Canada Customs Latest SIMA Updates [July 4]

Trade Update • April 4, 2024

CBSA Re-investigates Oil country tubular goods and seamless casing SIMA cases

he Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) announced on June 27, 2024, that it has launched a re-investigation of the OCTG1, OCTG2 and SC SIMA cases currently in force.

Note: Exporters who provide a complete, accurate and timely responses to the CBSA’s request for information (RFI), will be considered cooperative and be provided with normal values. In such case, anti-dumping duties would not apply to imports of subject goods from these exporters which are sold to Canada at or above the normal values issued by CBSA.

Re-investigations are conducted periodically by the CBSA to update normal values, export prices or amounts of subsidy and to establish values for new exporters or new models to ensure that the values in place accurately reflect current market conditions.

Full details regarding this normal value review are available here.

CBSA reviews normal values of steel plate exporter from China

The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) announced on June 19, 2024, that it has launched a normal value review of goods subject to the Steel plate 3 SIMA case, exported to Canada by RIMEX Wuxi Wheel Ltd of China.

Note: Should the exporter decide to participate in this review, they are required to provide complete and accurate responses to the CBSA’s Request for Information (RFI) by July 26, 2024.

Full details regarding this normal value review are available here.

Normal value reviews are conducted by CBSA to update normal values, export prices or amounts of subsidy of single exporters as necessary, to ensure that these values accurately reflect current market conditions.

Government of Canada commences an expiry review of certain Silicon Metal from China

The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) and the Canadian International Trade Tribunal (CITT) on June 25, 2024, commenced an expiry review of the Silicon metal SIMA case currently in force.

As part of its expiry review investigation, the CBSA has solicited responses to questionnaires from Canadian producers, importers, exporters and the Government of China. Any Canadian producers, importers or exporters who have not received a letter from the CBSA who wish to provide a response to the questionnaire are advised to contact the CBSA SIMA Registry and Disclosure Unit by email. Responses to all questionnaires are due at the CBSA SIMA Registry and Disclosure Unit’s email address by August 1, 2024.

Expiry reviews are conducted jointly by the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) and the Canadian International Trade Tribunal (CITT) to determine if a SIMA measure will be rescinded after 5 years in force or will be continued for another 5 years. These reviews must be initiated before the scheduled expiry date of the measure.

• Full details regarding CBSA’s expiry review investigation is available here.
• Full details regarding CITT’s portion of the expiry review is available here.

CBSA concludes SIMA re-investigation of certain Gypsum Board

The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) announced on June 20, 2024, that it has concluded a re-investigation of the Gypsum board SIMA case currently in force.

During the course of the re-investigation, two exporters, namely, Saint-Gobain Gypsum USA, Inc. and Georgia-Pacific Gypsum LLC and their related importers, provided sufficient information in response to the CBSA’s RFIs. On-site verifications were conducted at the premises of the two exporters located in the United States as well as their respective related importers. Another exporter, United States Gypsum Company (USG) and its related importer, CGC Inc., also responded to the CBSA’s RFIs; however, the CBSA determined that the information provided by USG was deficient for the purposes of this re-investigation.

Full details regarding conclusion of the re-investigation, including a list of the co-operative exporters are available here.

Note: Importers are reminded that, if using the services of a customs broker to clear their importations, the broker should be advised whether or not the goods are subject to anti-dumping and countervailing duties, and be provided with sufficient information necessary to accurately assess SIMA applicability.

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