How much will I pay on duties?

[Goldenwind]

To bring a Cobalt Flux ($300+tax, 45lbs) over the boarder into Canada?

[devonin]

Re: How much will I pay on duties?

How long were you in the US? If you were in the US for more than 48 hours, you can bring purchased goods worth $400CAD back into Canada without paying any additional duty at all. If you were in the US for over a week, it's $750 CAD.

If you just popped across the border, bought it and came back, the duty you haveto pay is equal to paying the GST on the purchase as per the province you enter back into Canada from. If you -were- gone for over 48 hours -and- have more than 400 Canadian worth of stuff, you get a 7% tax rate no matter where you came back, because of Most Favoured Nation status with the US.

[Goldenwind]

Re: How much will I pay on duties?

Thanks ^^
That solves that problem...

Next, how do I do this? I could have it shipped to Buffalo, but then I'd have no place to store it until we get there to pick it up.

Is there a store in NY state that we can order it from, and they'll hold it for us?
Or any other ideas?

[devonin]

Re: How much will I pay on duties?

Hmm...where in Ontario do you live? (I assume you're talking about Ontario given the Buffalo crossing and and New York References)

Up here at Sault Ste Marie, there's a business, I actually think they're a furniture store, that as a service for some small fee, will let Canadians use them as a convenient American shipping address, so we can just pop across the bridge and pick things up.

I can't believe a city the size of Buffalo wouldn't have something similar somewhere.