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Originally Posted by SensualPoet
I wasn't singling you out. The point is, any duty and tariffs paid as a single importer are the same as paid buying it across the street. There's nothing "extra" with the exception of handing and shipping fees. Also, in practice, if it's brought in from the US and made in China, the tariff applies as if it came from the US. Practically everything is made in China or its neighbours and tariffs for electronic goods are zero. Some folks worry about getting hit with "high duty and taxes"; they do not ... they get hit with the identical taxes you pay locally.
Did you find the two article about the Kobo, which is the point of this thread, interesting or helpful?
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Sorry but your information is incorrect. The taxes you pay on import are what you pay if you bought it at your local store, yes. Duties are extra over and above taxes and depend on the item and where it's made. Brokerage is something else altogether.
Tariffs apply depending on where the item is made NOT where it comes from as you've stated. I've been importing and exporting for my own business for the last 10 years. I've done it myself for the last 8. Prior to that I paid someone to do the paperwork. Prior to that, I did it as part of my job for a manufacturing company. I buy goods from US companies that are made in China, Indonesia and the Phillippines. I pick them up in the US and when I import them into Canada I am charged duty based on the country the goods are made in. More commonly referred to as country of origin.
Yes the point of the thread is the Kobo reader but you're giving out very wrong information when it comes to importing it and it needed to be corrected. I know of what I speak. I've been doing it for a long time, almost 20 years in all. Sorry for the intrusion.