Global Affairs Canada

1.1 The purposes of this Notice are: a) to inform importers of the Minister’s policies and practices respecting the administration of the tariff rate quota (TRQ) for Broiler Hatching Eggs and Chicks for chicken production. It should be read with the Import Allocation Regulations and the Import...

1.1 The purpose of this Notice is to inform importers of amendments to the steel import monitoring program. A reporting and record keeping requirement has been added as a term and condition to the General Import Permits (GIPs) No. 80 and 81 for importing certain steel goods that are listed in...

1.1 The purpose of this Notice is to: set out the policies and practices pertaining to the administration of the CPTPP dairy TRQ; invite applications for allocation under the TRQ for the next allocation year; and explain how to apply for permits for imports of dairy.

1.1 The purpose of this Notice is to inform importers of the rules and procedures governing the administration of the tariff rate quotas (TRQs) for wheat, barley and their products.

This Notice to Exporters is to inform exporters of the Minister’s decision respecting the allocation methodology and provide the eligibility criteria for export allocations of certain Softwood Lumber Products first manufactured in Quebec, Ontario, Manitoba and Saskatchewan and exported to the...

1.1 The purpose of this Notice is to inform importers of the procedures governing the administration of safeguards, in the form of tariff rate quotas (TRQ), for certain steel goods that are listed in item 82 on the Import Control List (ICL). 1.2 These goods are included on the ICL to implement...

1.1 The purpose of this Notice is to inform importers of the procedures governing the administration of provisional safeguards, in the form of tariff rate quotas (TRQ), for certain steel goods that are listed in item 82 on the Import Control List (ICL).

2.1 The purpose of this Notice to Exporters is to advise softwood lumber exporters of changes to the export permit requirements in order to implement the Canada – United States Softwood Lumber Agreement 2006 (Agreement), and to describe a number of important elements of the Agreement. 2.2...

2.1 The purpose of this Notice is to advise importers that the wheat products tariff rate quota (TRQ) will be filled on October 26, 2012. Consequently, October 26 , 2012 (at 11:59 p.m.) will be the cut-off date for accounting for imports of all wheat products classified under a “within access...

1.1 The purpose of this Notice is to advise importers that the barley products tariff rate quota (TRQ) will be filled on October 12, 2012. Consequently, October 12, 2012 (at 11:59 pm) will be the cut-off date for accounting for imports of all barley products classified under a "within access...

U.S./Canada Data Reconciliation Refined Sugar and Sugar-Containing Products.

1.1 The purpose of this Notice is: To inform importers that the steel import monitoring programme has been extended to August 31, 2008. 1.2 This Notice extends previous notices to importers concerning the steel import monitoring programme, including the Notice to Importers of March 12, 2001. 1.3...

CETA origin quota utilization tables

Since 2003, the World Bank publishes the Ease of Doing Business (EDB) Index aimed at measuring the regulatory efficiency and institutional quality of key processes that affect the business environment in a given economy. While highly influential, particularly in the developing world, the EDB has...

2019: This report provides a comprehensive summary of the main developments in Canada’s commercial activities during the previous year. It describes the events that took place in the global economy and trade in 2018, the main developments in Canada’s economy and those of its most important...

On September 21, 2017, the Canada-European Union Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA), Canada’s most ambitious trade agreement since the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), provisionally entered into force. The 27 European Union members and the United Kingdom (referred as...

This study focuses on the diversity of merchandise exports by product. Export diversity by product is important to hedge against price shocks and sector-specific drops in demand. Product diversity is also important for ensuring that a positive shock in demand or price for a given product does not...

Online news can easily deceive even the most vigilant individuals. Take Deepa, for example: She received a notification on her phone announcing a week-long holiday declared by the government due to an abnormal cold wave. Quickly, she shared the news with her colleagues and friends, only to...

Steel Import Monitoring Program Reports: Imports of certain steel products into Canada are subject to controls under Canada’s Export and Import Permits Act (EIPA).

The containment measures enacted to combat the COVID-19 pandemic was one of the factor that left heavy negative impacts on Canadian exports and other aspects of the Canadian economy in 2020. An interesting feature of the “COVID-19 downturn” is the exceptionally large month to month variation in...