Shipping to Canada:

We ship FEDEX Ground to Canada unless you request otherwise.

You can read the Canadian policy on line at FEDEX – but to make it short – your total cost is:

Cost of merchandise

Plus 5% GST

Plus PST (0-13% dependent on your province)

Plus Brokerage Fee

Plus Shipping

We do not ship without payment in full. You should pay nothing more if we have calculated properly.

You can calculate the costs of your order by continuing to read. Amounts are calculated in Canadian dollars, but are paid in U.S. dollars.

GST (Goods and Service Tax) - Additional 5% customs fee based on price of item ($100 x 5% = $5)

PST (Provincial Sales Tax) – based on your Province.

Provincial Sales Taxes

Separate Provincial Sales Taxes (PST) are collected in the provinces of British Columbia, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec, and Prince Edward Island. Goods to which the tax is applied varies by province, as does the rate. Moreover, for those provinces whose provincial sales tax is applied to the combined cost and GST, provincial revenues decline or increase with respective changes in the GST.

Province	rate (%)	combined fed./prov. rate (%)	note
Alberta	0	5	Alberta has no provincial sales tax
British Columbia	7	12	Officially known as the Social Service Tax [1] Reduced from 7.5% Oct 2004 Alcohol is taxed at 10% [2]
Saskatchewan	5	10	Reduced from 7% on 28 October 2006 [3] There is a separate 10% liquor consumption tax
Manitoba	7	12
Ontario	8	13	PST is usually 8%, but is 5% on lodging, 10% on entertainment and alcohol at restaurants, and 12% on alcohol at retail stores [4]
Quebec	7.5	12.875	Provincial rate is nominally 7.5%, but is also applied to the federal 5% GST so effectively 7.875%
Prince Edward Island	10	15.5	Provincial rate is nominally 10%, but is also applied to the federal 5% GST so effectively 10.5%
New Brunswick	13		*Harmonized Sales Tax includes provincial tax and GST
Newfoundland and Labrador	13
Nova Scotia	13

HST (Harmonized Sales Tax) - based on an agreement between the provinces of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and the federal government, GST and PST taxes were combined into a flat rate of 13% for the three participating provinces which is known as the Harmonized Sales Tax (HST).

Brokerage Fee – This is amount paid to FedEx customs broker. If you have your own broker, please specify that.

Shipping Cost – Our shopping cart calculates the cost of shipping Ground to Canada accurately. Ground shipping uses ACTUAL weight. If you choose to have us ship Express instead, the shipping cost on the cart will be wrong. Hopefully, someday, FEDEX will create a software so this doesn’t happen. Express shipments use DIMENSIONAL weight – not ACTUAL weight.