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Originally Posted by Haurock

I just wanted to add, that in addition to the fees mentioned above, there are also the brokerage fees. When I shipped my MCD201 to a person who bought it the states, the administrative steps and additional costs just to confirm the the CD player met US specs was rather annoying.

Buying south of the Border does have its advantages, but, sometimes it does create a fair amount of difficulties. Often any 'deal' you can get is wiped out by the additional costs.

I was speaking to a dealer in Canada about some rather excellent prices on PMC and Sonus Faber probucts, and he warned me that any European products have an additional 10% Importation tax in addition to Provincial sales tax and our Federal tax.... so, to import into Ontario, would cost me an additional 23% before shipping or brokerage fees..etc. so you have to really know what you're after...

The GST, PST, HST etc. you guys have up there are an alphabet soup of confusion! We've got a bunch down here too, like sales taxes where the state charges a percent (something like 5% usually, in the states that charge it), and counties can then add their add-on to that (sorry for the two "adds" in the sentence, but even writing about it has me speaking bureaucratese!).