- Client Login
- Tracking
- BORDER WAIT TIMES
-
About
Us -
Canadian Customs
Brokerage -
U.S. Customs
Brokerage
Management
Served
Resources
Bulletins
ARL Update – News from recent ARL Working Group (ARLWG) meetings
1. Centralization of payment update. Almost all brokers are paying centrally. 100% of all payments are now being allocated by HQ staff. Most importers with their own ASECs who usually pay CBSA directly have been contacted by CBSA regarding centralized payment. As this is the long range strategy of CBSA we encourage you to start to pay your month end settlement directly to CBSA.
2. By July, all of the major banks should offer EDI and online banking.
3. CBSA issued one ARL bulletin over the past two weeks.
- ARL Bulletin 36- Payments by Non-Resident Importers. CBSA is considering whether payments for an NRI with his own ASEC can be included in a broker’s EDI payment. We will keep you advised as information becomes available
4. Re-tagging of Credits. Credits will stay within an importer’s account but those tagged for consultants or importers who have no debt may be retagged as broker filed. The CSCB will be hosting a webinar on this subject and others on July 19.
5. Transition to new Payment Policy. CBSA is proposing the following:
a. That there be no more SOA payments at local CBSA offices. A monitoring of related volumes will take place at the end of June. The exception to this rule will be B2s with cheques. Because there is no proof of payment for a particular payable B2 when it is paid as part of an SOA payment and no guarantee that a particular transaction will be allocated full payment, it is recommended currently that payments for a singular transaction be paid at a local CBSA office.
b. Today according to the rules in place, an importer without his own ASEC must provide certified cheques if the amount owing to CBSA is $2500 or more. However, this has not been enforced. CBSA has proposed to raise that amount to $5000 and is moving toward active enforcement. No deadline has been set for the enforcement of this requirement but unsecured importers who present uncertified cheques to the Receiver General for amounts over $5000 may receive an advice note from CBSA regarding this policy. Please contact us about these payments which will either have to be certified of direct payment
c. CBSA also wants to move the payment deadline to 4pm on the SOA due date and mandate electronic payment as soon as possible for amounts over $50,000. Because all brokers do not have access to electronic payment options and the challenge to transition clients to new payment procedures is significant, the CSCB is opposed to this change at this time. CBSA has agreed that the setting of a date for this change is not appropriate at this time. This will mean that we will have to have your payment in our hands no later than 11am of the last business day in order for us to Courier the payment to Ottawa to avoid late accounting penalty. Again this is a step towards everyone going on direct payment
d. IOR correction procedures. The procedure to be followed when the broker does not represent both of the implicated importers will involve the filing of a voluntary B3 by the correct importer or his broker. We hope to see the revised bulletin issued within the next two weeks. CBSA is also reviewing the process associated with IOR amendments for CLVS
As ARL is a small piece of the CARM initiative which by 2020 CBSA may require all Importers to have their own Bond (Same as US) and will require all payments directly (no cheques).