The US companies struggle with distribution, high taxation at the border along with broker fee's that are applied to them but not the consumers.
For example; if Nordstrom imports clothing from China to America they pay 11% on wholesale to the government. They then ship from their distribution centre our tariff is 18% plus brokerage fee + GST.
A consumer orders from the internet Canada post likely brings it with close to zero fee's aside from GST.
Then you take all the layers of taxation, like Carbon Tax etc. This is the hardest on small business.
Secondly, the Nordstrom and Target thing underestimate how large our country is and beyond weird things, like thousands of Canada Goose jackets, they rarely had replenished inventory and were unable to move product from market to market where it may have sold.
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