The following is excerpted from the 27 April 2010 edition of “globeandmail.com”.

Canadian companies can develop new export opportunities to Colombia – and steal market share from the United States – once a new free trade agreement is ratified with the South American nation, Colombian Trade Minister Luis Plata says.
While talks toward [...]

HST and GST: CRA Provides Answers

The Canada Revenue Agency has provided answers to questions asked by CSCB members regarding HST on customs brokers’ services. These questions and answers are reproduced below and are also available as a PDF document.
Members with additional questions, or questions regarding any of the information contained in [...]

The following is excerpted from the 30 April 2010 news release by DFAIT.
The Honourable Peter Van Loan, Minister of International Trade, took his free trade message to Toronto’s business community today in support of a Canada-European Union comprehensive economic and trade agreement. In a keynote speech to the Economic Club of Canada he said [...]

The following is excerpted from today’s edition of the “Canadian Press”.
It may well be the biggest and most important trade negotiation that most Canadians have never heard of.
While most of the news out of Europe of late has had to do with the Greek debt crisis and an ash-spewing volcano in Iceland, about 60 [...]

The following press release was issued today by the WCO.
The World Customs Organziation (WCO) has called on Customs authorities around the world to expedite Customs clearances of air freight, to the greatest extent possible, to support rapid global recovery of aircargo supply chains following the volcanic ash cloud crisis that shutdown much of Europe’s [...]

The following is excerpted from today’s edition of “The Journal of Commerce”.
Europe’s airline industry lurched back to life Wednesday as carriers put planes back into the air after being grounded for nearly a week by a volcanic ash plume from Iceland. Most airports across Europe were open April 21.
But airlines warned it will take [...]

The following is excerpted from the 15 April 2010 edition of “American Shipper”.
At a House hearing on efforts to combat Mexican drug cartels and reduce violence on the Southwest border, new U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Alan Bersin emphasized that properly designed security measures can protect the nation without harming commerce.
“We can be [...]

The following is excerpted from the 26 February 2010 edition of “globeandmail.com”.
Canada and U.S. authorities are talking about extending cross-border security measures that were implemented for the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver and were to end with the closing of the Winter Games.
The RCMP and the U.S. Coast Guard have jointly patrolled the waters off [...]

In 2006, the BCCC created a sub-committee to undertake a fundamental review of the CBSA Administrative Monetary Penalty System (AMPS). The purpose of the review was to make amendments to AMPS to ensure it was fair, consistent, and transparent, and was easy to administer. Streamlining the penalty regime and reducing the number of contraventions was [...]

The following was reported on in today’s edition of ST&R’s “WorldTrade Interactive”.
The European Commission (EC) issued a working paper this month that blasts a U.S. statute that requires all foreign cargo containers shipped to the United States (except U.S. and foreign military cargo) to be scanned by non-intrusive imaging equipment and radiation detection equipment [...]