July 31, 2008By: Cyndee Todgham Cherniak
Industry Minister, Jim Prentice, has hinted (strongly) that Canadian telecom giants Bell Mobility and Telus Mobility could face new regulations if they do not reconsider their decision to charge customers for incoming text...
Posted in Internet & E-Commerce Law, Telecommunications Law, Canada, Bilateral Investment Treaties (BITs)/ FIPAs | No Comments
July 31, 2008By: Cyndee Todgham Cherniak
Most people would laugh at the words "customs officers" and sensitivity training" in the same sentence. They are not a group known for being "sensitive". Well, the Canada Border Services...
Posted in Canada, Border Security Initiatives, Customs Duties | No Comments
July 31, 2008By: Cyndee Todgham Cherniak
On July 31, 2008, two tobacco companies, (1) Rothmans Benson and Hedges ("Rothmans") and (2) Imperial Tobacco Canada Ltd. ("Imperial") ended cases going back 8 years relating to the cross-border smuggling of tobacco products. A...
Posted in GST/PST and Other Non-Income Taxes, Canada, Border Security Initiatives, Customs Duties | No Comments
July 29, 2008By: Cyndee Todgham Cherniak
News Release
Enhanced driver’s licences concern Canada’s privacy guardians
Federal-Provincial-Territorial Meeting of Information and Privacy Commissioners and Ombudsmen
VICTORIA, February 5, 2008 – Plans to ...
Posted in Consumer Protection Law, Administrative and Regulatory Law, Privacy & Data Protection Law, Canada, Border Security Initiatives | No Comments
July 29, 2008By: Cyndee Todgham Cherniak
Canada's Minister of International Trade announced that Canada would pursue bilateral and regional trading agreements while waiting for multi-lateral discussions to restart. Minister Fortier stated:
"Despite the impasse,...
Posted in Trade Law, Canada, Free Trade Agreements, Bilateral Investment Treaties (BITs)/ FIPAs | No Comments
July 29, 2008By: Cyndee Todgham Cherniak
The “Doha Round” of multilateral trade talks at the World Trade Organization lapsed back into limbo on July 29, 2008 as an informal meeting of Ministers did not end in the acceptance of the compromise "package of elements".
If...
Posted in Trade Law, WTO Developments, Trade Remedies, Global Safeguards, Agriculture, Developing Countries, USA, India, China | No Comments
July 28, 2008By: Susan Kohn Ross
Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) changed is a program in which it tested containers for fumigant and solvent levels before allowing officers to enter them for inspection purposes. The program was originally put in place two...
Posted in Trade Lawyers Blog, Border Security Initiatives, Africa, Australia / New Zealand, China, European Economic Community, India, Mexico, South Korea, Thailand | No Comments
July 28, 2008By: Cyndee Todgham Cherniak
Canada is open for business. For years Canada has been reducing taxes on businesses to put Canada top in the minds of foreign corporations as a place to incorporate in order to service the North American market.
The KPMG...
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July 28, 2008By: Cyndee Todgham Cherniak
The developing countries will have a lot of hard work to do to prepare the special agricultural safeguard mechanism that will be needed if the Doha Round is completed. If the "package of elements" relating to agriculture...
Posted in Developing Countries, WTO Developments, Trade Remedies, Agriculture | No Comments
July 27, 2008By: Cyndee Todgham Cherniak
There are two recent clues that businesses that use satellites to map the earth's surface must have export controls registrations and licenses. The first clue is that Canada's Minister of Industry rejected the sale from MDA to...
Posted in Canada, USA, Export Controls and Economic Sanctions | No Comments
July 27, 2008By: Cyndee Todgham Cherniak
On July 26, 2008, the World Trade Organization Director General, Pascal Lamy, announced that the informal discussions that took place during the week of July 21, 2008 had resulted in a "package of elements". This "package...
Posted in WTO Developments | No Comments
July 27, 2008By: Cyndee Todgham Cherniak
The Honorable Sergio Marchi, Canada's former Ambassador to the WTO and currently a business advisor in Lang Michener LLP's International Trade Group and the Chairman of the Canadian Services Coalition has sent Trade Lawyers Blog...
Posted in Trade Law, Canada, WTO Developments, Trade in Services | No Comments
July 26, 2008By: Susan Kohn Ross
Well, it certainly sounded like the fellow was hit with a stupid stick - according to a report dated July 23, 2008 on the Seattle Post-Intelligencer’s website, a Rolls-Royce was stolen from a bonded warehouse where it had been...
Posted in Trade Lawyers Blog, USA, Import Controls, Shipping & Transport | No Comments
July 26, 2008By: Susan Kohn Ross
As countries such as Belarus, Burma, China, Cuba, Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Tunisia, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Vietnam continue their efforts to restrict Internet access to their citizens,...
Posted in Trade Lawyers Blog, Africa, Australia / New Zealand, Canada, China, European Economic Community, India, Mexico, South Korea, Thailand | No Comments
July 26, 2008By: Susan Kohn Ross
On July 16, 2008, CBP published a policy statement regarding how its officers are to conduct themselves when dealing with searches of laptops, PDAs and other electronic devices. See...
Posted in Women Lawyers Blog, Trade Lawyers Blog, Border Security Initiatives, Africa, Australia / New Zealand, Canada, China, India, South Korea, Thailand | No Comments
July 26, 2008By: Susan Kohn Ross
"China likely to increase textile tax rebates" is the headline screamed by China Daily on July 15, 2008. See www.chinadaily.com.cn/bizchina/2008-07/15/content_6848428.htm. China’s Ministry of Commerce (MOC) is quoted as...
Posted in Trade Lawyers Blog, Africa, Australia / New Zealand, Canada, China, European Economic Community, India, Mexico, South Korea, Thailand | No Comments