The Canada Border Services Agency updates its verification priority targets

The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) posted on its website an updated page with the list of goods which are currently subject to its verification priorities.
Selected Government Memorandums, Notices and Decisions

Here is a selection of relevant memorandums, notices, and decisions published this week. If you have any questions, be sure to contact your Axxess specialist.
CBSA can help Canadian rights holders to fight counterfeit imports

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 to temporarily detain suspected counterfeit and/or pirated goods encountered at the border while the rights holders/owners seek legal redress.
Reminder: Blanket certificates of origin need to be renewed for 2024

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.
Ports of Montreal and Quebec award traditional gold-headed canes

The Montreal Port Authority officially inaugurated the start of a new year of activity by presenting the Gold-Headed Cane to Eduard Voshchuk, captain of the Helena G, which was the first ocean-going vessel of 2024 to cross the Port of Montreal’s downstream limit at Sorel without a stopover.
List of CBSA Holidays and maintenance outages in 2024

The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) electronic commerce systems published on it’s website the list of official Holidays for for the year 2024. They apply to all provinces except where indicated otherwise:
Selected Government Memorandums, Notices and Decisions

Here is a selection of relevant memorandums, notices, and decisions published this week. If you have any questions, be sure to contact your Axxess specialist.
CBSA finds dumping would resume if duties expired on hot-rolled carbon steel plate from China

On July 10, 2023 the Canadian International Trade Tribunal (CITT) initiated an expiry review of its order made in August 2018 concerning the dumping of certain hot-rolled steel plate originating in or exported from China.
Tribunal initiates expiry review of duties on carbon steel welded pipe from four countries

The Canadian International Trade Tribunal initiated an expiry review of its finding made in February 2019, to determine if the expiry of the finding is likely to lead to continued or resumed dumping or subsidizing of carbon steel welded pipe from Pakistan, the Philippines, Türkiye and Vietnam and is likely to result in injury to […]
CBSA awards contracts to modernize the Lacolle, Quebec port of entry

The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) announced that contracts have been awarded for architecture and engineering services for the work to be completed at the St-Bernard-de-Lacolle port of entry.