Hello
I just wanted to touch on something quickly as an observation and, possibly, a
warning.
This week I received a package of flat items from emovieposter, as usual.
However, an unusual thing was that I was told the amount owed for the pickup
was more than double what I was expecting. This put me on the path of assuming
there was a clerical error at Canada Post or the Customs office and I was
really not looking forward to trying to iron it out. I was mostly hoping
Bruce's people had mistakenly marked a wrong value on the form. Anyway, as it
turns out, there was nothing wrong. On top of the standard 13% HST (this is a
Canadian sales tax on everything we buy) on the CDN dollar value of the
package, there is now a 25% duty charge. I don't follow the economic genius in
charge in the White House but I am going to also assume that this charge is a
result of the tariff dance that has been ongoing since 47 took over. If I am
wrong and a politically astute Mopoer can explain it to me, I'd love to hear. I
also received a package or records from the US that were valued at around $125
but there was $0 duty on the customs sheet...just the normal tax I am used to.
The warning part of this goes out to and Canuck collectors who may be as
surprised as I or want to avoid these spikes in pulse. The batch of posters
were valued at $422 US which comes to approximately $580 CDN. For a package of
used advertising paper "worth" that, I paid around $252 to retrieve it from the
post office once all those processing fees were tossed in. This will have an
effect on the US economy! All the posters I would notmally be bidding on in the
upcoming Bruce auctions will be missing one extra push to hammer value. I am
not buying stuff that costs me another 38% to pass into Canada. Good news for
the people I am always bidding against! The posters will still sell but
fractions do matter. I'll deal with the smaller sellers for now and keep hoping
we can keep customs and duty at bay. Or maybe it's a good time to call my
collection finished. I'm starting to feel my money can be better spent as
shipping costs and now customs/duty are forcing me to buy Canadian, find tax
cheat sellers or simply quit and enjoy what I have built.
All the best,
M
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