How Much Are Canadian Customs on US Made Imports

Does the sender pay the $5fee, because I've never had to pay the brokerage fee.. I just received some cables from the US yesterday.. with a "declared" value of $10, and it arrived at my door. I didn't even have to pick it up at the post office.

I live in British Columbia.

Elf73, sometimes Canada Post lets a package through without fees. This appears to be accidental, but it is much more common with lower-value packages.

Correction. Canada Post do not charge a "brokerage" fee. It's a "handling" fee and yes it is $5.00. Regardless, this is MUCH cheaper than what the UPS and Fedex thugs charge. If you purchase from the US, insist that they ship the item to Canada by USPS. I have noticed over the years that an item with a declared value of under $60.00 will be delivered to your door by Canada Post with no GST/PST or handling fee. My observation anyway.

For completeness, here is the offcial Canada Post information:

Canada Post "Handling fees"

Thus $5 for standard and priority parcel, $8 fee for EMS (Express mail) parcels. There is no charge for items, where no duty, PST or GST is payable, i.e. items below CDN$20 are always free.

By the way, the same is true for Fedex and UPS: There is no "brokerage fee" for items below CDN$20:

UPS fee guide

Oh, and UPS does not call these "brokerage fees" either but instead "Entry Preparation Charges" ;)