Message to Industry and to Brokers
In order to ensure an orderly transition between quota years, allocation holders who had an allocation under the previous year’s Beef and Veal TRQ are normally issued advances up to a maximum of 30% of their previous year’s import allocations.
This memorandum outlines the conditions under which apparel samples qualify for customs duty-free entry under tariff item 9936.00.00.
Revisions to this memorandum update the terms of tariff item 9936.00.00 and the definition of "apparel".
This memorandum lists the laboratory methods which have been jointly accepted by the customs laboratories of Canada, Mexico, and the United States to achieve inter-laboratory consistency in the analysis of goods for customs purposes. Additional methods will be added to the list as agreement is reached by the laboratories of the three countries.
"The great fall of China,” the title of an article in The Economist, sums up recent market sentiment toward China. To point, there’s a lot of falling going on. Equity markets crashed hard. The Chinese yuan was devalued, sparking fears of a currency war. Some speculate that China’s massive debt bomb is about to explode. To top it off, economic growth is sputtering and there are recession fears.
Canada shed more jobs than expected in November, while exports tumbled in October, suggesting the economy was off to a weak start in the final quarter of 2015 after just recently emerging from a mild recession.
