imported_BlazeInEk

Ok, you know how if you want something shipped from the US sometimes you can receive it as a "gift" so you don't have to pay duty on it? Well, I'm assuming that will work if you are driving back from the US. Officer says, "bringing anything back"? You say "yes, a steering wheel that I received as a gift". Ok, so they can't charge you duty on it because it is a gift? Well, will that work with booze? Say if you buy some booze and decide to claim it but say its a gift, can they charge you duty? Does it matter what the reason is for bringing booze back into Canada or can they charge you duty on booze coming into Canada regardless? What if it really was a gift?
Just curious.

Cynikal.Mindset

just buy the booze on the way over...open it in the states and then just say u partied in the states and the booze is left overs...as for a steering wheel..just toss the box and leave it in the trunk...people have spare car parts in their car all the time

imported_JoonyaSI

imported_Cablerat

Cynkinal knows his border crossings!

imported_Bruce Fee

when they ask if you're bringing anything back, just say "none of your business"

imported_BlazeInEk

I tried that once but afterwards I couldn't sit for a few days and walked a bit funny, hmmmm....

imported_vtec_boy

i got a 1300.00 aero kit from honda over the border in my mom's mini van and we didnt even get asked if we had ne thing......

if they would've opened the door they would have seen it clearly....

RajunCajun

It doesn't matter if it's a gift or not you still have to pay duty on it if you're crossing the border with it.

Usually they don't care though. They just want to check out everything you have. Unless you bringing back something major, like more than a few bottles of alcohol then yeah, they'll mind. But if it's a wheel and a bottle or two of booze I would just tell them, I doubt they'd say anything. As long as you have a receipt for the wheel, heh.

SiR b16a2

With the booze your allowed one case of beer or bottle per person. They ask you 100% of the time if you bought anything. When crosing from duty free shops only thing you can do is go stright across the border. I think if you go from Cananda into the US and stay for a period of 48hrs they wont make you pay taxes or anything like that. Just buy all the booze you want, if they ask you if you bought anything just tell them you bought a bottle, they wont search your car.

PS...Duty free shops on the US side are cheaper 2 24s for $28

sleepyhatch

Yeah lie to customs officers, avoiding 14% tax is definitley worth running the risk of spending hours at the border, getting the item confiscated and then paying fines on top of all that and then potentially getting put on a list of people who should be "checked out" everytime they cross the border.

Just pay the damn duty.

sleepyhatch

Tobacco and alcohol
You can include tobacco products and alcoholic beverages in your 48-hour (CAN$200) or your 7-day (CAN$750) exemption, but not in your 24-hour (CAN$50) exemption. All tobacco products and alcoholic beverages have to accompany you in your hand or checked luggage.

The following conditions apply:

Tobacco products
If you meet the age requirements set by the province or territory where you enter Canada, you can include in your personal entitlement all of the following:

– 200 cigarettes;

– 50 cigars or cigarillos;

– 200 tobacco sticks; and

– 200 grams (7 ounces) of manufactured tobacco.

If you include cigarettes, tobacco sticks, or manufactured tobacco in your personal allowance, only a partial exemption will apply. You will have to pay a special duty on these products unless they are marked “CANADA DUTY-PAID · À DROIT ACQUITTÉ.” You will find Canadian-made products sold at a duty-free shop marked this way. You can speed up your clearance by having your tobacco products available for inspection when you arrive.

If you bring in more than your exemption allowance, you will have to pay regular assessments on the excess amount. These regular assessments can include duties, taxes, and provincial or territorial fees. CBSA officers will give an allowance for products that are marked when they calculate the amounts owing.

Alcoholic beverages
If you meet the age requirements set by the province or territory where you enter Canada, you can include one of the following:

– 1.5 litres of wine (53 imperial ounces); or

– 1.14 litres (40 ounces) of liquor; or

– 24 × 355 ml cans/bottles (8.5 litres) of beer or ale.

You can bring in more than the free allowance of alcohol except in Nunavut and the Northwest Territories. However, the quantities have to be within the limit the province or territory sets, and, in most cases, you have to bring the quantities with you.

If the value of the goods is more than the free allowance, you will have to pay both customs and provincial or territorial assessments. For more information, check with the appropriate provincial or territorial liquor control authority before you leave Canada.

Notes

We classify coolers according to the type of alcohol they contain. For example, we consider beer coolers to be beer and wine coolers to be wine, and apply the quantity limits accordingly.
We do not classify beer or wine that contains 0.5% alcohol by volume or less as an alcoholic beverage. As a result, no quantity limit applies.

Gifts
While you are outside of Canada, you can send gifts free of duty and taxes to friends in Canada under certain conditions. To qualify, each gift must not be worth more than CAN$60 and cannot be a tobacco product, an alcoholic beverage, or advertising matter. If the gift is worth more than CAN$60, the recipient will have to pay regular duties on the excess amount.

It is always a good idea to include a gift card to avoid any misunderstanding.

While gifts you send from outside Canada do not count as part of your personal exemption, gifts you bring back in your personal baggage do.

http://www.cbsa-asfc.gc.ca/E/pub/cp/...tml#P203_25788

I went to school in the states, do not lie to customs under any circumstance.

xplicit r34

^^ word

imported_alwaysoverkill

Yup as said above, your allowed 1 bottle or case of beer per person. Meaning if you buy in canada and on the way back your over.

Gifts still count towards your allowed amount of merchandise and merchandise not made in North America is subject to further duties then the 14%.

97SiR

If you are planning on buying some car parts from the States, it's not a bad idea to have them installed. Then there is no way of anyone checking what was added on your car while you were in the States.

sleepyhatch

just make sure you pay cash.... harder to follow the transaction that way.

97SiR

Never thought about that, but I guess one could pay cash.