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brento1138
Joined: 17 Nov 2004
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 Posted: Fri Dec 30, 2005 8:21 pm Post subject: Sending Cigarettes to Canada |
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I am sending a "care" package including everything from funky T-shirts, ramen, bondeggi to my friends. It will include about 5 packs of cigs, collected from regions in Asia. Does anyone know if this is illegal, or something? I am not sure what I have to do, if anything, to send cigarettes in the mail. Anyone know?  |
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Kimchieluver
Joined: 02 Mar 2005
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| Posted: Fri Dec 30, 2005 10:53 pm Post subject: |
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| When you send the parcels.. Just mark the contents as "Christmas presents" No big deal. Oh and why on earth would you send then Bondeggi? |
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Jeonnam Jinx
Joined: 06 Oct 2005
Location: Jeonnam
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| Posted: Sat Dec 31, 2005 2:04 am Post subject: |
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| It's less than a carton of cigarettes (10 packs), so you might be safe, but duty might be placed on the cigs if customs opens the packages. |
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brento1138
Joined: 17 Nov 2004
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| Posted: Sat Dec 31, 2005 10:21 am Post subject: |
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| Kimchieluver wrote: |
| When you send the parcels.. Just mark the contents as "Christmas presents" No big deal. Oh and why on earth would you send then Bondeggi? |
Haha, the bondeggi is meant as a joke, not for actual consumption!! 
| Jeonnam Jinx wrote: |
| It's less than a carton of cigarettes (10 packs), so you might be safe, but duty might be placed on the cigs if customs opens the packages. |
Should I label on the outside the exact contents? Ahh well, I got 3 days till I mail this thing away. Anyone know? |
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ttompatz
Joined: 05 Sep 2005
Location: Kwangju, South Korea
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| Posted: Sat Dec 31, 2005 10:47 am Post subject: |
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| brento1138 wrote: |
| Kimchieluver wrote: |
| When you send the parcels.. Just mark the contents as "Christmas presents" No big deal. Oh and why on earth would you send then Bondeggi? |
Haha, the bondeggi is meant as a joke, not for actual consumption!!
| Jeonnam Jinx wrote: |
| It's less than a carton of cigarettes (10 packs), so you might be safe, but duty might be placed on the cigs if customs opens the packages. |
Should I label on the outside the exact contents? Ahh well, I got 3 days till I mail this thing away. Anyone know? |
The information you seek is in the CBSA website:
http://www.cbsa-asfc.gc.ca/import/courier/postal/ind_prohibited-e.html
http://www.cbsa-asfc.gc.ca/import/courier/postal/ind_duty_free-e.html
Cigs are subject to excise taxes, provincial sales tax and GST. Depending on the province they are destined for this amount can vary and be up to 20 cents per cigarette plus the $5 handling charge. If the cigs are undeclared and discovered then the whole package is subject to forfeiture and destruction.
The other stuff is duty free if packaged and marked as a gift AND has a combined value of less than $60 CAD. |
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