Program directory · Canada Border Services Agency

Trade Facilitation and Compliance

Department: Canada Border Services Agency
Program code: BUF13 (CBSA)
Core responsibility: Border Management
In Departmental Plans: 2022-23 – 2026-27 · New since an earlier plan

What it does

The Program provides leadership, direction and management for the delivery of the national trade program by ensuring that import duties and taxes owed to the Government of Canada are accurately assessed and the trading community is in compliance with domestic legislation and international trade agreements governing trade in goods. Through its work at the World Customs Organization (WCO) and on free trade negotiations, the program supports and strengthens international rules related to trade. The Trade Facilitation and Compliance program administers legislation, regulations and international free trade agreements, as well as develops and administers the regulations, policies, procedures, partnerships and national programs that facilitate the import and export of legitimate goods within established service standards, into and out of Canada. This includes the design, development and maintenance of trade policy for goods being imported into or exported out of Canada as well as developing tools, training materials and guidance to support the regional delivery of these core programs. The program works with its external partners to promote voluntary compliance; to use risk assessment information at the border; and to conduct post-border compliance verifications.

Source: the department's Program Inventory, via GC InfoBase.

History and lineage

First appears in GC InfoBase's actual spending by program in 2022-23. The data does not record when a program was created; it may be older than its first appearance here, which is limited by the sources (program spending starts in 2010-11, Departmental Plans in 2018-19).

Bars: spending by fiscal year (dark: actual; light: actual restated on the 2017-18 program structure; outlined: the latest plan's forecast; grey: related programs). Bands: each program in the lineage over the years it has data.

Program	Relation	Years with data	Actual spending over those years
Trade Facilitation and Compliance	This program	2022-23 – 2028-29	$202M

No earlier or later program in the same department has a similar name.

Significant changes in scope and budget

Detected from the data: renames between plans, programs it appears to replace, merge with or split into (matched by name), year-over-year changes in spending of at least 25% and $5M, or in employees of at least 20% and 25 FTEs, linked budget measures, and results indicators added or dropped.

Year	What changed	Source
2023-24	Indicators added: Percentage of revenue-based risk-assessed trade compliance verifications that yield a result	Departmental Results Framework (GC InfoBase)
2026-27	Indicators added: Percentage of Commercial Accounting Declaration (CAD) adjustments that are processed within 90 calendar days of receipt of a claim and all requisite supporting documentation; Percentage of drawback claims processed within 90 calendar days of receipt of a correctly completed and documented application; Percentage of duties relief applications that are processed no later than 90 calendar days from the date of receipt of a correctly completed and supported application	Departmental Results Framework (GC InfoBase)

Success criteria

The program's indicators from its department's Departmental Results Framework: the target set in each year's plan, and the result reported the following year. Source: GC InfoBase.

Historical: targets against results

Percentage of Advance Rulings and National Customs Rulings issued within 120 days of receipt of full information