U.S. exports to Canada and Mexico will increase substantially after the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement is signed, Vice President Mike Pence said during a rally in New Mexico on Aug. 21. The rally was focused on the Permian Basin oil fields and their importance to the regional economy and U.S. energy independence. Pence said that, drawing on International Trade Commission forecasts, the USMCA will cause exports to Canada to increase by $19 billion and exports to Mexico to increase by about $14 billion. He said the U.S. oil industry, which exports about 30 percent of its oil to Canada and Mexico, will also benefit. “That number is only going to increase when the USMCA is signed into law,” he said.

The government of Canada issued the following trade-related notices as of Aug. 21 (note that some may also be given separate headlines):

Canada updated its regulations under the Canada-Israel Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act (CIFTA) for rules of origin for casual goods, the country said in an Aug. 21 Canada Gazette notice. The updated regulations "implement, in Canada, the rules of origin negotiated by Canada and Israel in the modernized CIFTA that will be used to determine when goods have undergone sufficient production to qualify for preferential tariff treatment," said Canada in another notice. "The rules of origin in the modernized CIFTA were simplified, liberalized, and brought up to date with Canada’s approach in more recent free trade agreements." The CIFTA tariff preference regulations were also updated.

Canada will allow remission of customs duties paid on tires that qualify under the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership treatment, it said in a notice in the Canada Gazette, Part II. Remission will be allowed for goods classified in subheading 4011.90.90, which covers certain types of tires. "The remission is granted on the condition that the importer makes a claim for remission to the Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness within two years after the date of importation," it said.

The government of Canada issued the following trade-related notices as of Aug. 19 (note that some may also be given separate headlines):

The government of Canada issued the following trade-related notices as of Aug. 16 (note that some may also be given separate headlines):

The Canada Border Services Agency is changing procedures for submitting post-arrival amendments in e-manifest, it said in an Aug. 14 customs notice. “Effective immediately, if post-arrival amendments need to be made to key data elements on primary cargos (all modes), house bills or conveyance transmissions; or, if a cargo and/or conveyance arrival message were sent in error prior to the actual arrival, warehouse operators, carriers, freight forwarders and/or their services providers will be required to present a completed Form BSF673 in duplicate to the local CBSA commercial office,” CBSA said. “Form BSF673 must be completed and signed by an authorized representative of the client before post-arrival corrections on key data elements are processed by the CBSA,” the agency said.

Mexico is again allowing more time for importers to comply with new certificate of compliance requirements for some Mexican product standards at the time of entry, the Latin American Confederation of Customs Brokers said in a recent circular. An additional 15 days have been added to a grace period that ended Aug. 12 for importers to obtain a certificate of compliance from a recognized certification body. Until the time period expires, importers that have not yet obtained the certificate may continue their current operations unchanged, as long as they submitted their request to the certification body by May 31 and include a receipt number for the request in their entry documentation. Mexico is granting the extension because of the volume of requests that have been submitted and are still pending the conformity evaluation process, the circular said.

The Canada Border Services Agency issued a notice detailing duty eliminations and reductions in the Canadian Customs Tariff under the Canada-Costa Rica Free Trade Agreement and the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP). Both sets of changes took effect Aug. 8. The notice says remission will be granted on goods imported under subheading 4011.90.90, which is now duty-free under CPTPP, for which CPTPP treatment is claimed and that were imported Dec. 30, 2018, through Aug. 7, 2018, “provided the importer makes a claim for remission within two years after the date of importation.”

Recent editions of Mexico's Diario Oficial list trade-related notices as follows: