October 08, 2008By: Cyndee Todgham Cherniak
On September 26, 2008, Senator Russ Feingold (D. – Wis) and Senator Maria Cantwell (D. – Wash) introduced the Traveller’s Privacy Protection Act of 2008 to place limits on laptop searches at the U.S. border. I have...
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August 01, 2008By: Cyndee Todgham Cherniak
Any traveler to the United States should prepare to be without their laptop, cell phone, PDA, Blackberry, iPod, MP3, and other electronic equipment. In addition, any traveler to the United States should make back up copies...
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July 12, 2008By: Susan Kohn Ross
Customs Update: Big issues roil traders
July 2, 2008
By Susan Kohn Ross / The JOURNAL of COMMERCE ONLINE©
International traders have for the most part been insulated from a lot of the issues roiling "big...
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June 15, 2008By: Cyndee Todgham Cherniak
A recent China Law Blog posting U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and China (go to www.chinalawblog.com/2008/06/navigating_the_foreign_corrupt.html)has caused me to think about how businesses from Canada and other...
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March 23, 2008By: Susan Kohn Ross
A while back, Cyndee Cherniak posted an article about monetary seizures in Canada. The U.S. view is not all that different. The U.S. rule is that any money, monetary instrument (checks, money orders, etc), or other negotiable...
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February 14, 2008By: Cyndee Todgham Cherniak
On February 14, 2008, Canada's Minister of Finance and Minister of Public Safety announced that new regulations that will restrict the activities of those parties who engage in money laundering activities. The announcement...
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January 26, 2008By: Cyndee Todgham Cherniak
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...
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January 25, 2008By: Cyndee Todgham Cherniak
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,...
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December 01, 2007By: Susan Kohn Ross
It takes two to tango, but three to make a crowd and a crowd it has now become. First, it was British Airways PLC and Korean Air Lines Co., Ltd., which each agreed to pay $300 million in criminal fines as the result of pleading...
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October 27, 2007By: Cyndee Todgham Cherniak
On October 12, 2007, the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) updated and replaced its previous policy with D-Memorandum D-2-6-7 "Persons' Goods Detained at the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) or Abandoned to the Crown - Use...
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October 01, 2007By: Susan Kohn Ross
From American Shipper's September 21, 2007 On-Line Edition
A story coming out of India this week perfectly encapsulated the two major hurdles the South Asian nation’s fragile but explosively growing...
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August 24, 2007By: Cyndee Todgham Cherniak
On April 27, 2007, the Honourable Madam Justice Snider of the Federal Court, Trial Division issued her decision in a judicial review of the seizure of currency case of Ondre v. the Attorney General of Canada et. al. ...
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