Damn, what happened to NAFTA? I thought the Canada was the US' prison bitch =) I thought NAFTA would make trade between the US and Canada more favorable than Canada and Europe. Despite I just sent a midsize package(8 lbs) from the USA to Australia with tech stuff in it like Kingston RAM and big harddrives. I insured it(700.00 $) so it was widely visible on the package what was in it. No charge at all on the Australian side. 49 dollars shipping incl. insurance.(7 day air travel) Are you telling me the Canadian officers are so bored they touch and tax every package which crosses their borders??? mk
From: Chris Herrnberger
To: "Geordon VanTassle" , "Geordon VanTassle" CC: Subject: Re: [SLE] SuSE Books Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 15:52:47 -0400 On Thu, 10 May 2001, Geordon VanTassle wrote:
I don;t know if they ship to other countries, or what the shipping time is (nor relative cost) but http://www.bookpool.com has excellent prices on technical books.
Thanks for the reference, they do have good prices but here is the problem we are faced with in Canada.
SuSE Linux Server = 28.50 US (discounted price) 39.99 regular Canadian dollare = 1.45 US So = 41.35 CDN Shipping 10US = 14.50 CDN (approx) Import duty 30% = 12.40 CDN (approx and varies on the day..:)) ____________________________ = 68.24 CDN
My cost was (without exagerating) 74.90 so for a ten dollar savings I will need to waite approx 2-3 weeks for land shipment, If you go air well there are no savings.
So much for free trade in the America's. Whats interesting is that if these books were imported into Canada directly from Germany we could get them at about half the published rate as we have far better trade relations with the EU then with the US. The tarrifs are far lower.
Dont mean to get into US bashing, its just a reality up here that it ofter costs far more to get stuff from the States then from Europe but not is all cases.
eg: I made arrangement with SuSE a long time ago to get some software for our LUG. Despite the fact that the invoice and shipping bills indicated a zero commerical value. I had to pay some $300 Duty for 5 versions of SuSE 7.0 Proffesional thanks to an overzealouse duty officer. I was in need as a presentation was planned so I just paid it. I can of couse get it back and I will but not this year...:) Possibly in 2002.
Chris
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