Buying used from Canada

Yeah @cleeds get your facts right. Choose your sources wisely. The best source for this info is from a fair and balanced TV channel called Foxnews. You should know this by now.

Spin the wheel and see what number pops up. I ordered pair of Psvane WE101D tubes directly from Psvane just the other day, they state on website any tariff included in price, and the price was nice! Now I may get a big surprise when it reaches US.

Complete nonsense per Canadian tariffs in general, yes, they do protect some of their agricultural products, but then so does US. One of the big factors in the auto industry moving to Canada was lower labor costs, this sort of thing leads to trade deficits. Labor costs in general are the main driver of offshoring, pretending its unfair tariffs is disingenuous at best. Citing a few outliers as to high tariffs doesn't make it universally true. So much inductive reasoning these day vs deductive, get yourself inside the bell curve people.

I live in Canada and buy stuff from the US all the time and have so for decades. According to the last Free trade agreement, that the current US admin is no longer honouring, there was no duty to personally import any US made good into Canada , only sales tax, and the reverse was true as well. The only exception was alcohol, and the high levies for that are provincial , with each province doing it’s own thing.

I bought lots of audio gear from the US, never any duty, only sales tax.

Trump may have  a point in that on an industrial scale we may have duties for US dairy products. The reason for that is because dairy is about 30% cheeper in the US because the US government heavily subsidizes that industry. and the Canadian government much less so these help  duties keep our dairy farms in business. US dairy is cheaper than the UK, Australia, and much of the EU as well . Looking at trade deficits when only accounting for goods no longer makes sense. One needs to look at services as well like Netflix or hydroelectric power which gives a bigger picture of what the economic scene is.

Not audio equipment and not Canada (Malaysia) and not $2000 ($500) but I recently made a purchase that was shipped by UPS. Seller made clear any tariffs were my responsibility; however, I was never charged any additional fees and the package was delivered in just 4 days to my TN USA address. Honestly I half expected receive a bill that requires me to make a direct deposit to the Don’s bank account  

@moonwatcher  - totally false. I found the Canadian government website that lists all tariffs on US goods and sorted both ways on tariff rate. All tariffs are 25%. I also sorted both ways on effective date and all of these tariffs were enacted since March 3rd 2025 which means they are all in responses to little Donny’s trade war. It’s sad that we can’t even have a conversation anymore in which facts are consistently utilized but that’s what happens when an education system is intentionally neglected by one side of the aisle for 30 years. 
 

@jasonbourne71 +as many as I can give without being tariffed - though it appears your comment has now been removed. 

While I’m not happy that @jasonbourne71 comment was removed, I can see the moderator taming this conversation. Things could go south really fast. Best to tap the brakes early.