Blog Posts

 

 

The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA)’s Assessment and Revenue Management project (CARM) is a large, multi-year project focused on transforming how the CBSA assesses, collects, manages and reports on import revenue and trade information. Among its goals is the simplification of accounting systems with the agency’s commercial trade partners.

 

 

The Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System (HS) is the internationally recognized system for coding and describing products for trade. The HS was developed and is maintained by the World Customs Organization (WCO).

 

Canadian importers and exporters can now count Ukraine among the nations with which they can engage in duty-free trade.

The Canada-EU Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) finally has an implementation date. 

 

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker made a joint statement on the weekend [July 8] announcing that the provisional application of the massive deal will come into effect on September 21. Trudeau and Juncker were among dozens of world leaders gathered for the G20 summit meeting in Hamburg, Germany last week.

 

Businesses large and small depend on digital information transfer to facilitate commercial transactions all along the supply chain – from handling inquiries to placing orders to electronic payment and shipping.

 

The internet has become an enabler of commercial global enterprise – organizations can now move information faster than products because doing so can give them a competitive edge.