Buying from USA

[emptyingtheshoebox]

Bought a item for 70 US duties and taxes 29.52 never again buying US items. What a joke BS

[marnotom!]

Were you charged at Checkout or at delivery? What shipping company handled the item you purchased?

[femmefan1946]

With the new CUSMA/nafta* we have a duty free allowance of $150Cdn and a tax free allowance of $40Cdn.

You would be paying tax on a $70U$/$87.50Cdn item, but that would be from $4.38 to $13.12.

If the shipment was delivered by Canada Post there would also be a service charge of $9.95, but private couriers could charge much much more.

Given those numbers, your $29.50 sounds about right.

Because our currencies have the same name, it is not unusual for Canadians to "see" the lower price instead of converting everything to the same currency.

*This only applies to imports from the USA, otherwise the duty free allowance remains at the same $20 it has been since the 1980s. But that's a job for the federal government.

We also have Free Trade agreements with over 150 nations, with the Trans-Pacific and the EU ones being most important.

[snoopwiz]

Could it have been a courier's brokerage charge?

[femmefan1946]

It does seem likely.  Canada Post's $9.95 is the lowest service charge I've heard of.