Contributing Lawyers

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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)...

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...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...