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July 23, 2010

Technical documents: Government memorandums, notices and decisions.

This page lists newly published government memorandums, notices, regulations and decisions. Clicking on a title will open the document (in a new window) as published by the relevant department or agency on its own Web site.

Canada Border Services Agency

• Message from CBSA re: Release Processing Disruptions - Marine Port of Montreal.
• Customs Notice CN10-014 New Highway Sufferance Warehouse (Halifax, N.S.).
• SIMA - Certain Steel Plates from the People's Republic of China, the Republic of Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Romania and Ukraine - Notice of Conclusion of Re-investigation.
• Goods subject to anti-dumping or countervailing duties. Measures in Force. Last reviewed July 16, 2010.
• Memorandum D15-2-49 Certain Carbon Steel Fasteners Originating in or Exported From The People's Republic of China and Chinese Taipei. Revised to reflect the Canadian International Trade Tribunal's orders, dated January 6, 2010.

Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade

• EICS Message - August 2010 Softwood Lumber Quotas Now Available.
• EICB Imports: Textiles and clothing - NAFTA Tariff Preference Level Utilization. Updated July 19.

Canadian Food Inspection Agency

• Import policy - Fish List. Updates: Product Inspection of Imported Fish, Canadian Regulatory Requirements for Fish Import Licence Holders, CFIA Fish List
• Procedure TAHD-DSAT-IE-2010-11-1 Shipments of Semen and Embryos Arriving with a Compromised Seal, July 9, 2010

Canadian International Trade Tribunal

• Appeal No. AP-2009-007 Sanus Systems. Tariff classification of certain flat panel television stands.
• Appeal No. AP-2009-056 Future Product Sales Inc. Tariff classification of certain flags, banners and car antenna flags printed with National Hockey League team logos.

European Union

• European Commission publishes excise duty rates applicable in the European Union as at 1 July 2010.

United States

• U.S. CBP announces temporary ban on personal importation of tomatoes, peppers from Canada.
• U.S. CBP Quota Frequently Asked Questions. The purpose of this question and answer compilation is to provide a useful consolidated resource for information on quota-related topics with links (blue/underlined text) to relevant content elsewhere on the Internet.
• U.S. CBP C-TPAT 5 Step Supply Chain Security Risk Assessment.
• U.S. CBP CSMS# 10-000170 - New Disposition Codes for Importer Security Filing (ISF).
• U.S. CBP CSMS# 10-000168 - Problem With End-Dating of Industry 57 - Biological Products Product Codes. Due to a glitch in the CBP/FDA Interface, only some of these codes have been removed from the CBP product code database.