On October 25, 2008, the Canada Border Services Agency published the following list of companies who have been approved for the Partners in Protection program (like C-TPAT) and have given permission for their names to be...
The latest news about the ability of U.S. Customs and Border Patrol to engage in search activities should cause travelers and senders of documents concern. Courthouse News Service reports that "The 9th Circuit upheld the...
On October 17, 2008, the Canada Border Servcies Agency issued D-Memorandum D-10-14-55 "Tariff Classification of Wood Flooring Products" - see - www.cbsa.gc.ca/publications/dm-md/d10/d10-14-55-eng.pdf
The CBSa...
On October 17, 2008, during the Canada-EU summit in Quebec City, Quebec, Prime Minister Harper and President Nicholas Sarkozy of France confirmed that Canada and the EU would start to explore a free trade agreement (or possibly...
I recently spoke to a lawyer from a South Asian culture about how she is directed to a secondary screening every time she returns to Canada from a business trip or holidays. She is from a culture where women and men wear...
The true story is probably yet to be reported and possibly the movie will follow. On October 17, 2008, the Canadian National Post newspaper printed an article about a Canadian - Iranian citizen who was arrested in...
Timing is everything. As a Canadian lawyer, I must question whether the change in enforcement procedures announced by the United States Customs and Border Protection (U.S. CBP), which are effective on October 17, 2008,...
One week before the Canadian federal election, Prime Minister Harper and the Conservative Party revealed their platform. The following promises would be interesting from a trade perspective:
- Increased Trade with Emerging...
Laptop searches at the border is a topic that I frequently write about on this blog. The following article appears as a editorial in the Los Angeles Times on September 29, 2008:...
Starting on September 30, 2008, U.S. Customs and Border Protection will begin to monitor transit movements of agricultural commodities going across the border from Canada to the United States. The new development arises as a...
The Asian Tribunal has reported that the SAARC (South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation) countries will harmonize their customs procedures and documentation. The SAARC countries include Bangladesh, Bhutan,...
On September 26, 2008, P)rime Minister Stephen Harper made a campaign promise to restrict the export of raw bitumen (in other words, he promised to ban the export of heavy black oil from Canada's oil sands to countries with lax...
Trade Lawyers Blog co-founder, Susan Kohn Ross is quoted in the following article from Shipping Digest that may be located online at the following link - www.shippingdigest.com/news/article.asp.
The United States, Japan and Taiwan have filed requests for WTO consultations with the European Communities (EC) and its member States regarding the imposition of customs duties on flat panel displays, set-top boxes (STBs) with...
At Professor Roth's export violation trial in Knoxville, Tennessee, Professor Roth made the following statement:
"I do think academic research is going to be impacted by the results of this probe," he said. "It would make it...
Domain-b.com has reported today that the Indian courts have upheld seizures of corporate aircraft by India Customs. I am copying the article in full below for those who cannot read it at the following link -...
