Canada’s Brokering Controls (Export and Import Permits Act, Brokering Control List, Brokering Permit Regulations...

Canada’s Brokering Controls (Export and Import Permits Act, Brokering Control List, Brokering Permit Regulations, Regulations Specifying Activities that Do Not Constitute Brokering, General Brokering Permit No. 1)

Purpose

1. The purpose of this Notice is to advise brokers that, pursuant to Bill C-47, An Act to amend the Export and Import Permits Act and the Criminal Code (amendments permitting the accession to the Arms Trade Treaty and other amendments), Canada’s brokering controls are in force as of September 1, 2019. These brokering controls are set out in four regulations enacted under the amended Export and Import Permits Act (EIPA):...

What is brokering?

3. Bill C-47 amended the Export and Import Permits Act (EIPA) to define brokering in the following way: “to broker means to arrange or negotiate a transaction that relates to the movement of goods or technology included on the Brokering Control List from a foreign country to another foreign country.” This is an activity-based definition that targets the actions that lead to the movement of controlled items from one third country to another third country...

This 23 August 2019 notice is available in its entirety from Global Affairs.