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CFIA issues a notice to the Canadian organic industry regarding the interpretation of the U.S.-Canada Organic equivalency arrangement Read More

Fuel oils and crude petroleum loadings accounted for over one-third of the total tonnage decline in June, falling 69.4% (-1.3 million tonnes) from the same month in 2019 Read More

Trade in goods and services has been affected by temporary border closures and travel restrictions linked to the pandemic Read More

The border closure does not apply to freight and to certain essential travel Canada and the United States have announced that they are extending by another month the border restrictions put in place at the end of March. Canadian and U.S. officials have mutually determined that non-essential travel between the United States and Canada still poses additional…

Tribunal will first determine whether the imports are harming Canadian producers The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) launched an investigation to determine whether certain wheat gluten from Australia, Austria, Belgium, France, Germany and Lithuania is being sold at unfair prices in Canada. The investigation is the result of a complaint filed by a Canadian manufacturer.…

Tribunal is seeking opinions on whether it should let the finding expire or conduct an expiry review The Canadian International Trade Tribunal’s finding concerning the dumping of certain refined sugar originating in or exported from the United States, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom, and the subsidizing of the aforementioned goods originating in…

The Agency needs more time due to circumstances making it difficult to decide within normal dateline The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) announced that it needed more time for making preliminary determinations with respect to the investigation into the alleged injurious dumping of certain hot-rolled carbon steel heavy plate and high-strength low-alloy steel heavy plate…

Customs still needs to ensure national security requirements are maintained with respect to the radiation screening and risk mitigation of marine containers Read More

Memorandum D19-7-3 has been updated to reflect recent amendments to the Export and Import of Hazardous Waste and Hazardous Recyclable Material Regulations Read More

Memorandum D11-4-13 has been revised to reflect the implementation of four trade agreements Read More

Any tariff rate quota (TRQ) quantities available will be found on a web page which will be updated regularly Read More

An interesting report from the Office of the Chief Economist of Global Affairs Canada Read More

Canada will impose surtaxes against imports of aluminum and aluminum-containing products from the U.S. On August 6, 2020, the United States announced the imposition of tariffs of 10 per cent on imports of certain aluminum products from Canada, which will take effect on August 16, 2020. In response to these measures Canada intends to impose…

Government will monitor the situation and look into how to support the ongoing mediation efforts The Federal Government will not intervene in the settlement of the strike which is currently stopping most operation at the Port of Montreal. Federal Minister of Labour, Filomena Tassi, issued the following statement: “The Syndicat des débardeurs, Canadian Union of…

Provisional duties could soon apply to decorative and other non-structural plywood from China After conducting a preliminary injury inquiry the Canadian International Trade Tribunal announced that it found a reasonable indication that the dumping and subsidizing of certain decorative and other non-structural plywood originating in or exported from China, have caused injury or retardation or…