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Originally Posted by Thebunk
The irony is locally, there is no place to purchase the films I buy (and similarly the records I purchase as well). And online nationally you have UV and that is about it (not counting any “.ca” distributors / etailers) who I support plenty as it is. But they too don’t stock everything and sometimes the pricing is higher then international alternatives.
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We always have to remember that these rules were not designed for the extremely niche market that is physical film media. They were designed for things like clothes and electronics and other stuff like that, things that everyone buys, and would save a lot of money on if our de minimis was higher. It would also probably drive prices lower here, driving down profit margins for Canadian businesses.
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Originally Posted by Thebunk
What I also don’t get is they raised the amount of goods you can bring back from the US physically quite substantially a few years back.
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Physical, in-person cross-border shopping is a small fraction of the threat to Canadian business that international online shopping is.