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Shipping between Canada and the States

Hi,

I'm wondering if there are any issues related to duties or taxes etc if shipping goods between the States and Canada. Is special paper work needed? any import duties assesed on goods coming into the states?

Thanks,

Phil
phil0618
celtic66
1,699 posts
 
My understanding and experience is that USPS is best as UPS always uses a broker and charges often around $50 per transaction. I've paid this before with speakers coming from Canada.
gunbei
2,327 posts
 
Hey Phil, going from Canada to the US is much easier than from the US to Canada. There are import duties imposed by Canada wihch can hike the price of a sale. I plan on sending my Blue Circle gear to Canada for some mods, but need to get instructions from Gilbert Yeung on what to fill out and how best to send everything. Check out these threads:

http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?aamps&1047541447&read&keyw&zzcanada

http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?ymisc&1040425296&read&keyw&zzcanada

http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?aamps&1034360019&read&keyw&zzcanada

http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?aamps&1023971183&read&keyw&zzcanada

Good luck.
sugarbrie
3,854 posts
 
There should be no import duties and any US manufactured goods going to Canada, and the same from Canada to the US.
Now if you are sending other foreign made gear, there possibly could be a duty. It will depend on the trade deal between the country of manufacture and the destination country.

There will very likely be a broker fee both ways if you ship UPS or Fedex.

Gunbei.....Gilbert or Angela will give you the name of the broker who handles Blue Circle exports to put on your shipping documents. It helps speed things up for the goods to be forwarded through the broker Blue Circle uses.
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