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09-22-2016, 06:39 PM

irv

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Quote:

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)

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

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