Duty free allowance and cheap Chinese shipping.

[femmefan1946]

The Globe and Mail today has a story on both the Chinese use of the UPU parcel service loophole and duty free allowances.

https://beta.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/canada-post-phasing-out-controversial-shipping-d...

The MP to write to if you want the duty-free limit raised is

Mark Eyking MP

980 Valour Building
House of Commons
Ottawa, Ontario
K1A 0A6

613.995.6459

mark.eyking@parl.gc.ca

As mentioned before, you don't need to put a stamp on the envelope, just mark it OHMS.

[a52split]

" will increase until 2021. At that point, the rate on untracked packets will have increased by up to 100 per cent"

What a joke!

It just means that a China seller that used to pay 40¢ to ship something to a CDN buyer will have to pay 80¢.

[ypdc_dennis]

Small Parcels China to Canada (untracked, max 2kg)

Base rate 5CNY for 50g then 0.09CNY per additional gram

Canada Post starts from a base of 250g and jumps in 250g or 500g increments for Small Packet. Even if the prices were similar, the Chinese seller has the advantage of not overpaying for package weight.

2017 Canada Post vs China Post

Based on current exchange rate of 1CNY = 0.19CAD

050g ... 12.12 vs 0.95

250g ,,, 12.12 vs 4.37

500g ... 23.29 vs 8.64

750g ... 43.84 vs 12.92

1.0kg ... 43.84 vs 17.19

CP Small Packet air counter rates shown (if using Shippo or PayPal would be about 20% cheaper)

https://www.travelchinaguide.com/essential/postal-service/rate.htm

https://www.canadapost.ca/cpotools/apps/far/business/findARate?execution=e2s2

[reallynicestamps]

I think that's a poor comparison.

Canadian eBayers sell very little to China, with the exception of antiques and collectibles.

Our prices for goods are too high. The shipping cost for the things they do want are irrelevant, just part of the cost of that 18th century jade bowl.

The comparison should be Vancouver to StJohns  compared to China to Canada* because that  is where we are competing.

*Or Canada to USA/China to USA since that is the larger market.