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customs fees....whats the REAL story????
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<blockquote data-quote="UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)" data-source="post: 315055" data-attributes="member: 12570"><p>My center is about 1/2 hour south of the Canadian border and our center services a lot of the brokerage houses which are set up along the border. Yes, UPS did buy a brokerage company, Transborder, which has brokerage houses all along the Canadian border. The former Transborder bldg in Champlain, NY, is now called UPS SCS, which stands for Supply Chain Solutions. These brokerage houses are supposed to process shipments both going to and from the States (Etates Unis) so that they will arrive in a timely manner. As far as the brokerage and/or customs fees, I have no idea how they are calculated but I do know that they are separate fees so, yes, shipments can be processed without using the brokerage houses but they do tend to take longer as these brokerage firms have relationships with Customs (Douanes) which gives them priority in processing their shipments. This is why our local Mail Boxes Etc has quite a few Canadian customers because this provides them with a US address for their shipments. Now, you may be saying, that's great, but how do they get the stuff across the border? Well, they simply unpack everything, destroy all receipts/paperwork, stuff the trunks of their cars and use some of the lesser-travelled border crossings or even some of the unmanned crossings which operate on the honor system of self-reporting to the nearest manned crossing. When they shop at our mall, they take everything out of the packaging or put on the new clothes/shoes, and head for home. NAFTA encouraged free trade but did not do away with duty.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="UpstateNYUPSer(Ret), post: 315055, member: 12570"] My center is about 1/2 hour south of the Canadian border and our center services a lot of the brokerage houses which are set up along the border. Yes, UPS did buy a brokerage company, Transborder, which has brokerage houses all along the Canadian border. The former Transborder bldg in Champlain, NY, is now called UPS SCS, which stands for Supply Chain Solutions. These brokerage houses are supposed to process shipments both going to and from the States (Etates Unis) so that they will arrive in a timely manner. As far as the brokerage and/or customs fees, I have no idea how they are calculated but I do know that they are separate fees so, yes, shipments can be processed without using the brokerage houses but they do tend to take longer as these brokerage firms have relationships with Customs (Douanes) which gives them priority in processing their shipments. This is why our local Mail Boxes Etc has quite a few Canadian customers because this provides them with a US address for their shipments. Now, you may be saying, that's great, but how do they get the stuff across the border? Well, they simply unpack everything, destroy all receipts/paperwork, stuff the trunks of their cars and use some of the lesser-travelled border crossings or even some of the unmanned crossings which operate on the honor system of self-reporting to the nearest manned crossing. When they shop at our mall, they take everything out of the packaging or put on the new clothes/shoes, and head for home. NAFTA encouraged free trade but did not do away with duty. [/QUOTE]
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