Shipping a carb to Canada?

It should not be too difficult. Using the post office seems to work the best for those from whom I buy.

Colin

ALEX M. wrote:

I've shipped motorcycle parts to Canada thru the regular mail with no problems. Had minor time delays "getting" stuff from up there using UPS.

Mike

Should mention too...

Indicate on the box near the shipping lable....something like "scrap parts" or "loose car parts"... Something like that to keep their "imposed" over the boarder tax's down. Just something to indicate that it's not good, complete parts. Add a coupla things loosely to let them rattle around to indicate a "not complete part"! Other wise, they'll add dollars as they see fit!

Mike

Mike - DO NOT put anything on the box that is not true. If Canada Customs opens the box and see what appears to be a good working part, the part will either get seized or assessed for higher value and corresponding taxes. It could be sent back and your name will be schitt.

DO mark the package "used auto parts" and "parts origin USA" or similar. No import duties are payable if the parts originate in the USA or Canada under NAFTA. Use a reasonable used value for the parts.

Do not under any circumstance use UPS. They have the paperwork handled by their own captive brokerage house and will charge a minimum of $50 for doing unnecessary paperwork. Courier I would suggest FedEx or DHL/Airborne. Preferred would be USPS air priority express. The most Canada Post will assess on this end is any GST payable and a $5.00 handling fee. The GST would have to be paid in any event. All provinces have Provincial Sales Tax except Alberta so that will have to be paid too.

Brooksie

Thanks for the help.

Alex

under NO CIRCUMSTANCES ship to Canada via UPS!!! Within US, UPS may be fine, within Canada, same again, but they are the WORST and terribly expensive crossing the border from US to Canada. A month or more, damaged goods, "address not found", lost, lost lost etc etc all these have happened to me. I have *never* had a fast & trouble-free experience with UPS in over

40 tries, until I banned them forever. From shipping in parts for the Corvairs, the Studes, the Kaisers, the Peugeots, Ebay stuff etc, I have found USPS/Canada Post to be much faster, safer, cheaper than almost any other method. I pick the parcels up at my local postal outlet, pay the GST & $5 handling fee, and walk out. One-stop and dead simple. Using a non-postal service method is somewhat more or a problem cross border. Actually, postal service from France/Britain., and especially New Zealand beats every other method. For a while, I was ordering a lot of (biggish) parts for a British Ford from New Zealand for someone restoring a 1957 Consul Estate.

YMMV, of course

Jim Bartley on PEI

15 for dinner on Sunday, all Studebaker folk, and 5 Studes: 55 Commander, 61, 63, and 66 Lark types, and a 60 Hawk.

When you fill out the customs form, mark them as antique auto parts (if they are)

Jim

'nither vote for the good old post office. and another vote for "never ever EVER use UPS!!"

just last week they tried to charge me $21 "brokerage fees" on a replacement (read warranty) hour meter from Faria in the US. this, after I paid $55 to have the first one shipped "fast and brokerage free!" Poor UPS guy finally realized I was serious about saying "no thank you!" when he asked me to accept the package.

They waived the fees BTW (just this once!), but not until they tried one more time. Rob

This is all the right advice...Don't cut corners or ever lie about what you sent...Can't beat using Canada Post and the truth in what's in the package see...We have that new scanner system(rip it open by hand) at all our borders now plus Border guards carry guns...Next year I think we get bullets for them...

Oh yes Jim I had no invite anywhere for dinner Sunday ;-( ...I guess you had to own a Stude to get one there...Glad you all had a nice time...

Lansing alone in Sydney with KFC

PS...Cause Wife went to see her family in Boston, MA...Last Friday evening she got in a car mash-up with a power pole...It was with her Aunt driving...Seatbelts and air bags saved them...But Very shookup...Windows fogged up as A/C had been on...

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