On May 1st, an overwhelming majority of workers at Canadian National Railway (CN) and Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CPKC) voted in favor of a strike. The union and rail companies will attend a mandatory 21-day period of federal mediation and, if they don’t come to an agreement, 9,900 workers could begin striking as early as May 22, 2024. A rail strike will significantly disrupt the flow of goods, particularly the transfer of imports arriving by ocean to rail terminals. A strike may also impact the transfer of cargo between rail junction points and seaports. Grain, potash and coal shipments wil ..read more

The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA), on April 29, 2024, concluded a normal value and export price review of Tak International Trading (Tianjin) Co., Ltd. located in China, an exporter of products subject to the Piling pipe SIMA case. The review follows requests for re-determination filed by an importer. During the review, Tak International did not provide sufficient information in their response to CBSA’s request for information (RFI). As such, normal values or specific amounts of subsidy were not issued and the “All Other Exporters” anti-dumping duty and subsidy rates will continue to ap ..read more

Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) announced on April 22, 2024, that it has launched a SIMA investigation respecting the alleged dumping and subsidizing of certain High Protein Content Pea Protein, originating in or exported China. The investigation follows a complaint filed by Nutri-Pea GP Inc. and Roquette Canada Ltd. Subsequently the Canadian International Trade Tribunal (CITT) initiated a preliminary inquiry to determine if the alleged dumping and subsidizing of said goods has caused injury or is threatening to cause injury to Canadian manufacturers. The CITT is scheduled to make their d ..read more

Global Affairs Canada (GAC) previously announced the requirement to provide the country of melt and pour (COM) information on imports of steel products falling under General Import Permits (GIP) 80 & 81. This is being implemented in two phases. Phase one began February 21st, 2024, where the requirement to provide the COM information is optional, the second phase beginning November 5th, 2024, when the requirement will be come mandatory. The country of melt and pour is the original location where raw steel is first produced in a steel-making furnace in a liquid state and then poured into its ..read more

The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) has announced that the implementation of Release 2 of the CBSA Assessment and Revenue Management (CARM) initiative will be delayed until October 2024 for trade chain partners. Release 2 had been scheduled to go live on May 13, 2024, however, officials have resolved that a delay is necessary to ensure that CBSA is able to support members of the trade community through the transition to Release 2. CBSA’s announcement read in part: CARM will launch internally at the CBSA on May 13, as planned, to advance the Agency’s compliance and enforcement efforts. How ..read more

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) has provided advance notice of the simplifying of import requirements for pet supplements made of animal products and by-products. The new requirements will be published on June 24, 2024. CFIA determined that the current categories available for pet supplements in the Automated Import Reference System (AIRS) tool does not accurately reflect all options available on the market. As such, they have updated AIRS to included only the following 3 categories: pet supplements with no animal origin ingredients pet supplements containing only highly processed ..read more

Normal value reviews are conducted by CBSA to update normal values, export prices or amounts of subsidy of single exporters as necessary, to ensure that these values accurately reflect current market conditions. On April 2, 2024, the CBSA initiated a normal value review to establish normal values, export prices and amounts of subsidy of goods subject to the Upholstered domestic seating SIMA case, exported to Canada from Vietnam by Duc Thanh Co., Ltd. Should the exporter decide to participate in this review, they are required to provide complete and accurate responses to the CBSA’s Request for ..read more

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) issued notice prohibiting the import of Russian origin: aluminum (Harmonized Tariff Schedule Chapter 76), copper (HTS Chapter 74) and nickel (HTS Chapter 75), imported after April 12, 2024, including import for admission into a U.S. foreign trade zone (FTZ), unless authorized by the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC). The ban exclude aluminum, copper, and nickel of Russian origin that was produced prior to April 13, 2024, with proof of production date. CBP will require production level documentation to determine admissibility prior to cargo relea ..read more

Commercial decision makers doing business in Canada (or planning to) may be caught off guard by the federal government’s recent call to fall in line with ethical sourcing practices, which demand the issuance of public reports as early as May 31st. The newly enacted Fighting Against Forced Labor and Child Labor in Supply Chains Act (Bill S-211) holds organizations responsible and puts in place a series of reporting and compliance checks designed to encourage business operating in Canada to establish processes that raise awareness of potential unethical sourcing and remove it from their supply ..read more

Re-investigations are conducted periodically by the CBSA to update normal values, export prices or amounts of subsidy and to establish values for new exporters or new models to ensure that the values in place accurately reflect current market conditions. On March 22, 2024, the CBSA concluded a re-investigation of the Heavy plate SIMA case currently in force. During the investigation, CBSA sent out dumping and subsidy requests for information (RFI) to all known importers, exporters, producers and vendors to solicit information on the costs and selling prices of subject goods. Exporters which su ..read more