Non-resident importers: Tips and traps – Part I
Import Scenario One: Non-resident Importer with No Permanent Establishment – Prior Sales Agreement Each year the Canada Border Services Agency (“CBSA”) targets non-resident importers for verifications. And each year, a significant number of those non-resident importers have difficulty showing that...
Customs Verifications (Audits): Planning To Succeed[1] – Part II
The process of handling a customs verification can be an extraordinarily difficult undertaking for the uninitiated. Part I of this bulletin outlined how to prepare for a verification, what the government is looking for, the primary considerations for company counsel,...
Customs Verifications (Audits): Planning To Succeed – Part I
Introduction The process of handling a customs verification can be an extraordinarily difficult undertaking for the uninitiated. There are several types of customs verifications in Canada. They include: a multi-program verification, a single-program verification, and a transaction line review. Business-specific...
Introducing our International Trade and Customs Bulletin
Businesses engaged in international trade and customs must cope with a patchwork of legislation, policies, and rules. With members based in Toronto and Vancouver, we are uniquely well-equipped to offer services across Canada, ranging from strategic planning to dispute resolution...
Notice of Comprehensive Review of Tariff Rate Quota Administration
Tariff Rate Quotas (TRQs) form a key pillar of Canada’s supply management system and have a significant impact on Canada’s farm sector. The supply management system limits the supply of certain agricultural commodities, such as dairy, eggs and poultry, to...
New Measures to Deal With Import Surges
New safeguard measures legislation recently cleared the House of Commons and the Senate, and received Royal Assent on June 21, 2019. The enactment, which is titled An Act to amend the Customs Tariff and the Canadian International Trade Tribunal Act...
Louis Amato-Gauci is quoted in Lexpert article on international trade practice, and the industry’s constant change
2019 Lexpert Guide to US/Canada Cross-Border Lawyers in Canada, "Trade’s New Realities", 68-71
“We’ve been working forever in an atmosphere of liberal trade, and we’ve never seen anything like the current climate before. That’s what makes the practice so challenging.” Read the full article.
