Canada- duty tax on parts from U.S.?

ChrisSlicks

Yep. The most important thing is that the seller doing the shipping attaches a complete manifest of parts listing the countries of manufacture and that it exactly matches the contents. The source of materials doesn't matter, as long as the final product is built in the US it will be duty free.

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6MT

You couldn't be more wrong. It DOES matter where the product is manufactured. It doesn't matter if it's "assembled" in the USA. If it's manufactured outside North America, it DOES NOT qualify under NAFTA as duty-free.

My wheel example above should have told you that!

There are of course many instances where the country of origin is not "specified". But do you really want Canada Customs to seize your shipment? My wheels were seized; although mine was for under value issues and not country of origin issues. And Canada Customs is really getting "picky" because the value of the Canadian dollar has increased close to par. Their reasoning as to why they are looking very closely at ALL shipments is beacuse of the big increase of products coming from the USA.

You can really do what you want, but the penalty for making false disclosures or no disclosure is $1000 fine AND the forfiture of the shipment. IE: means you lose everything.

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Andrew

2009 370Z Sport/Touring 6MT sold
2013 Honda Civic Si coupe D/D

ChrisSlicks

I said country of manufacture, not assembly. For it to be considered "manufactured" in a given country more than 50% of the work must be done in that country. So for example if a company has wheels cast overseas and then paints them in the US that isn't going to qualify, but building an exhaust system from foreign tube steel is.

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