On Thu, 8 Aug 2002, William Robb wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Ayash Kanto Mukherjee > Subject: Re: Strange Canadian Customs > > > > So, no sales tax, tariff, administrative fees for new items or > is it the > > country from where the item is coming matters? > > What is administrative fees? Just inquisitive. > > I suspect it is a country of origin thing, as they should be > taxing anything coming into Canada with the federal sales tax, > at the very least. > An administrative fee is any fee charged over and above the > tarrif rate to handle the package. Private companies such as UPS > call it a "brokerage fee". > William Robb
Thanks for the explanation. With regards, Ayash. - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .