We live in an interconnected world. As an American, I’d like to know some ways that I could purchase goods, in solidarity with our brothers and sisters in Canada and Mexico, and still avoid the tariffs.
We live in an interconnected world. As an American, I’d like to know some ways that I could purchase goods, in solidarity with our brothers and sisters in Canada and Mexico, and still avoid the tariffs.
Traveling out of the USA.
Yea, come take a vacation up here. No tariff on that at all.
Just got back from beautiful Canada 2 weeks ago! I was delighted to spend time with my wonderful brothers and sisters we met along the way in Canada.
What I’m really interested to know is if at border crossings, individual will or will not have to pay duties on purchases in Canada. Previously it was only on liquor or cigarettes over a certain amount. Now will I have to declare I bought a pair of shoes in Canada from Softmoc, a tank of gas from Canadian Tire, or a bottle of maple syrup from Quebec paying addition taxes on all of these to bring them back to the states? Do you know how hard it is to find peameal bacon in the USA?
If you spent 48 hours or more abroad then you can claim an $800 exemption from duties. This is the case for both Canada and the US (except the dollars is the respective currency). USA gets a fixed $200 exemption for every crossing if the other one doesn’t apply, Canada requires a 24 hour minimum stay for any exemptions, but in practicality if you tell CBSA you have around $200 of stuff that isn’t alcohol, most (especially at road/rail borders) will just wave you through without needing to fill out duty forms and pay.
The personal exemption should still exist, but I didn’t actually look that up.
As a matter of fact, the day after the election, I decided that I would drive from my northern midwest state to Washington via Canada. Next year, I’m planning on a maritimes road trip.
You’ll have to pay a 25% tax on yourself when you return, though.
(/s, until someone figures out how to actually do that)
Border officers will measure the weight of every travelers, in and out of every countries. Then, after estimating how much per kilogram they estimate themselves, travelers will have to pay tariffs on the weight difference.
Excessively low estimates could expose travelers to “harvesting” by some rich Nazi who would buy them out (literally !).
/sarcasm (i certainly hope this remains sarcasm forever.)
My understanding is that some province is charging double on US commercial trucks that cross the border. Nova Scotia?
Not a border crossing but Nova Scotia’s toll road, the Cobequid Pass is doubling rates specifically for US commercial vehicles.
I don;t believe NS shares a border with the US unless perhaps a fairy but I have no idea if there are any US to NS ferries.
It doesn’t. Might have been New Brunswick. Or I just made it up somehow. I can’t remember where I saw it.
They charge something like $11 USD to cross border bridges (at least in Detroit and Sarnia).
The exchange rate is likely to be prohibitively stupid once all this gets rolling.