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Country-of-origin-labelling: not so COOL

Miller Thomson LLP
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Canada
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May 9 2013

Country-of-Origin-Labelling, or COOL for short, may lead to a trade showdown with Canada and Mexico on one side and the United States on the other

Federal Government to amalgamate CIDA with DFAIT

Miller Thomson LLP
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Canada
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March 21 2013

The Budget states that, as part of a broader effort to promote integration and efficiency within its international engagement and development efforts

Withdrawal of General Preferential Tariff (GPT) treatment for certain countries

Miller Thomson LLP
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Canada
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February 12 2013

In the early 1970s, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development recommended that developed nations grant non-reciprocal duty reductions in

How to plan a customs compliance program

Miller Thomson LLP
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Canada
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January 24 2012

The range and type of businesses engaged in the importation and exportation of goods to and from Canada is almost infinite

Steering through Canadian cabotage laws

Miller Thomson LLP
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Canada
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November 7 2011

In August 2011, the Canada Border Services Agency (“CBSA”) issued a notice on the enforcement of cabotage laws restricting the movement of domestic goods by foreign-based commercial transportation businesses (see Canada Border Services Agency, Customs Notice 11-014 dated August 25, 2011

Steering through Canadian cabotage laws

Miller Thomson LLP
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Canada
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October 3 2011

In August 2011 the Canada Border Services Agency issued a notice on the enforcement of cabotage laws restricting the movement of domestic goods by foreign-based commercial transportation businesses

Facilitating low value imports

Miller Thomson LLP
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Canada
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March 22 2011

The Budget proposes the introduction of three new "basket" tariff items (0, 8 or 20 baskets depending on the category of goods, for example, apparel) in Chapter 98 of the Schedule to the Customs Tariff to facilitate the processing of low value non-commercial imports arriving by post or by courier

Customs Tariff simplification

Miller Thomson LLP
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Canada
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March 22 2011

The Federal Government announced the initiation of a process to simplify the Customs Tariff in order to facilitate trade and lower the administrative burden for businesses

Buy American

Miller Thomson LLP
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Canada, USA
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May 27 2010

In the September, 2009 issue of this newsletter, we explained the problems for Canadian companies with the “Buy American” clause in the U.S. government's $700-billion economic stimulus package (the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009