Canada Border Services Agency
The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) facilitates the flow of legitimate travellers and trade. The agency also enforces more than 100 acts and regulations that keep our country and Canadians safe.
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Strengthening border security
Canada's plan to strengthen, secure and efficiently manage our borders.

Recruitment campaign underway
Are you interested in working as a border services officer? We are now accepting applications.
- CBSA investigation leads to conviction of individual for immigration-related offences
- Minister David McGuinty to visit CBSA Commercial Air Cargo facility in the GTA, Ontario
- **Event cancelled due to inclement weather in Halifax, NS.** Minister David McGuinty to visit CBSA Marine Centre of Expertise in Halifax, Nova Scotia
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Travel
Crossing the border into Canada
Reporting and customs requirements. Processes, programs and tools for visitors and residents.
Travel documents
Bring the right identification and citizenship documents to the border for yourself and your family.
Traveller Modernization: New tools and technologies for a faster, better and safe experience at the border
We are putting in place new tools and technologies, and updating processes, laws and policies to build the border of the future.
Smart and secure border tools for travel and trade
The latest technologies to help people and goods move across the border more seamlessly and securely.
Trade
Importing goods
Guidance, reporting requirements, advance rulings, valuation and more.
Exporting commercial goods
National policies, processes, procedures, regulations and legislation.
Customs Tariff 2025
The latest tariff classification numbers for declaring imported and exported goods.
Anti-dumping and countervailing
Measures for Canadian producers facing unfair foreign competition in the Canadian marketplace.
Facilitating trade
Programs and services to encourage trade in commercial goods and to facilitate compliance with trade rules.
Protecting the Canadian border
Arrests, detentions, alternatives to detention and removals
How we deal with individuals who are not allowed to be in Canada.
Report suspicious border activity
Use our online form or our toll-free phone line to help stop illegal border activities.
Detection tools
Technology and detector dogs help us detect and prevent contraband from entering Canada.
Our fight against human trafficking
The CBSA identifies instances of cross-border trafficking and helps potential victims.
Other border services and information
Importing goods for personal use
Prohibited and restricted weapons, cannabis, animals and food, vehicles, boats, duties and more.
Operating a duty-free shop
Licensing and regulatory requirements for shop operators.
Contact us
What we are doing
Publications and forms
Minister

Minister of Public Safety
Associate Minister

Minister of Official Languages and Associate Minister of Public Safety
Management

President of the Canada Border Services Agency
Management

Executive Vice-President of the Canada Border Services Agency
Corporate information
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