On June 30, 2017, Global Affairs Canada issued Notice to Exporters No. 12 “Amendment to Area Control List (removal of Belarus)”. On May 13, 2016, Global Affairs had announced that it would “initiate the regulatory process to remove Belarus from the Area Control List (ACL)”. It took over a year to get
On June 20, 2017, Hon. Diane Lebouthiller (Minister of National Revenue) tabled (see page 13032 of Hansard) the 2016 Annual Report to Parliament on the Administration of the Export and Import Permits Act (the “2016 Annual Export Controls Report”) The Report is required under Standing Order 32(2) and section 27 of the Export
Canada’s Magnitsky Act is not yet law. Bill S-226 “Justice for Victims of Corrupt Foreign Officials Act (Sergei Magnitsky Law)” started as a Senate bill and has passed third reading in Canada’s Senate on April 11, 2017. On April 13, 2017, Bill S-226 passed first reading in Canada’s House of Commons and passed
On February 10, 2017, the CBC posted an article entitled “PayPal freezes Canadian media company’s account over story about Syrian family“. A community newspaper (Flin Flon Reminder) in Canada saw PayPal freeze its account. What prompted the freeze was the local newspaper entering an article entitled “Syrian family adapts to new life”
On February 9, 2017, Stewart Bell wrote an article for the Financial Post entitled “Canadian company investigating branch in Iraq after logo spotted in photos of missile test“. It is never good to see your company name in the news – let alone being associated with a missile test in a
Mistakes happen. While the majority of Canadian companies want to comply with Canada’s export controls and economic sanctions laws, violations can occur. Often when there is an economic sanctions violation, there is also an export controls violation at the same time. Sometimes, there are export controls violations without an economic sanction violation.
There are three
At the present time, Canada has two bills (one in the Senate and one Private Member’s bill) that are Magnitsky laws. Senate Bill S-226 “An Act to provide for the taking of restrictive measures in respect of foreign nationals responsible for gross violations of internationally recognized human rights and to make related amendments to the
On January 24, 2017, the Federal Court of Canada issued its judicial review decision in Daniel Turp v. The Minister of Foreign Affairs, T-462-16. The Federal Court dismissed an application for judicial review of the decision of the Minister of Foreign Affairs to approve an export permit in respect of the export of General
I am often asked why export controls and economic sanctions are important. The simple answer is that if you export a controlled good or export goods to a sanctioned country, your company could become front page news. If that should happen because your company manufactured and sold goods that are used to kill a Canadian
An Export Control List Item Number (the “ECL Item Number”) is the Canadian identification or classification number that must be provided on export permit applications made under the Export and Import Permits Act and, if the good is subject to economic sanctions, requests for ministerial authorizations. All goods that are subject to Canada’s export controls