CBSA to End CSA Requirement for Trusted Trader Program
The Canada Border Services Agency will relax a requirement that Free and Secure Trade (FAST) program members must first be part of the Customs Self Assessment, the agency said in a Dec. 9 customs notice. “Under the expansion of the…
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FAST Membership criteria, the CBSA will extend FAST lane eligibility to highway carriers and importers who are sole members of the Partners in Protection (PIP) program,” it said. The agency will also use “two new notices that are generated pre-arrival to advise a carrier that a shipment is eligible or ineligible to use the FAST lane at the reporting port of entry,” it said. The change is effective on Dec. 9.