We're supposed to pay the duty/tariff when sending to the US? | Selling

aramatic · 2025-09-17T03:49:38.723000Z

According to Canada Post "Under U.S. regulations, every parcel entering the country by mail must have duties prepaid". Apparently this doesn't apply to delivery services, as I've sent several parcels to the US by UPS since 29 August without paying any duty. Nor have any of these parcels been charged extra on receipt in the US. I find paying duties/tariffs in advance puzzling. Since they're only calculated at the time of mailing we can't know what they'll be and so can't charge them to the buyer. The present arrangement for postal services seems to conform to Trump's mistaken notion that tariffs are paid on exports rather than imports. Or am I missing something?

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