Buying used from Canada

There is no national sales tax. Any sales tax would be at the state level. Each state has or does not have its own sales tax. Each state will have various methods to capture their sales tax from any consumer transaction. It’s the sellers responsibility to collect the tax. There are no sales tax paid at customs. Forgetting the current chaotic business environment,  Customs employees have a tuff job figuring out what the tariff fee will be or not be on small transactions. Because of the volumes of incoming product and type, especially small packages coming in every day and every hour, they need to make quick decisions on the spot looking at docs while at the same time look out for illegal stuff.

It’s unreasonable to expect some human to know all the tariff codes and its derivatives to make the correct call each time.  You can only ask so much from a person.

Probably best to keep things simple and buy from where you are confident of the law, taxes, etc. This may require a change in habits, which is never comfortable.  

Change can be difficult, but with some forethought, some degree of inconvenience/ pain may be avoided.  
 

Hang in there.  

@goldenways 

The best source for this info is from a fair and balanced TV channel called Foxnews.

Oh please...Fox is an easy target, but go ahead, name an actually fair and balanced news source.

Associated Press, Reuters are two,

@moonwatcher 

Canadian tariffs. 
 

l think you put an extra 0 on the 25% import tax on some American goods.

In England we often chuckle at the misinformation coming out. Mention it often enough and gullible people believe it. A bit like the old adage, if the legend sounds better than the reality, print the legend.

l have never bought gear from the States but l regularly imported vinyl and CDs into the UK. I have made a conscious decision to stop and spend with friendlier countries. Sorry to label everything American and put in the same “basket” but that is now the nature of the beast. With so much confusion this breeds revolution. I do not sell as an option now anything into the US.

Myself and my immediate family have all decided to put to bed planned holidays, and even cruises that arrive down the east coast behind us. The US is now off the table for many of my Canadian extended family and Canadian friends too. It is a mathematical probability that this self imposed quarantine will remain in force until the US self imposed nightmares stop.