16.01.14Canada's e-Manifest Penalties Now in Force

With the implementation of eManifest by the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA), highway carriers and railways transporting goods into Canada are required to transmit cargo and conveyance data electronically to the CBSA prior to arrival. The cargo and conveyance data must be received and validated by the CBSA a minimum of one hour before the shipment arrives at the border and two hours before arrival for rail shipments.

Effective Monday January 11, 2016, carriers who do not comply with eManifest requirements may be issued monetary penalties under the CBSA’s Administrative Monetary Penalty System (AMPS) and will experience processing delays, the CBSA said.

For freight forwarders, electronic filing is not mandatory but shipping lines have been required to electronically transmit manifest data 24 hours before loading.