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Originally Posted by jolinar of malkshor
Most goods actually only have around a 6-8% duty rate as most countries fall under the Most Favoured Nation tariff clasification. But I could understand that all the additional fees, gst and transport costs would bring that up quite a bit. But I don't think it is fair to say Canada has one of the highest duty rates when that is not the case.
ADD: If anyone is interested to see what the duty rate is for any good to be imported into Canada go to this link http://cbsa.gc.ca/trade-commerce/tar...if/menu-e.html click on the most recent 2007 customs tariffs. |
Well the business I was looking at was online clothing. According to your site it has 17.5-20% duty, plus gst/pst, plus a handling fee. I know a lot of other people in other parts of the world who run similar sites and make a killing. I can guarantee you, with the exception of Scandinavia they do not pay anything close to that.
If you look at our act, we do probably have a 6-8% duty rate, but the kind of items w/ low duty are parts for manufacturing and such. While most final consumer goods (the kind a retailer or consumer would want) have considerably higher duty rates. Clothing for example, which is mostly around 20%. There are obviously policy reasons here. The government is trying to stop us from buying American goods.