Actually it is UPS that tacks on the brokerage fee to any order coming into Canada.. I don't know what UPS US charges to get anything across the border but UPS Canada, takes the screwem' at the border approch and tacks on a $25 to $35 brockage fee. You then get to pay the goverment there 7%, but that is not part of the fee..
The only way to ship to Canada from the US is (say it with me know) FEDEX, it actually arrives in one piece and I have never been charged a brokerage fee.
And yes the CRTC requires 35% canadian content for Radio stations to retain their lic... and yes most Canadians think it's stupid too... but like anything goverment, you stand a better chance to being abducted by aliens then getting rid to the useless tits.
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Actually it is UPS that tacks on the brokerage fee to any order coming into Canada.. I don't know what UPS US charges to get anything across the border but UPS Canada, takes the screwem' at the border approch and tacks on a $25 to $35 brockage fee. You then get to pay the goverment there 7%, but that is not part of the fee..
The only way to ship to Canada from the US is (say it with me know) FEDEX, it actually arrives in one piece and I have never been charged a brokerage fee.
And yes the CRTC requires 35% canadian content for Radio stations to retain their lic... and yes most Canadians think it's stupid too... but like anything goverment, you stand a better chance to being abducted by aliens then getting rid to the useless tits.