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Ronvella will have to pay provincial sales and federal goods and services tax on the declared value of the reamer just as if he was buying it. Them's the rules - matters not what he actually pays - it's the insured value or the declared value- whichever is highest that get's taxed.

We cannot rent anything from a US company as such, as the CDN' Customs is afraid it will not be returned or that this is a scam like the 'gift' box on the declaration form to get away with paying less tax. Such is the state of affairs. BTW - 'gift' is taxed same as any other parcel.

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Would such duty not be able to be reclaimed if it re-export could be proved? It may be putting it in the too hard basket but I wonder if someone near to Hussey might be travelling "North of the Boarder" & would be able to take it in their CHECKED bagged & drop it in the post/courier bag once in Canada. It may be that posting it back would cause probs though. The other thing that occurs to me is that Canada must have a heap of Gunsmiths with 303 reamers languishing in the corners of their shops. Might be worth hitting the yellow pages & letting your fingers do the walking.
Steve.

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