Shipping Parts to Canada-best way?

George Harris harchris at smokesignal.net
Thu May 13 21:58:36 EDT 2004


Regardless of the declared value, they charge a "broker's" fee. They 
also hold it up at the border until they find out if the receiver has a 
broker. Does the buyer have a friend just across the border he can visit 
and pick up the parts from?

tom winter wrote:
> 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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