US shipping to Canada/Brokerage fees

i tried to explain this from rock auto a few months back ... listening was an issue. Hst was paid for at time of checkout so no extra fees.

Summit racing and fed ex have been doing it this way for at least 2 years.... mind you within the last year they started to collect the hst on their end which helped out alot. Before you paid the hst at your door if using fed ex. UPS charges a brokerage fee for declaring the total of the package at customs and then collected the tax on top of their brokerage fee.

Postal has always charged the hst over a certain amount if shipped from a business. Most of the time the small packages are ignored, but on occasion some tax nazi gets a hold of the small items.

Either way these big companies are starting to realize that the canadians are buying stuff from them but second guess the items when shipping comes in to play. Hopefully more realize the lost revenue .... Then again we also forget to support our own country.