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Originally Posted by MikeKam
Thank you!
Yeah the $28 you paid makes sense. The brokerage fee for Canada Post is $10 + sales tax (13% of $125 is about $16.25)
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There were a bunch of stories about this not that long ago but this is the only one I could find.
In a nutshell, paying duty on such a miniscule amount of money is to deter cross border shopping.
They, the Gov't, spend more running/managing it than they take in!
http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/duty...rica-1.3467632