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Drivesthebeast,Oct 28 2006, 11:06 AM Wrote:I just had to pay $97.00 in Brokerage fees yesterday to UPS.  The lady at the delivery company that UPS turned my box over to, said that it's a little "Thank you finger-in-the-pie" from the cdn and us gov't.  Free trade DOES NOT EXSIST
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Huh??? When you bring stuff over that was made in NA there is NO DUTY. You only pay the taxes. The brokerage fee charged by UPS has nothing to do with the Gov't. They keep all the money.

Usually when you pay UPS for your pkg it is a combined total of PST, GST and brokerage. So your $97 was probably mostly taxes and then the remainder was the fee charged by UPS to rape you for shipping.