Buying used from Canada


Hi, if you are based in USA and you buy used hifi from Canada do you get taxed on it when it arrives?  Talking about $2000ish.  Or if you use fed-ex will it come straight through?  Thanks for your time

spoutmouzert

Probably best to keep things simple and buy from where you are confident of the law, taxes, etc. This may require a change in habits, which is never comfortable.  

 

Change can be difficult, but with some forethought, some degree of inconvenience/ pain may be avoided.  
 

Hang in there.  

@goldenways 

The best source for this info is from a fair and balanced TV channel called Foxnews.

Oh please...Fox is an easy target, but go ahead, name an actually fair and balanced news source.

@moonwatcher 

Canadian tariffs. 
 

l think you put an extra 0 on the 25% import tax on some American goods.

In England we often chuckle at the misinformation coming out. Mention it often enough and gullible people believe it. A bit like the old adage, if the legend sounds better than the reality, print the legend.

l have never bought gear from the States but l regularly imported vinyl and CDs into the UK. I have made a conscious decision to stop and spend with friendlier countries. Sorry to label everything American and put in the same “basket” but that is now the nature of the beast. With so much confusion this breeds revolution. I do not sell as an option now anything into the US.

Myself and my immediate family have all decided to put to bed planned holidays, and even cruises that arrive down the east coast behind us. The US is now off the table for many of my Canadian extended family and Canadian friends too. It is a mathematical probability that this self imposed quarantine will remain in force until the US self imposed nightmares stop.

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