I am just kinda curious what the duty is like when someone from the USA buys a Canadian made product like Axioms. When I bought my amp the duty was around 50 dollars yet my sister bought 10lbs of butter and they were going to charge her 300.00 duty , she had to throw it in the garbage.

For an American to import a Made In Canada product (and vice versa) according to the North American Free Trade Agreement the amount of duty paid should be 0.

I assume your amp is Made In China and shipped from the USA. China (country of origin where the product was made) does not fall under NAFTA and would be subject to duty.

That is where my head is at, but I was too lazy to research And yeah the amp is made in China. So with our dollar where it is at should potentially be of benefit to Axiom when targeting a large market like the US of A . What I find confusing is I can order certain products from Amazon.com and they will ship to Canada but other products they wont.

Groceries and liquor are different and the amount of duty free on these goods are based on the length of stay in that visiting country.

I have no idea about Amazon shipping policies.

The thing with my sis was she live just across the Blaine border crossing and they don't like us canucks buying all their cheap dairy so they have a limit on the amount of butter among other things.

I just look at my amazon history and I bought a Oster waffle maker project tubebox II phono preamp as an example but I cant buy a Denon receiver or wood veneer yet I can go to another American website and buy wood veneer. None of it matters now anyway cause the dollar is so low it makes the savings a moot point.

That limit increases the longer you stay.

I stay far away of any of that cheap hormone dairy or poultry (butter, milk, eggs, cheese) in American grocery stores.

When most US states codes implemented the sale of only 1.6g toilets, for the next few years, it was the most confiscated item trying to be smuggled into the US at the Vermont border.

Funny, for you guys it's dairy and for us it's a conveyance for after-the-dairy-is-consumed.

"The US/Canadian Butter/Toilet Wars." There's a book in there, or at least an "Esquire" article. The cover would have a cow on a toilet, obviously, right?

Let me guess, the piece would be titled:

"Bowel MOOOOOvement"

(A hard-hitting expose by Bob K)

Jeeesh, JP.... that was bad. In a really funny kind of way.

Someone Rimshot the man, will 'ya?

I just Googled "cow sitting on toilet and these were the first two entries:





Just goes to show there are no new ideas any more. Sigh.

That toilet in the "photo" retails for around $4-5k. No shit.
That's extra. I'm not kidding about the toilet price. I saw one yesterday that was $7.5k.

I guess I've taken more than a few married women out for "lunch" on a Saturday. Their husbands wouldn't know that we were going to a plumbing supplier to spend a few thou on bath fixtures for an entire new "gut" that he has not yet been "told" was about to begin. Then he finds out that he's being moved out of his bedroom.

There ARE parts of my job that I really love. "Nooooo, don't buy that! Buy this!" It's great fun. Especially when they realize that you will always get it "righter" than they would have.

You are lying. You never googled anything! You have "Cows Sitting on Toilets" on your "favorites" list, don't you...don't you, J.P.?

Hey, my taste in porn is kinky, I'll give you that, but not in that direction.

You are a mental health provider. From my experience, it goes with the job.

Remind me to tell you about the Park Ave shrink and the peeled, hard-boiled eggs.

(I think it's extra funny when I say something that is so preposterous, that I MUST be telling tales, when I'm not!)