The Canadians that visit the site

I think that might make you LA Blue Eh! :) Or maybe 'Out of the Blue' eh.

Rob in Vancouver. I always seemed to have something Canadian eh! in my equipment rack. Dayton Wright (OK, some years ago), Classe, Magnum D, Foundation Research, Rix Rax speaker stands. Same with source material - I have a lot of the vinyl Bruce Cockburn, Joni, Neil, Ian Tyson and Rough Trade issued. And I still search the bins for Stony Plain and True North (Eugene Martynec).

Who's bought equipment stateside and driven it cross border? Think of a 100lb amp, not a MC cartridge. Creative bills of sale aside, are duty and excise payable or is PST/GST all that's due on US made electronics? Any gotchas or tricks of trade you can share?

Rphare eh
If I have it right you just pay pst/gst except if product comes from outside USA. Uhhunh .
Although with the Cad. dollar being what it is, the value of Canadian made audio can't be ignored. Our Uhhunh friends are always commenting on this site about what great value Bryston, Paradigm or Sonic Frontiers are eh! However few of them know if they buy in Canada with converted US dollars then the best deals will be found. On an aside, once when we were 19 yrs old we drove up from Middlebury college in VT. with a back seat full of used audio gear. The Canadian customs guy had one look and pulled out a Consumers Distributers catalogue. He started to calculate the duty and taxes based on what our stuff looked like compared to the pictures in the book.
When we told him we had no money for any of that he let us go back into the US to supposedly leave the stuff at a cousin's. Five miles down the road we cut over to a farmers road and made a bee line straight to montreal. What better did we know eh.
Cheers. Alberta _eh _steve eh