For the canadians

[Wompet]

I'm not lurking, I'm a member! Sheesh!
As someone who deals with this sort of thing (and the UPS and FedEx customs brokers) daily, I second everything Steve said above.

• Get the NAFTA Certificate of Origin
• Ship by US Postal Service/Canada Post. It will take longer, but the broker/carrier won't be charging you an exorbitant fee. Also, if Canadian Customs is like our International Mail Branch, they're not going to be worried about a package of clothes. There are too many packages and too little time to tax clothes when there are higher ticket items to find.
• Post your kiltmaker's name. Maybe one of your fellow Canadians has dealt with him before, and could give you feedback from personal experience.

And one last word on FedEx - .
Sorry, I needed to get that out of my system - they've been again.

I almost forgot - NAFTA will apply only if you're using a US kiltmaker (obviously).
In the case where NAFTA doesn't apply, you can find which applicable tariff will have you pay the least, and have the kiltmaker put that tariff on the invoice. I have a link for the US Harmonized Tariff Schedule around here somewhere; I've never looked for the Canadian version but I'm sure it can be found ...

[Canadian_Kilt]

Thanks for the advice all. Admittedly I'm generally a 'play by the rules' type of guy. I'm not really interested in having vendors mislabel packages to try and avoid a fee I should be paying. If it's labelled and valued properly and gets bypassed, well that's their loss.

Anyways taking into account the Duty, the price at my local shop is only marginally more than the online shops I've talked to. I've decided that premium is worth having it handled locally. I will definately be buying accessories online in the future though so this advice is great. Thanks for your input!

[The Wizard of BC]

Another option for you is to buy online from one of our fine Canadian dealers.

That way the dealer is handling duties for you.

What are you looking for specifically?