Submitting information to the Canada Border Services Agency in a Special Import Measures Act proceeding

When providing information to the CBSA

Please ensure that each document is labelled confidential (protected) or non-confidential (public) on every page within the document and within the electronic title. This will aid in the filing of your information with the Trade Remedies Registry, and avoid any confusion regarding the intended treatment of your information.

If not already included in your submission, you are required to complete and submit a signed Certificate of veracity, accuracy and completeness. If you are including confidential information in your submission, a signed Designation of confidential information is required.

Method of submitting your information

Note The Canada Border Services Agency has an Anti-dumping and countervailing e-filing (ACE) web application, which is a digital self-service tool for interested parties to submit and access information related to proceedings under the Special Import Measures Act (SIMA).

With the new ACE web application, once users have registered for an account, they can easily submit and access information related to anti-dumping and countervailing duty proceedings that have been initiated by CBSA, using the ACE web application.

• The web application is accessible from the CBSA’s Anti-dumping and countervailing web page
• Hardcopies (paper), USB keys or CD submissions will not be accepted
• Your response must be in either English or French. Any source material that you provide must be in the document’s original language and must be accompanied by a translation in either English or French

Electronic naming requirement to upload documents using secure e-filing

• Please ensure that the electronic filename contains the word public, non-confidential, non confidentiel, protected, protégé, confidential or confidentiel. Otherwise the document will not be added to the list of files.
• Filenames which include a full stop (".") cannot be added to the list. This restriction applies only to the selected electronic filename and not the file extension, i.e. .pdf, .doc, etc.

Upload limits

• Users can submit up to 500 files per submission with each file no larger than 1 GB. The total upload limit is 4 GB per submission and 50 GB per day. Larger files will take longer to upload.
• Acceptable file types for supporting documentation include: .pdf .mp3 .wav .bmp .gif .jpeg .jpg .png .xls .xlsx .xlsm .csv .msg .ppt .pptx .pptm .vsd .doc .docx .docm .txt .xml .zip

For further information about the requirements for making a submission through the ACE web application, or downloading information, please consult the ACE web application user guide or contact us: trade_remedies_registry-registre_recours_commerciaux@cbsa-asfc.gc.ca