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CBSA Releases Semi-annual Trade Verification Priorities

Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) has released its list of Trade Compliance Verification Priorities from July to December. CBSA employs a risk-based, evergreen process, which means that while new targets …



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Health Canada – Chemical Updates

The following are availabke on the Health Canada website Canada-United States Regulatory Cooperation Council The Chemicals Management Work Plan Update for the Canada-United States Regulatory Cooperation Council was published along …



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Willson US Contact Updates

As a reminder to all of our clients, new and long-standing, we at Willson’s eNews would like to provide the most current contact information for inquiries: Shipment Processing Carriers send …



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Weekly ACE System Maintenance Outages

US Customs has been running maintenance on their ACE system every Saturday night between 10:00 pm and 4:00 am Sunday morning.  The trade community has been advised to ‘plan accordingly’ …



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FDA Messaging and CBP FDA Processing Delays Reported

On Monday, CSMS message 16-00603 reported CBP wide network issues that resulted in delayed processing that began at approximately 11:00 am.  On Wednesday, the FDA Helpdesk confirmed that there was …



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CBP’s Legacy System, ACS, to be shutdown July 23rd

ACS, the system that preceded ACE, will have the majority of its functionality shut down beginning Saturday.  ACS will be set to issue errors on many electronic entry types.  Citing …



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APHIS to Conclude ACE Pilot – APHIS CORE will begin August 15th

US Customs has issued a CSMS message indicating the APHIS-ACE pilot program will be concluding and all APHIS regulated shipments must be transmitted with the new data requirements beginning August …



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REMINDER: FDA’s ITACS System not communicating with CBP’s ACE System

As a reminder to importers of food that rely on the ITACS system for FDA messaging, this system is not communicating with US Customs ACE system.  As of June 15th, …



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CBP Issues CSMS Message regarding FDA deeming rule on Tobacco Products

As communicated in CSMS message #16-000561, the FDA recently finalized a rule that expanded the products that are subject to Federal Food Drug and Cosmetic Act.   As of August …



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US Department of Commerce makes Preliminary Determination Stainless Steel Sheet and Strip CVD

On July 12th, the US Department of commerce preliminarily determined that the People’s Republic of China has subsidized the manufacturing of stainless steel sheet and strip for import into the …



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2016 Tariff Updates

The Supplemental 1 to the 2016 US Tariff schedule became available on July 1st, 2016.  This round of changes impacted many statistical headings for tariff numbers.  If you have not …



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CBP Issues CSMS Message Outlining FDA Response Time Frames in ACE

US Customs recently issued a CSMS message that outlines the time frames involved with FDA entries when they are processed through the new ACE system.  Important to note that, in …



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Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement

The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement was signed on 4 February 2016 and it is the first of the so-called ‘mega-regional’ free trade agreements (FTAs), a term which refers to deep …



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CFIA – Meat and Fish Updates

The following are available on the Canadian Food Inspection Agency website. Export requirements under section 11.7.3, Annex W – United States of the Chapter 11 of the Meat Hygiene Manual …



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Health Canada – Chemicals

The following is available on the Health Canada website. Pseudomonas fluorescens ATCC 13525 An Order amending the Domestic Substances List to apply the Significant New Activity Provisions of the Canadian …



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