At 07:24 AM 6/18/2004, Jan-Erik Soderholm wrote: >If you buy from the US (or the other way around), you could >always make two paypal transactions and use the lower >one as the shipping document. And of course mark the package >with the same (lower) value... I believe that is illegal. It is also just plain immoral. But darn it all, why do something like this? The fees that Canada Customs charges ($5.00 handling fee on top of the 7% GST) is so much more reasonable than what either UPS or FedEx charges. UPS hits me up for somewhere between $20.00 & $35.00 brokerage charges plus the GST on the package value PLUS the GST on their brokerage charges. All that for something that might have cost $20 to begin with. While I don't like the idea of GST personally, as a manufacturer I find it far better than the old Federal Sales Tax we used to have to pay: all locally manufactured goods were levied 12% FST but imported goods were not. The net result was that local manufacturers were that much less able to compete with imported goods. That all changed with the introduction of the Canadian GST. dwayne -- Dwayne Reid Trinity Electronics Systems Ltd Edmonton, AB, CANADA (780) 489-3199 voice (780) 487-6397 fax Celebrating 20 years of Engineering Innovation (1984 - 2004) .-. .-. .-. .-. .-. .-. .-. .-. .-. .- `-' `-' `-' `-' `-' `-' `-' `-' `-' Do NOT send unsolicited commercial email to this email address. This message neither grants consent to receive unsolicited commercial email nor is intended to solicit commercial email. -- http://www.piclist.com#nomail Going offline? Don't AutoReply us! email listserv@mitvma.mit.edu with SET PICList DIGEST in the body