Re: Belts?

Posted by Jim Becker on January 03, 2009 at 16:21:29 from (71.252.139.51):

In Reply to: Belts? posted by kopeck on January 02, 2009 at 21:13:24:

Hugh MacKay said: (quoted from post at 13:44:21 01/03/09)US and Canadain postal service are good but they have weight limits, then it gets farmed out to a Courier. I've also heard about the advice Jim Becker speaks of in his post. There are surprises with that as well.[/quote:272d2410ec]There are a lot of ins and outs to importing material. The page I pointed at just covers a few simple traps that can be avoided. They are pretty similar to what JimB2 commented on. [quote:272d2410ec="Hugh MacKay"](quoted from post at 13:44:21 01/03/09)Well, yes once but there was no invoice involved. A chap in Detroit gave me about 100 pallets . . . "You want money, I don't intend on giving you any money, therefor I'm going to the back of the truck, open the door and roll the pallets out . . .

This reminds me of a story. Many years ago, my father built a cabin way north of Toronto. At the time, you were allowed to bring in one load of household goods without duty, I think it was a "homesteading" exemption. I have forgotten the details. Anyway, we had tall sides on a pickup with all the stuff packed in and a fishing boat over the top. As it happened, you could see nearly everything on the truck by looking over the tail gate or past the front of the tall sides. In advance, dad had completed whatever form was required to bring the load in. Since it was all old stuff from a house, there was no paperwork on individual items.

We got to Port Erie and had the misfortune of drawing a customs agent that was a known &^&*$%. He took one glance at the truck and started into this big tirade about how he couldn't see what was on the truck. After about so long, dad looked at me and said "OK Jim, I'll hand the stuff out to you." I started looking around, obviously sizing up the adjacent parking spaces for where I was going to place everything. As soon as the agent realized we were about to unload the whole truck, he stopped us, gave us a lecture on not having anything that didn't qualify for the exemption, and sent us on.

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