Shipping Parts to Canada-best way?

[Livolsi, Stephane]

Not entirely correct.  There are duties and taxes payable, but UPS does
charge additional customs clearing fees and they do absolutely nothing
for it, and the fees are not low.
USPS on the other hand, will ship directly from the US to my door in
Canada with no extra fees.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: tom winter [mailto:tom at freeskier.com] 
> Sent: May 13, 2004 9:31 AM
> To: Archibald, Jon; quattro at audifans.com
> Subject: Re: Shipping Parts to Canada-best way?
> 
> 
> on 5/13/04 9:00 AM, Archibald, Jon at Jarchibald at whpacific.com wrote:
> 
> > I'm located in Portland, Oregon, and I have agreed to sell a set of 
> > BBS wheels to a chap in eastern Canada. Unfortunately, the boxes I 
> > want to ship the wheels in exceed the size limit for USPS 
> > international parcels. UPS will gladly do it, but I understand they 
> > charge the receiving party all kinds of bogus fees, which I 
> would like 
> > to avoid. Whats the best way?
> Jon - I think the fees come into play in regards to customs 
> taxing the value of the goods. So you have to list to value 
> of the goods as 0 and not insure them to avoid customs 
> duties. This may be hard to do, given the size of what you're 
> shipping.
> 
> Good Luck,
> 
> Tom
> 
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>