Parrish & Heimbecker Limited Fax

Parrish & Heimbecker, Limited
1 Yonge Street, Suite 1001
Toronto Ontario
M5B 1B5

From: Fax No. (416) 363-7957
To: Fax No. (613) 996-7621
Date: September 8, 1994
Sender: D.A. Clark

PLEASE DELIVER THE FOLLOWING:

To: Chuck Cardick
Company: Agri-Food & Agriculture Canada

Message:

We are in receipt of your notice tot he industry that effective September 2nd the attached export requirements must be fulfilled.

It should be also noted that we received this notice from the International Grains Bureau on September 2nd, i.e. the same date these requirements will take effect.

On receipt of this notice we immediately notified all our truckers and buyers that your requirements had to be fulfilled.

With this in mind we carried on with our truck shipments to the U.S. from Ontario on Tuesday, September 6th and instructed our truckers to leave the proper documentation with Revenue Canada Customs office oat the Bluewater Bridge in Sarnia.

Our truckers are now reporting that Revenue Canada Customs personnel at Sarnia say that they do not have to have, nor do they want, the documentation that you are requesting, or demanding, in the aforementioned notice to the industry.

In fact some of the personnel in Sarnia are refusing to accept these documents that we are now required to submit.

How can we possibly comply with your rules and regulations if your offices of Revenue Canada customs are not aware of them, nor will they accept our documentation?

With the above in mind we want to go on record that under no circumstances will we be held liable for any fines or penalties that might be imposed under the new Customs Act.

For your information and guidance we have now instructed further that our truckers must have the Canadian Customs office sign that they have received a copy of the proper Export Documentation for each and every load we are shipping to the U.S.A.

Would you please confirm in writing your acknowledgment of receipt of this fax along with an acknowledgment stating that we will be exempt from any penalties for shipments made from September 2ne until your offices at Revenue Canada Customs are notified of your new rules and regulations.

Yours truly,
PARRISH & HEIMBECKER, LIMITED

D.A. Clark
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