2024 CBSA Year in review: Accomplishments by the numbers
From: Canada Border Services Agency
The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) provides services at 1,200 points across Canada and at 40 international locations.
This page outlines CBSA national statistics for the period between and .
Travellers
- 80,575,768 travellers:
- Air: 31,779,909
- Highway: 45,115,500
- including 4,913,121 truck drivers
- Marine: 3,343,911
- Rail: 336,247
- 29,647,859 travellers used primary inspection kiosks
- 3,505,474 travellers used Advance Declaration
- 83 additional primary inspection kiosks across Canada
- 1.9 million NEXUS members
Commercial goods
- 23 million releasesFootnote 1 of goods into the commerce of Canada following a decision by a Border Services Officer
- 110.5 million courier shipments (only up to )
- $210.8 billion Trusted Trader value for duty importedFootnote 2
- $32.5 billion total duties and taxes assessed (customs duties, Special Import Measures Act [SIMA] duties, surtaxes, GST and excise taxes)(only up to September 30, 2024)
- Commercial by the numbers:
- Highway: 4,481,521 trucks
- Air: 3,024,325 shipments
- Marine: 1,625,786 containers
- Rail: 1,591,801 cars
Food, plant and animal
2,495 Agriculture and Agri-Food Administrative Monetary Penalties (AAAMP) issued for food, plant and animal import violations totaling $2,136,200 in penalties.
Enforcement
40,546 seizuresFootnote 3, including:
- 604 seizures for a total of 853 firearms seized
- 7,132 seizures for a total of 15,637 weapons seized
- 24,426 illegal drugs seizures
- Cocaine (including coca leaves, coca paste, cocaine and cocaine crack): 3,955 kilograms
- Heroin: 37 kilograms
- Fentanyl: 4.9 kilograms
- Other opioids (including opium, methadone, morphine and morphine base): 237 kilograms
- Other drugs, narcotics and chemicals: 21,457 kilograms
- 14,842 cannabis seizures totaling 15,000 kilograms
- 1,656 tobacco seizures totaling 547,392 kilograms
- 58 child pornography seizures
Firearms (details)
- Total firearms seized: 853
- Total firearms seizures: 604
| Firearm type | Quantity |
|---|---|
| Miscellaneous (for example, replica firearms, firearms parts, large capacity magazines, silencers, etc.) | 6,186 |
| Handgun | 505 |
| Semiauto pistol | 93 |
| Revolver | 91 |
| Rifle | 54 |
| Full auto carbine | 36 |
| Shotgun | 34 |
| Other (including full auto pistol, full auto rifle and semiauto carbine) | 21 |
| Semiauto rifle | 16 |
| Antique firearm | 1 |
Weapons (details)
- Total weapons seized: 15,637
- Total weapon seizures: 7,132
| Prohibited weapons type | Quantity |
|---|---|
| Brass Knuckle | 4,513 |
| Automatic opening knife | 3,941 |
| Centrifugal opening knife | 3,444 |
| Stun Gun | 970 |
| Kiyoga/Steel Cobra baton | 896 |
| Tear gas/pepper spray | 530 |
| Innocuous device with knife | 518 |
| Bladed Ring | 244 |
| Taser | 153 |
| Push dagger | 148 |
| Gravity opening knife | 121 |
| Crossbow (one handed use) | 69 |
| Shuriken | 43 |
| Nunchaku | 30 |
| Other (including Constant Companion knife, Kusari/Manrikigusari) | 12 |
| Morning Star | 3 |
| Blow gun | 3 |
Contact us
For more information or to schedule an interview with a CBSA representative, please contact:
Media Relations
Canada Border Services Agency
Email: media@cbsa-asfc.gc.ca
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