First annual progress reports issued on the Beyond the Border and Regulatory Cooperation Council Action Plans Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Barack Obama, President of the United States, today welcomed the release of the first annual Beyond the Border Action Plan Implementation Report and the Canada-United States Regulatory Cooperation Council (RCC) Joint Action Plan Progress [...]
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano announced earlier this week the release of the DHS Northern Border Strategy (NBS). The NBS is the first unified DHS strategy to guide the Department’s policies and operations along the U.S.-Canada border - providing a framework for enhancing security and resiliency while expediting lawful travel and trade throughout the Northern border [...]
Free FITT Webinar: April 25 In the past decade, there have been numerous official pronouncements about border improvements. The most recent and comprehensive of these is the Border Action Plan. Canada’s customs brokers are on trade’s front line, and the organization that represents them is engaged in making sense of the many plans, announcements and [...]
The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) is providing advance notice to Information Technology (IT) suppliers regarding its efforts to put the Action Plan for Perimeter Security and Economic Competitiveness to work for Canada. The CBSA will post a communique on MERX, Canada’s electronic tendering service, this week as a heads up to IT suppliers to [...]
Jason Myers, President and CEO of Canadian Manufacturers & Exporters When Prime Minister Stephen Harper and President Barack Obama announced their shared vision for perimeter security and economic competitiveness in February, many people immediately wrote off the exercise as another in a long line of attempts to “fix” border irritants between our countries. This was [...]
Canada’s new border deal with the United States could lead to fewer missed connections at the airport, more American law-enforcement officials working on Canadian soil, harmonized U.S. standards for prescription drugs, new names for cuts of meat and fewer inspections of food cargo as both governments strive to ensure better information sharing and less red [...]
Beyond the Border initiative mired by complexities in both countries In a paper released yesterday by The School of Public Policy at the University of Calgary, policy advisor and international lawyer Brian Flemming examines Canada-U.S. efforts to create a more porous border between the two countries. He finds that despite the best of intentions on [...]
(CME via Marketwire) Governments on both sides of the Canada-US border must take decisive action to respond to the competitive challenges facing manufacturers and the economy, according to a joint statement released today by North America’s top two industry groups. Canadian Manufacturers & Exporters (CME) and the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) are calling on [...]
