Cost involved in shipping small machine tool from Canada ?.. ..

Costs other than the freight, on a machine with invoice at 12,000 USD, made in Europe....i.e some notion of the more annoying extras that one would not have to pay if a U.S. purchase, such as freight forwarder, duty and whatever else you can think of. Machine does not need crating.

On the couple of thing I have brought in from overseas the paper work was about $300.00 above shipping cost. If you have sales tax in your state you will have to pay use tax unless you take care of it ahead of time.
I believe duty is 1.2% on used machine tools.

I used Derringer & Co good people to do business with US Customs Brokers, Shipping Logistics, Customs Clearance | Deringer

At that cost I doubt if this applies but in buying old tools from Britain if the item is over 100 years old? there is no VAT tax. I assume this applies to furniture and art as well.
Bill D.

Living in Oregon and purchasing items out of Vancouver BC (two lathes), I can say that in general there was no problem at all if using your own trailer. I can't even remember paying any significant border charges at all.

Canadian border procedures are a dream. The agents are polite, efficient and very clever at profiling you as to whether you are just the crazy machine-collector that you claim to be or something more sinister. They seem to be more interested in seeing if you have weapons than anything else.

I regretfully have to say this but US border agencies CAN be a pain. On one trip I took a trailer to Vancouver BC but never completed a purchase. US border personnel just could not get the idea that I had taken the trailer to buy a machine but the deal was not completed so I was returning empty. I was pulled over into a search area and the agents were proposing getting into the tubes of the trailer because they thought I might have packed drugs in there for the return journey.

I did bring one lathe from BC to the US by freight carrier but this was as part of a standard business run made by the seller. They loaded the lathe on a flat-bed at their BC facility and it was dropped of at their local representative in the US - no charges.

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imported_brian_m said:

Living in Oregon and purchasing items out of Vancouver BC (two lathes), I can say that in general there was no problem at all if using your own trailer. I can't even remember paying any significant border charges at all.

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Hmmmm....apparently you missed my topic of a few years ago...

http://www.practicalmachinist.com/v...da-customs-hell-156911/?highlight=aciera+hell

OT response: Sneaking in here, due to closure elsewhere. Milacron, have you checked display zoom status on your 6s caliper issue? Just a thought.

I now return you to your regularly-scheduled thread.

Chip