The remission order/order in council does not yet appear to have been published in the Canada Gazette.

The CBSA takes the position that NO GROUNDS are required to examine goods on a traveller.

The European Union has said that should President Trump impose steel tariffs, the EU will expedite a steel safeguard case. While Canada may be excluded from the U.S. Section 232 tariffs, Canadian steel companies would be caught by the European Union safeguard case.

The due diligence checklist should also include questions about Controlled Goods registrations so that the reporting requirement is included on the closing checklist.

The Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement (CUSMA or USMCA) will introduce new and complex requirements for the automotive industry.

In most companies exporting their goods, it is the sales department or the logistics department that prepares and signs the certificates of origin.

Canadian exporters selling to these countries should review the new rules to see whether they apply to their exports.

This particular case was decided the way it was because Mr. Sharanek did not do enough.

On February 9, 2017, Stewart Bell wrote an article for the Financial Post entitled "Canadian company investigating branch in Iraq after logo spotted in photos of missile test".

This caused PayPal's export controls/economic sanctions internal compliance mechanisms to kick in.

The Canada Border Services Agency ("CBSA") has statutory authority in subsection 99(1) of the Customs Act to open goods that are being imported – this includes letters and packages.

On May 13, 2016, the Government of Canada announced that on May 11, 2016 the Canada Border Services Agency had signed a Mutual Recognition Agreement with the Tax Administration of Mexican States.

The Government of Canada posted a Notice to Exporters (No. 211) "Vehicles for Export to the European Union and Its Member States (Item 5210 of Canada's Export Control List)" (dated May 25, 2017).

Canadian businesses, small, medium and large import goods from China. It is a reality in a globalized supply chain.

Many Canadian businesses are not receiving properly completed NAFTA certificates of origin. The purpose of a NAFTA certificate of origin is to provide the CBSA with information . . .

On January 23, 2018, Canada, Australia, Brunei, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore and Vietnam reached an agreement in principle for a multi-country free trade area.

When we performed the same audit on the same documents, the assessment was almost zero.

Simply put, this NEXUS Program rule change guts the benefits of the NEXUS Program.

We are raising this issue now because many people have started their holiday shopping and buy goods online.

More significantly the transshipment rule in the CIFTA has been expanded beyond the United States.