Importers in the retail and consumer products sectors should be carefully reviewing their trade compliance policies and procedures as Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) is scrutinizing customs compliance in a number of areas…more
Most of Canada's economic sanctions against Burma (Myanmar) have been repealed effective today. Enacted in 2007 and touted as being among the most aggressive in the world, Canada's sanctions and export controls prohibited most…more
Effective today, Canada has taken additional steps to impose economic sanctions against Syria by imposing a ban on financial services and targeting transactions involving the Central Bank of Syria as well as additional listed…more
Canada’s customs authority, the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA), continues to exercise its broad authority under the Customs Act and the Export and Import Permits Act to engage in numerous searches, detentions, seizures,…more
On December 19, Foreign Affairs and International Trade's Export Controls Division (ECD) announced a number of changes to the Export Control List (ECL) which are effective December 16, 2011. These changes will not be published…more
On November 21, 2011, Canada announced new sanctions against Iran in coordination with authorities in the United States and the United Kingdom. These sanctions, implemented in response to the November 9, 2011 International…more
The guilty plea of Calgary-based Niko Resources Ltd. represents the most significant development in Canada’s efforts to fight foreign bribery since the 1999 implementation of Canada’s Corruption of Foreign Public…more
Yesterday, the Canadian government announced new sanctions against Syria which include targeted measures involving the petroleum industry and prohibitions on dealings with additional designated individuals and entities. …more
On September 23, 2011, Canada amended its Libyan sanctions regime to implement recent steps taken by the United Nations Security Council significantly relaxing measures imposed against Libya. Canadian companies should be…more
On June 24, 2011, after entering a plea of guilty to a charge of bribing a foreign public official, Calgary-based Niko Resources Ltd. (Niko) was sentenced to a fine of approximately $9.5 million and placed on three years’…more
On May 24, 2011, the Canadian government announced the immediate imposition of economic sanctions against Syria. The measures include an asset freeze against persons associated with the current Syrian regime and entities…more
Today, the U.S. State Department’s Directorate of Defense Trade Controls (DDTC) published in the Federal Register
the final rule containing its long-awaited amendments to the International Traffic in Arms Regulations…more
Canada has implemented new economic sanctions measures targeting activities involving certain “politically exposed foreign persons”.
The measures prohibit dealing directly or indirectly in any property of such…more
On February 27, 2011, the Canadian government announced the application of economic sanctions against Libya, following similar moves by the United States and the European Union. In addition to measures that implement United…more
On February 2, 2011, Canada's Export Controls Division (ECD) announced the availability of a new multidestination export permit for the export or transfer of information security goods and technology to the countries of the…more
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