Originally Posted by cyclestart  I'm in an unusual location here. A round trip can usually be completed in 30 minutes. There are real shipping savings to be had. The downside is the fees due at the border. This is a little used port and the customs people have plenty of time for paper work. . |
What you want to do is prepare a B3 before you make the trip to customs, I am sure the duty officer will welcome it.
The CRA has a fillable B3 on their web site, and also the Commodity code PDF manual is there, they have made it in to one now for all codes, so it is a bit cumbersome to wade through, but if you are importing tool/electrical/machinery etc, just use the Adobe search in class 8400 or 8500, most items will be in this section and you can pick one which has no duty.
If USPS, get the sender to put an invoice on the outside with the commodity code you selected, if customs check it, they will use this number, rather than look it up.
Al.