SMacF> I'm not sure that Canadian Customs would (could?) allow an
SMacF> opportunity to pass up where they'd be able to collect money...
SMacF> so the idea of a Canadian boat (like a CS or C&C) coming "back"
SMacF> to Canada from the States?... dunno, but they'd probably tax it
SMacF> as an American boat - and I know the duty we pay on incoming
SMacF> vessels is more than 1 1/2 - 2 percent!
I bought a CS in the US some years ago. Bringing it back to Canada was
not that much trouble. Even the paperwork was not that onerous.
Canada Customs was very helpful apart from the lady in charge at the
customs depot. She could not get it through her head that the CS was a
Canadian boat built only a few kilometres from where she worked.
"But it's being imported," she kept repeating.
My wife and I had had an enormous amount of trouble having her
repeatedly overruled by her head office.
Eventually she gave in but, when the boat arrived, subjected it to a
full-scale search and kept us waiting an inordinate amount of time,
several hours, in fact. I think she was miffed at being overruled and
was getting her own back.
I would certainly do it again depsite that experience. I think the lady
was trying to prove something and the way her staff rolled their eyes as
she did her thing made me sorry indeed for them. Just unfortunate, they
and I drew her, I guess.
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