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Hello, I got tired of trying to find Canadian online Lego sellers that were competitive...I've been purchasing "sale" merchandise from eToys, Walmart, etc. through a service in Canada called Borderfree (www.borderfree.com). They act as a broker for (...) (24 years ago, 30-Dec-00, to lugnet.loc.ca)
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| | DUTY? (was Re: Canadian Online Toy Purchases....)
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Hey I haven't actually looked into this as of the time I'm replying but this sounds really cool! I now have another question, however..... What is the deal with paying "duty" on items and how is it determined? I can't seem to find out much info on (...) (24 years ago, 31-Dec-00, to lugnet.loc.ca)
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| | Re: DUTY? (was Re: Canadian Online Toy Purchases....)
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Duty should not be a problem on LEGO. I've bought from USA and Europe (France). When they come through Borderfree, they act as the broker and classify them properly -- duty free. The only charge is GST/PST as in Canada. If you purchase from someone (...) (24 years ago, 31-Dec-00, to lugnet.loc.ca)
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(...) G'day Tim, I can help here with things in-bound from the USA. Because of NAFTA, most items (including LEGO) can be imported into Canada from the USA with no duty charges (tariffs). The condition is that the item must be "made in the USA". For (...) (24 years ago, 31-Dec-00, to lugnet.loc.ca)
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Following up my own message here. I had posted in the previous message that in Ontario you should only have to pay GST on imported LEGO from the USA. This was based on information given to me directly by Customs by telephone. As it turns out this (...) (24 years ago, 29-Jan-01, to lugnet.loc.ca)
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(...) Kyle, I don't think you will have much luck getting your PST back. CCRA (was Revenue Canada) and the province of Ontario have a service level agreement to collect PST at the border. I just double checked the Customs site and CCRA also has (...) (24 years ago, 30-Jan-01, to lugnet.loc.ca)
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| | Re: DUTY? (was Re: Canadian Online Toy Purchases....)
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(...) And they evidently collect on non-postal imports as well..., I drove that large order in personally. (...) Well given that a BrickBay package that just arrived from Italy was also taxed, I guess I won't be seeing anything come back. Since (...) (24 years ago, 1-Feb-01, to lugnet.loc.ca)
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