Canada

Questions and answers about Canada

  • CANADIAN IMPORT VALUE

    Question:   CANIMPCO, a wholly-owned Canadian subsidiary of PARENTCO in Japan, agrees to buy certain auxiliary devices from PARENTCO and will consign (drop ship) them to USCO, a wholly-owned U.S. manufacturing subsidiary of PARENTCO.   USCO will configure the consigned auxiliary devices to work in conjunction with USCO goods to form complete working systems. The […]

  • CANADIAN “CROSS” SYSTEM

    Question: Does Canada have anything similar to CROSS?     As a non-resident importer, I’d like to check to ensure we are classifying products correctly according to the Canadian Tariff Schedule.  

  • Canadian Trailer Manufacturer Letter of Safety

    Question:   My company purchased a couple of trailers from a company in Canada.  We are in the oil and gas industry and these trailers are pulled behind big trucks with equipment on them.  In order to get them into the U.S. we must provide a letter from the manufacturer of the trailers saying they […]

  • EDI FEEDS TO CANADIAN BROKERS

    Question: We are considering implementation of EDI to transmit our CCI information to our Canadian Customs Broker.  We move about 4000 truckloads per year from the US to CA.  It’s a large project but with our volumes should prove beneficial in the long run.  Since EDI would eliminate extensive data entry work for the CHB […]

  • U.S. Binding Rulings in Canada

    Question:I would like to ask the membership about their experiences using US binding rulings issued by CBP for shipments going into Canada.  Were you able to use US binding rulings as justification for classifications on Canadian imports?

  • Canada Import/Export Regs

    Question: Can anyone point me in the right direction on where I can find information on Canadian Import and Export Regulations? The U.S. has the Department of State, BIS, etc…..What are the agencies for Canada?

  • CANADIAN CARNET PROCESS

    Question: Our company is going to start using a carnet to transport our tools of trade to Canada, and after the installation & testing is complete we will transport them back to USA. What I am seeking is clarification on the processing of the Carnet (as our installers will transport the goods in and out […]

  • SPLIT SHIPMENTS TO CANADA

    Question: How does the membership handle Customs invoicing issues for split shipments going into Canada? For example, we manufacture heavy industrial equipment which utilize multiple trucks to ship one order. We used the same [consolidated] commercial invoice for multiple PRO #’s. The equipment is valued under a single value for the finished product. Do we […]

  • CANADIAN GST

    Question: Our US company was a Canadian GST registrant for 18 months. The GST registration was required due to a consignment program we had set up with a Canadian customer. We have now “un”-registered our company as the consignment program has been discontinued. During our entire GST process we were “walked thru” with our Canadian […]

  • CANADIAN CUSTOMS

    We have upward of 3000 loads per year from our US parent company to our US sister company who acts as NRI into Canada. One CHB clears all the loads into Canada. We use SAP to generate all our customs invoices and either SAP or WMS to generate our BOLs. We also use a 3rd […]