[LargeFormat] Buying and selling on ebay

Joseph O'Neil largeformat@f32.net
Tue Jul 23 11:00:28 2002


>More to the point: I had a Canadian buyer this week who asked me to mark the
>customs form: "Photographic gear manufactured in USA."  He said that
>Canadians do not have to pay customs duty on such gear.  Is this true?  Is
>it true for any other nations?

         In Canada, under NAFTA, anything made in the USA is duty free.  So 
yes.  I had the same request once when I bought a commercail Kodak Ektar a 
few years back.
         We still get nailed with local sales taxes (up to 15%), but at 
least no duty.
joe



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