[Towertalk] (COSTS in Canada!!)

[Mike & Coreen Smith]

This is *EXACTLY* what I am talking about. As nice of a neigbour you guys
are south of the border, you
REALLY have no idea (for the most part, and I am talking in general terms
here) what kind of taxes, etc. we end up
paying up here in Canada.
We have a beautiful country but things are DARN expensive here!

It should say on the border:

Welcome to Canada, the land of tax !

HI!!

Mike VE9AA

Michael, Coreen & Corey Smith
(VE9AA,  VE9AAA & Little-VE9 to be)
271 Smith Rd
Waterville, NB
E2V 3V6
Canada
http://ve9aa.tripod.com/
http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/Vines/2174/

----- Original Message -----
From: "Pete Smith" <n4zr@contesting.com>
To: "Mike & Coreen Smith" <ve9aa@nbnet.nb.ca>
Sent: Saturday, May 04, 2002 5:34 PM
Subject: Re: [Towertalk] Antenna Analyzer (COSTS in Canada!!)


> At 04:20 PM 5/4/02 -0300, you wrote:
> >Chris is right!
> >
> >You guys south of the border cannot realize what we VE's end up paying
for
> >US stuff.
> >Normally I can count on paying just about double for stuff from the USA
(and
> >elsewhere).
> >By the time I pay for the item, multiply that by current exchange (1.55
or
> >whatever), pay multiple
> >taxes, duties, brokerage fees, courier fees, Federal taxes etc. on it, it
> >usually is just about double.
>
> This perplexes me a little.  I get some garden equipment from Lee Valley
> Supply, which is an Ottawa company.  They fill orders there, then truck
> them to a border town in New York, where they are picked up by FedEx.  If
> there was really so much overhead on the border, it seems likely that
their
> prices would be out of line, but they are very competitive, even though a
> lot of the stuff they sell comes from the States.
>
> Whatever happened to NAFTA -- surely no duties any more.  Do you have to
> pay a national VAT on the value of imports?  What would happen if you
drove
> to New Hampshire, bought a radio from HRO, and took it back across the
> border yourself?  I assume you'd still have the taxes, but all those
> service fees ought to go away...
>
> For that matter, what the world needs is a network of hams in US-Canada
> border cities that would serve as drop off points for equipment, to be
> picked up by the Canadian purchaser just across the border.
>
>
> 73, Pete N4ZR
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