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I keep hearing how this is a win for Canadian online consumers. But I really don't get what has really changed.
So in the past, you began to get taxed at $20, now it's $40.
Before you'd pay duties on anything over $20, now it's $150
BUUUUT:
1) you must import using anything but Canadapost. So that means no USPS on the other side of the border, which also means entering the world of Purolator, Fedex and the wonderful UPS brokerage fees, right?
2) Duties are only applicable if there is not a trade agreement in place where they may be waived. So, in the past under NAFTA, for example, buying a guitar made in the US or Mexico was not subject to duties (taxes of course), but now what? I hope that's still the case. And with all the new agreements (Pacific + Europe) Canada is signing onto, I imagine that duties will become far less of a factor going forward for many products from all over the world.
So the way I see it, when one ignores the duty part, we now have raised when we get start to get taxed from $20 to a measly $40.
Am I seeing this right?
So in the past, you began to get taxed at $20, now it's $40.
Before you'd pay duties on anything over $20, now it's $150
BUUUUT:
1) you must import using anything but Canadapost. So that means no USPS on the other side of the border, which also means entering the world of Purolator, Fedex and the wonderful UPS brokerage fees, right?
2) Duties are only applicable if there is not a trade agreement in place where they may be waived. So, in the past under NAFTA, for example, buying a guitar made in the US or Mexico was not subject to duties (taxes of course), but now what? I hope that's still the case. And with all the new agreements (Pacific + Europe) Canada is signing onto, I imagine that duties will become far less of a factor going forward for many products from all over the world.
So the way I see it, when one ignores the duty part, we now have raised when we get start to get taxed from $20 to a measly $40.
Am I seeing this right?