April 03, 2013By: Cyndee Todgham Cherniak
Lately, a number of clients have called with incident reports involving either the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) or U.S. Customs and Border Protection (USCBP) confiscating NEXUS passes from business travelers because...
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September 10, 2011By: Cyndee Todgham Cherniak
We are pleased to announce that we have launched Canada-US Blog (at www.canada-usblog.com). We have experienced difficulties updating and modernizing Trade Lawyers Blog and have made the hard decision to start a new...
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June 16, 2011By: Cyndee Todgham Cherniak
Canada has imposed wide reaching economic sanctions and trade restrictions against Libya. Canada has two sanctions regimes in place against Libya:
1) Multilateral sanctions as agreed by the United Nations imposed pursuant to the...
Posted in Canada Law Blog, Administrative and Regulatory Law, Financial Services and Banking Law, Trade Law, Canada, Export Controls and Economic Sanctions, Global Compliance & Risk Management, Government Relations, International Transactions | No Comments
June 15, 2011By: Cyndee Todgham Cherniak
On June 14, 2011, the Canadian House of Commons voted to recognize the Libyan rebel government, the National Transitional Council (TNC) as the legitimate representative of the Libyan people.
What this means is that the...
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June 14, 2011By: Cyndee Todgham Cherniak
Canada has imposed wide reaching economic sanctions and trade restrictions against Iran. Canada has two sanctions regimes in place against Iran:
1) Multilateral sanctions as agreed by the United Nations imposed pursuant to the...
Posted in Canada Law Blog, Administrative and Regulatory Law, Trade Law, Canada, Government Relations, Global Compliance & Risk Management, Export Controls and Economic Sanctions | No Comments
June 13, 2011By: Susan Kohn Ross
Last summer, FDA management warned industry the Agency was planning to find ways to use an old court decision, U.S. vs. Park, 421 U.S. 658 (Sup. Ct. 1975), to increase its enforcement arsenal. In that case, an executive at a food...
Posted in Africa, Australia / New Zealand, Canada, China, European Economic Community, India, Mexico, Thailand, USA, Food and Drug Regulation | No Comments
June 13, 2011By: Susan Kohn Ross
Former GSK Lawyer Exonerated
Last March we talked about the charges against former GlaxoSmithKline lawyer Lauren Stevens being dismissed. Shortly thereafter, charges were refiled and the case went to trial. (Ms. Stevens had...
Posted in Australia / New Zealand, Canada, China, European Economic Community, India, Mexico, South Korea, Thailand, USA, Food and Drug Regulation | No Comments
June 09, 2011By: Cyndee Todgham Cherniak
Can a "purchaser in Canada" as that term is defined for customs purposes in Canada undergo changes and no longer satisfy the criteria in the Value for Duty Regulations? Yes
Subsection 48(1) of the Customs Act (Canada)...
Posted in Canada Law Blog, Administrative and Regulatory Law, GST/PST and Other Non-Income Taxes, Trade Law, Canada, Customs Duties, Global Compliance & Risk Management, Government Relations | No Comments
June 09, 2011By: Cyndee Todgham Cherniak
The Export Development Corporation (EDC) asks entities with which it does business to make certifications regarding compliance with Canadian and other anti-corruption/anti-bribery laws. Pursuant to the Corruption of Public...
Posted in Canada Law Blog, Trade Law, Anti-Bribery/Anti-Money Laundering, Anti-Corruption - Foreign Corrupt Practices Act/Corruption of Foreign Public Officials, Canada, Global Compliance & Risk Management, Government Relations | No Comments
June 09, 2011By: Cyndee Todgham Cherniak
As discussed in my May 28, 2011 blog post entitled "The CBSA's Trade Compliance Post Release Verification Hit List of 2011", the Canada Border Services Agency is targeting gloves for tariff classification and tariff treatment....
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June 07, 2011By: Cyndee Todgham Cherniak
The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) is targeting tools, implements, cutlery, spoons and forks of base metals and parts in its 2011 national priorities for post-release trade compliance verifications. This is an...
Posted in Canada Law Blog, GST/PST and Other Non-Income Taxes, Trade Law, Canada, Customs Duties, Global Compliance & Risk Management, Government Relations | No Comments
June 06, 2011By: Cyndee Todgham Cherniak
A Canadian business that plans to import goods from one of Canada's free trade agreements partners (United States, Mexico, Chile, Israel, Costa Rica, Peru, Iceland, Norway, Lichtenstein and Switzerland) may ask for an advance...
Posted in Canada Law Blog, Administrative and Regulatory Law, GST/PST and Other Non-Income Taxes, Trade Law, Canada, Mexico, USA, Customs Duties, Global Compliance & Risk Management, Government Relations | No Comments
June 04, 2011By: Cyndee Todgham Cherniak
The Canada - European Free Trade Association (EFTA) Free Trade Agreement (Canada-EFTA FTA) does not follow the NAFTA model for origin verifications. In some respects, the Canada-EFTA FTA model is better for Canadian importers as...
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June 03, 2011By: Cyndee Todgham Cherniak
The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) is targeting stone and articles of stone in its 2011 national priorities for post-release trade compliance verifications. The H.S. tariff classification code that the CBSA has indicated...
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June 02, 2011By: Cyndee Todgham Cherniak
As far as I know, Canada does not have imminent plans to initiate a China-specific safeguard case against tires from China. The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) has a different focus. The CBSA has included motor car, bus and...
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June 01, 2011By: Cyndee Todgham Cherniak
The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) is busy in its role as the enforcer of anti-dumping and countervailing duty orders of the Canadian International Trade Tribunal (CITT). On March 19, 2009, the CITT issued an anti-dumping...
Posted in Canada Law Blog, Administrative and Regulatory Law, GST/PST and Other Non-Income Taxes, Trade Law, Canada, China, Global Compliance & Risk Management, Government Relations, Trade Remedies, Anti-Dumping | No Comments