The following is available in its entirety on the Canada Border Services Agency website.
1. This notice replaces Customs Notice 15-023.
2. As per the newly published amendments made under the Reporting of Imported Goods Regulations, highway and rail carriers are responsible for electronically transmitting conveyance data for empty conveyances arriving in Canada. Highway and rail carriers are also required to electronically transmit conveyance data for in-transit movements.
3. The purpose of this notice is to inform highway and rail carriers of the Canada Border Services Agency’s (CBSA) interim policy with respect to Advance Commercial Information (ACI) requirements for:
- (a) empty highway and rail conveyances, and
- (b) in-transit highway and rail conveyances.
4. Highway and rail carriers who arrive at the First Port of Arrival (FPOA) with empty conveyances (with no specified goods on board), and who have not transmitted ACI data will not, for an appropriate period of time receive any Administrative Monetary Penalty System (AMPS) penalties for failing to transmit ACI for that empty conveyance. During this period, carriers arriving with no specified goods will be exempt from the mandatory provision of pre-arrival information.