duties will be collected by the CBSA on importations of these goods The Canadian International Trade Tribunal announced on November 16, 2020 its finding that the dumping of certain corrosion-resistant flat-rolled steel sheet products of carbon steel from Turkey and Vietnam, and the subsidizing of the aforementioned goods from Turkey have caused…

Most blanket certificates are filled-out to expire on December 31 and have to be renewed Blanket certificates of origin, whether for CUSMA or for other free trade agreements, are usually set to begin on January 1 and to expire, twelve months later, on December 31. The preferential tariff treatment of a free trade agreement can…

World Customs Organization’s amendments will affect every country’s customs tariff classifications In January of this year the World Customs Organization (WCO) posted to its website the official version of changes to the Harmonized System (HS) nomenclature which will enter into force on January 1, 2022. This week the WCO’s Harmonized System Committee (HSC) announced that…

This is primarily a result of the sharp decline in overall global trade since the COVID-19 outbreak The World Trade Organization’s (WTO) latest Trade Monitoring Report on G20 trade measures shows a slowdown in the number and coverage of trade-restrictive and trade-facilitating measures on goods implemented by G20 countries between mid-May and mid-October 2020. The…

New Memorandum D11-4-35 describes the determination of when goods are entitled to benefit from the United States Tariff or the Mexico Tariff under the Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement (CUSMA) Read More

The Ontario Ministry of Finance has requested that the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) expand its provincial agreement to incorporate the collection of tobacco tax on casual importations within the postal stream for Ontario Read More

The Agency published Risk Management Document RMD-19-02 Pest Risk Management Document for the deregulation of Tomicus piniperda Read More

This applies to the manufacture, sale, import or export of fertilizers and supplements regulated under the Fertilizers Act From:    CFIA Webmaster <[email protected]>    To:    [email protected]:    20201116 – Updates to the Fertilizers Regulations now final/ Modifications du Règlement sur les engrais adoptées    Date sent:    Mon, 16 Nov 2020 10:25:26 -0500    Send reply to:    CFIA Webmaster <[email protected]> (Le…

The Trade Tribunal says resumption of dumping would result in injury to Canadian industry The Canadian International Trade Tribunal announced that it continued its finding made in February 2010 (and prolonged in 2015) concerning the dumping of certain hot-rolled carbon steel plate and high-strength low-alloy steel plate originating in or exported from Ukraine. The Tribunal…

The Tribunal determines that nothing needs to be added to the list of surtax exclusions The Government of Canada applies, since October 2018, safeguard measures to imports of heavy plate and stainless steel wire. The subject countries are all countries except the United States, Mexico, Chile, Israel, Korea, Colombia, Honduras, Panama, Peru and all countries…

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 dumping (or not) of wheat gluten from Australia, Austria, Belgium, France, Germany and Lithuania within the normal ninety days, the Canada Border…