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Listen to how Canada's relationships with its key trading partners are shaping the landscape of Canadian international trade. Darrel Pearson hosts a discussion with Valerie Hughes and John Weekes on Canada's trading relationship with the United States, how the CUSMA will affect Canadian businesses, trade and investment relations with China, Canada's unique position with its CPTPP and CETA partners, and the importance of the WTO to Canada.

The Canada Border Services Agency CBSA has released an updated list of trade compliance verification priorities for 2023. The CBSA periodically sets verification priorities which reflect its evaluation of the risk of non-compliance with customs regulations concerning the importation of specific categories of goods or supply chains.

Canadian exporters in various sectors sometimes face barriers created by foreign laws, regulations or their interpretation. The vast majority of impediments take the form of product regulatory requirements such as product labelling or technical specifications, and for agricultural products such as meats and grains, food safety rules. These barriers may be contrary to the importing country's obligations under international trade agreements, particularly where they vary from internationally- accepted standards. However, litigating locally may be costly, and state-to-state dispute settlement must...

The European Union will soon require EU importers of certain carbon-intensive products—specifically, iron and steel, aluminum, fertilizer, cement, electricity, and hydrogen—to declare greenhouse gas emissions GHGs embedded in their imports and pay import taxes that mirror domestic EU carbon prices. The new regulation—referred to as the carbon border adjustment mechanism or CBAM—is intended to “level the playing field” between EU producers of those products who have to pay an internal EU carbon price and foreign producers who do not. GHG reporting requirements will take effect on Oc...

The Canada Border Services Agency CBSA is proposing to fundamentally change Canadian customs valuation rules in draft amendments to the Valuation for Duty Regulations, SOR/86-792 VFD Regulations published on May 27, 2023. While the stated purpose of the draft amendments targets the valuation of goods by non-resident importers by valuing goods based on the last sale in a series of transactions resulting in the importation of goods into Canada, as drafted, the amendments will also affect Canadian resident importers.