Administrative Monetary Penalties

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On March 19, 2020, the Canada Border Services Agency (“CBSA”) released Customs Notice 20-10 “Waiver of Late accounting Penalties”  granting relief during the COVID-19 crisis.  The notice provides that certain late fees (also known as administrative monetary penalties (“AMPs”)) and late accounting penalties are being waived for transactions released between March 11, 2020, to May…

The Canada Border Services Agency (“CBSA”) has released its H2 2019 customs verification priories.  The valuation verification (also known as an audit) targets are apparel and footwear.  This is the third round of audit targeting for apparel and the second round of audit targeting for footwear.  If you import the items, you should expect…

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Truckers (highway commercial carriers) can appeal the imposition of administrative monetary penalties (AMPs) imposed by the Canada Border Services Agency (“CBSA”) for failure to meet advance commercial information (ACI) reporting requirements.  The appeals are filed with the CBSA, Recourse Directorate.  We spoke to a source at the Recourse Direcotrate this week who informed us that…

Canada CustomsJanuary 11, 2016 is E-Day – the day Canada will start to impose administrative monetary penalties (“AMPS”) for failure by highway carriers and rail carriers to have satisfied e-Manifest filing requirements.  What are e-Manifest requirements?  E-Manifest requirements are national security measures established by the Canada Border Services Agency (“CBSA”) and require that persons carrying cargo…

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Greeting words around 2016 year

I do not know for certain what will happen in 2016 in terms of Canadian trade issues.  However, I can make a few educated predictions:

1. Canada will continue its economic sanctions against Russia and may add new designated persons in 2016.  The Trudeau Government may…