On January 22, 2008, Canada's Federal Court determined that the Minister of International Trade has to make a determination whether goods were on the import control list (ICL) and then exercise his/her discretion on whether to...
On January 30, 2008, the Canada Border Services Agency issued Customs Notice CN-2008-003 "Release of Canadian Automated Export Declaration 2008" in which it advised exporters that it released the 2008 version of the Canadian...
Canada is one step closer to passage of Bill C-9 "An Act to implement the Convention on the Settlement of Investment Disputes between States and Nationals of Other States (ICSID Convention)". On January 31, 2008, Bill C-9...
On January 28, 2008, the Minister of Foreign Affairs made the following statement in the House of Commons:
"Mr. Speaker, I wish to inform the House that we have fulfilled another election promise today. Effective immediately,...
On January 28, 2008, Canadian MPs went back to work at the House of Commons after a 6 week recess. One of the first matters was the tabling of Bill C-9 "an Act to implement the Convention on the Settlement of Investment...
On January 29, 2008, the Export and Import Controls Bureau (EICB) issued Notice 155 "Export Controls to Burma (Myanmar)". This notice supersedes Notice to Exporters Serial No. 100, “Export Controls to Myanmar...
The following article comes from "ZDNet Australia" and should raise concerns about privacy, data protection and chilling legitimate communications between individuals, compliance officers, legal advisors and other consultants and...
Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a...
I am happy to read that a bi-partisan group of 19 U.S. Senators and 30 representatives of the U.S. Congress agree with Canada that the information document requirements for Canadians and Americans crossing the Canada-United...
On January 25, 2008, the World Trade Organization (WTO) announced that after 14 years of negotiations, the WTO Working Party on Ukraine's accession to the WTO adopted the Accession Package. Ukraine's accession package...
January 26, 2008 is International Customs Day. The World Customs Organization posted a statement commemorating International Customs Day 2008. The focus of discussion for 2008 International Customs Day is the illegal...
On January 26, 2008, Canada announced that the Minister of International Trade and the Leaders of the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) Countries (Iceland, Lichtenstein, Norway, and Switzerland) signed a free trade...
On January 26, 2008, Canada announced that it had concluded its negotiations of a free trade agreement with Peru. The Canada-Peru Free Trade Agreement (CPFTA) follows the Canada-Peru bilateral investment treaty (called a...
On January 25, 2008, Canada announced that it was introducing important and significant changes to its current policies and procedures for the signing of international agreements.
The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Maxime Bernier,...
Canada's Minister of International Trade and the Leaders of the EFTA Countries (Iceland, Lichtenstein, Norway, and Switzerland) will sign a free trade agreement in Davos, Switzerland on January 26, 2008. Canada had...
The following announcment was posted on the WCO web-site:
Egypt and Vietnam ratify the revised Kyoto Convention
On 8 January 2008 Egypt and Vietnam acceded to the International Convention on the Simplification and...
