On 21st June 2019, Bill C-101, An Act to amend the Customs Tariff and the Canadian International Trade Tribunal Act, received Royal Assent and became law in Canada. It sped through the legislative process in the House of Commons and the Senate in just sixteen days, having been introduced for First Reading in the House of Commons… Continue reading Law to Suspend Canada’s WTO Obligations Concerning Safeguards Receives Royal…
On 3rd June 2019, the Department of Finance issued a news release announcing that the Government of Canada has introduced a “Notice of Ways and Means Motion that would temporarily amend the Customs Tariff to remove the two-year moratorium on the imposition of safeguard measures on imports previously subject to safeguards”. On 10th October 2018, the Government of Canada made… Continue reading The Government of Canada Introduces Legislation to Temporarily Remove the…
On Wednesday 29th May 2019, the Honourable Chrystia Freeland, Canada’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, presented a “ways and means” motion to the House of Commons that paved the way for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to introduce Bill C-100, “An Act to implement the Agreement between Canada, the United States of America and the United Mexican States” (the “CUSMA Implementation Act”),… Continue reading Legislation to Implement the CUSMA / USMCA / T-MEC Introduced…
On Wednesday 29th May 2019, the Government of Canada published an Order in Council that grants a refund of the provisional steel safeguard surtax of 25 percent that was paid by importers on shipments of concrete reinforcing bar (rebar), energy tubular products, hot-rolled steel sheet, pre-painted steel, and wire rod entering Canada between 25th October… Continue reading Government of Canada Announces Refunds of Provisional Steel Safeguard Surtax
On the afternoon of Friday 17th May 2019, the United States and Canada issued a joint statement to announce that the U.S. tariffs imposed on Canadian steel and aluminum products under section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 (the “section 232 tariffs”) and the countermeasures imposed by Canada in the form of retaliatory tariffs on U.S. steel,… Continue reading Agreement to Eliminate the U.S. Section 232 Tariffs on Canadian…
On Thursday 16th May 2019, the Canadian International Trade Tribunal published a notice of the commencement of an inquiry regarding exclusion requests concerning certain heavy steel plate and stainless steel wire products subject to the final safeguard measures that were imposed on Monday 13th May. This notice is further to an Order in Council made Thursday 9th… Continue reading Exclusion Inquiry Commenced Concerning Heavy Steel Plate and Stainless Steel…
Further to the report issued by the Canadian International Trade Tribunal on 3rd April 2019 in Safeguard Inquiry No. GC-2018-001 (Certain Steel Goods), final safeguard measures were imposed on imports of heavy steel plate products and stainless steel wire products as of Monday 13th May. The final safeguard measures were not announced until Friday 10th May in… Continue reading Final Safeguard Measures Imposed on Imports of Heavy Steel Plate…
At the end of the day on Friday 26th April, the Department of Finance published a news release regarding the “Final Safeguards to be Imposed to Protect Canadian Steel Workers”. Recalling the Canadian International Trade Tribunal’s finding that “final safeguards are warranted for imports of heavy plate and stainless steel wire”, the news release serves… Continue reading Department of Finance Announces Government’s “Intent to Enact Final Safeguards”
On 17 April 2019, U.S. Secretary of State Pompeo announced that the suspensions that have applied to the civil remedies provisions in Title III of the Cuban Liberty and Democratic Solidarity (LIBERTAD) Act of 1996 since its inception will not be continued and civil remedies will be available to certain United States nationals effective on May 2nd. In general… Continue reading On May 2nd Canadian Companies Doing Business in Cuba Could…
On 3 April 2019 the Canadian International Trade Tribunal issued its awaited ruling in the steel safeguard inquiry. The Tribunal was directed to conduct a safeguard inquiry concerning the importation into Canada of seven categories of steel products: (1) heavy steel plate, (2) concrete reinforcing bar, (3) energy tubular products; (4) hot-rolled sheet, (5) pre-painted steel,… Continue reading Canadian International Trade Tribunal Finds Safeguard Measures Warranted for 2…
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