There is an extremely large amount of cross border shipping between the United States and Canada. A great deal of that traffic is going in and out of Toronto. As Canada's largest city, and one of the biggest shipping hubs in Canada, so many people have questions about shipping to Toronto. One of the most common questions asked is, if they need a Toronto delivery made, what kinds of fees and taxes are they looking at for sending a shipment into Canada? This is always asked by people who may not have shipped to Canada before.
Usually, whether you're using a Toronto courier or an American courier, there are going to be three potential fees that you have to address. The first is the Canadian GST, or goods and services tax, which must be assessed on all goods purchased by someone in Canada. The GST is five percent, and is taxed on almost every item that is imported into Canada. There are also provincial sales taxes, or PST, that are applied in certain provinces but not all. The taxes are assessed after any customs duties, which we will address next.
When making a Toronto delivery, your item is obviously going to have to go through customs if its point of origin is anywhere outside of Canada. There are duties imposed on a wide variety of goods that are being imported into Canada. The only way to see if duty is going to be assessed to your particular shipment is to either contact the border agencies directly, or, more easily, simply contact your courier company and ask them. They will be intimately familiar with the laws regarding the shipping of all kinds of goods in and out of the country and will be able to tell you what kinds of fees and duties will be charged based on the actual items that you are shipping.
Finally, there could also be a brokerage fee or a processing fee applied by whatever service you use to move your goods into Canada. This fee can be imposed by a Toronto courier, a postal service, or one of the national or international shipping companies. The processing fee can vary widely, but is often a fixed amount for shipments with a very large range of sizes, which is why it can often be much more economical to send larger, rather than smaller, shipments. With today's economy, people are looking to save money in any way that they can. Even simple measures like this can help contribute to the overall bottom line.
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