CBSA to Again Postpone End of Release Types PARS/RMD
The Canada Border Services Agency plans to again push back the sunset date for legacy release options as part of the Single Window Initiative and Integrated Import Declaration transition, a CBSA spokesman said by email on March 26. Other Government Departments (OGD) service options pre-arrival review system (PARS), or SO 463, and release on minimum documentation (RMD), or SO 471, were set for decommissioning on April 1, 2019, CBSA announced last year. CBSA recently told members of the trade that the sunset date for OGD PARS (SO 463) and OGD RMD (SO 471) will now be in October.
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CBSA said it "will proceed with a phased decommissioning of service options 463 and 471 once technical pieces that are preventing the full utilization of service option 911 (IID) are resolved," according to a blog post from Farrow. "These include goods that are regulated by more than one PGA and some PGA exception codes. A fix for these issues is planned for the end of April, after which testing will be available." Farrow's blog post included a summary of a call with the trade that was summarized by the Canadian Society of Customs Brokers. A CBSA spokesman confirmed that account.
While CBSA required on-boarding of the SWI IID (SO 911) by Jan. 1 this year, the decommissioned service options would make SWI the required system, Livingston said in a blog post. "CBSA has delayed the mandatory go-live date of April 1," the company said. The transition effort has been a lengthy process and is meant to align the "Canadian and U.S. import processing procedures under the Beyond the Border Action Plan," Livingston said.