Canada: Export Controls & Trade & Investment Sanctions

The Canada Border Services Agency has clarified that bonded warehouses cannot be used to defer tariff rate quota obligations or facilitate after-the-fact import permits for steel imports. Steel importers must obtain shipment-specific permits upfront and stay within daily-published quotas to avoid substantial 50% surtaxes, regardless of whether goods are placed in customs bonded warehouses.

La Cour supérieure de justice de l'Ontario a rendu une décision historique concernant le régime de sanctions canadien visant la Russie, établissant des précédents importants sur l'interprétation du test du "contrôle réputé". Cette affaire examine comment les entreprises canadiennes doivent évaluer leurs relations commerciales avec des entités potentiellement liées à des personnes ou organisations sanctionnées. Les implications de cet

The US Department of Commerce’s recent imposition in mid-June of an export licensing requirement (since lifted at end of June for select US entities) on exports, reexports, and in-country transfers of Anthropic’s Claude Mythos 5 Model and Claude Fable 5 Model to all destinations worldwide and to “all foreign persons” is a stark reminder of how export controls may go beyond the control of physical goods and also apply to intangible goods such as software, AI models, or technology transfers in the cloud. More recent news about AI models going rogue and a proposed bipartisan “AI Kill Switch” bill introduced by two US congressmen foreshadow additional controls in the near future.