From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jul 9 2: 3:10 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from beastie.saturn-tech.com (beastie.saturn-tech.com [207.229.19.136]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E0E637B401 for ; Mon, 9 Jul 2001 02:03:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from drussell@saturn-tech.com) Received: from localhost (drussell@localhost) by beastie.saturn-tech.com (8.11.1/8.11.0) with ESMTP id f699OT595115; Mon, 9 Jul 2001 03:24:29 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from drussell@saturn-tech.com) X-Authentication-Warning: beastie.saturn-tech.com: drussell owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2001 03:24:29 -0600 (MDT) From: Doug Russell To: Matthew Emmerton Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Mall now BSDCentral In-Reply-To: <018601c10767$5d70e430$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 8 Jul 2001, Matthew Emmerton wrote: > > Richard Hodges wrote: > I'm not sure how much of a difference the "certificate" would make, as far > as import duties goes. I live in Canada (Toronto, Ontario), and accoriding ... > duty, 7% GST, 8% provincial tax, plus a $5.00 handling charge by Canada > Post. (So much for NAFTA!) So on a USD$30 set of CDs (CAD$45), that works > out to be about $15 in taxes and fees due to the classification. I don't Hehe.. Yes. It has become a bit rediculous :( I think I may start selling FreeBSD CDs here in Canada to avoid all this nonsense. You'd still have to pay GST, but the $5 handling fee is the one that REALLY bothers me on small purchases from the US. I wonder what kind of lot size I'd have to be ready for for a 4.4-RELEASE? Later...... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message