Canadian Government Notices as of May 7
The government of Canada recently issued the following trade-related notices as of May 7(some may also be given separate headlines):
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- Export of arms: Bill C-47 to amend the Export and Import Permits Act. The minister of foreign affairs in April introduced Bill C-47, which proposes legislative amendments to the Export and Import Permits Act and one section of the Criminal Code that would regulate brokering and create a legal requirement to take into account a number of considerations before authorizing the export of arms.
- Certain concrete reinforcing bar. The Canada Border Services Agency on May 4 concluded the reinvestigation to update the normal values and export prices with respect to certain concrete reinforcing bar (rebar) originating in or exported from China, South Korea and Turkey (Rebar 1), and originating in or exported from Belarus, Taiwan, the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of China, Japan, the Portugal and Spain (Rebar 2), and the amounts of subsidy of certain rebar originating in or exported from China, in accordance with the Special Import Measures Act.