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	<title>Better Value in Dollar</title>
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	<description>Cross Border Shopping &#38; Flight Guide for Canadians</description>
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		<title>5 Easy Steps to Calculate Canada Customs Duty and Taxes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[First of all I’d like to thank BoB for giving me this opportunity to write this guest post on betterdollar.com
His website has been very inspirational for me as a blogger on all things customs and made me realize how many people had questions.
So how many of you have not the slightest clue how to calculate [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://betterdollar.com/how-to-calculate-canada-customs-duty-and-taxes/</link>
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		<title>Flying cross US will be more expensive</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the draft 2012 U.S. federal budget sent to Congress, it’s proposed to add a $5.50 head tax per air passenger flying to US destinations.  However, there is no head tax for people crossing the border in cars.
It’s well-known that flying from US airports can save you hundreds of dollars, see our article.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://betterdollar.com/flying-cross-us-will-be-more-expensive/</link>
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		<title>Buying Cameras in the US, Saving me 25%</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My old point-and-shot Canon camera was completely dead last month with an image sensor problem.  The death was a slow and painful one. First it produced a discolored image once in a while. Then it generated an artistically colorful picture no where close to what I shot.
After extensive research, I set my mind on Panasonic [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://betterdollar.com/buying-cameras-in-the-us-saving-me-25/</link>
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		<title>What Tax to Charge for Out of Province Shipped Goods</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you buy only with Canada, from another province, the HST/GST rates are now different since July 1st, 2010.  Online stores based on provinces (except QC) are required to charge the tax based on the table below, from CRA.
The GST/HST rates for the goods recipients:




On or after July 1, 2010
On or after January 1, 2008, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://betterdollar.com/what-tax-to-charge-for-out-of-province-shipped-goods/</link>
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		<title>HST Coming to a Province Near You, on July 1st</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For Ontario and British Columbia residents, we are going to have a uniform value-added tax HST on July 1st, 2010.  By the government definition,
Generally, GST/HST registrants must charge and account for GST on taxable supplies (other than zero-rated supplies) of property and services made in Canada. However, where GST/HST registrants make taxable supplies (other [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://betterdollar.com/hst-coming-to-a-province-near-you-on-july-1st/</link>
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		<title>Designer clothing, garments &amp; apparels duty tariff</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Designer cloth and apparels are most common among what we Canadian bring back home from abroad. Duty for clothing, apparels and accessories are most complex depending on materials, country of origin and type and style. Hopefully, the following cover some most common items.

Leather or composition leather      cloth made in MFN [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://betterdollar.com/designer-clothing-garments-apparels/</link>
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		<title>Are there any duty on computers, laptops, printers, cellphone?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The most popular goods often invoke the most questions.
What&#8217;s the duty rate for computers, laptops, netbooks, printers (ink-jet printers), printer parts, scanners, photocopiers, hard-disks, monitors, modems, routers, switches?  And what about other gadgets such as cell phones, battery chargers, power supplies and controllers, video games, Digital cameras, TV cameras and video recorders?
The good news is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://betterdollar.com/are-there-any-duty-on-computers-laptops-printers/</link>
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		<title>What’s the duty/tax on Plasma/LCD HD TV?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Lately I was asked a lot of questions regarding importing large screen Plasma/LCD TVs from the US.
After a brief survey, I wasn&#8217;t surprised that there’s a sharp price disparity between the US and Canadian prices.  Take the popular Sharp &#8211; AQUOS 52&#8243; 1080p Flat-Panel LCD HDTV for example, both BestBuy.com and BestBuy.ca have a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://betterdollar.com/whats-the-duty-tax-on-plasmalcd-tv/</link>
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		<title>The Loonie is Almost on Par to US$. Let&#8217;s Go Shopping across the Border</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Did you notice that one Canadian Dollar can exchanged for nearly 0.98 US$ in the last few day?
Well some people did.  And the idea of cross border shopping jumped immediately to their mind.
I had two email in the last two days inviting me to two interviews.  One with CBC Winnipeg, and the with The Global [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://betterdollar.com/the-loonie-is-almost-on-par-to-us-lets-go-shopping-across-the-border/</link>
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		<title>Duty rate for Baths, shower-baths, sinks, wash-basins, bidets, lavatory pans, seats and covers, flushing cisterns and similar sanitary ware, of plastics.</title>
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Tariff Item
Description of Goods
Units of Measure
MFN Tariff
Applicable Preferential Tariffs


39.22
Baths, shower-baths, sinks, wash-basins, bidets, lavatory pans, seats and covers, flushing cisterns and similar sanitary ware, of plastics.





3922.10.00
Baths, shower-baths, sinks and wash-basins

6.5 %
CCCT, LDCT, UST, MT, MUST, CIAT, CT, CRT, IT, NT, SLT, PT: Free


3922.10.00.10
Shower stalls, excluding portable
NMB
6.5 %



3922.10.00.20
Wash basins (sinks), excluding portable
NMB
6.5 %



3922.10.00.30
Baths, whether or not [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://betterdollar.com/duty-rate-for-baths-shower-baths-sinks-wash-basins-bidets-lavatory-pans-seats-and-covers-flushing-cisterns-and-similar-sanitary-ware-of-plastics/</link>
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