Shipping Tobacco From US to Canada

[Pugsley]

I have two lots on the auction, both for tobacco, and in the event that someone north of the border should be the high bidder, how do I go about shipping tobacco to Canada? What do I declare on the form? What penalties or taxes does the intended recipient face? Any info or advice would be greatly appreciated.

[bluenoser]

I've always prefered to declare as is with a low value. (last cigar order, $70, I had declared as cigars but with a $20 value) There's a chance the package may get hit with taxes (usually just taxed on declared value) but in the odd chance it gets checked by customs and it's mis-declared they often confiscate and destroy or charge an insane taxation on it. Some people prefer to mis-declare to avoid taxes but personally I hate to see something get destroyed. Also they seem much less prone to hit pipe tobacco over cigars for some reason, I've had half a dozen pipe tobacco orders never touched and 2 of 6 or 7 cigar orders hit.

[Pugsley]

I'd hate to see this get destroyed. While the main items are very rare, the bonus items are irreplaceable.

[Lynn]

1- ship first class plain small box, weighing less than 1lb to 2lbs...do not use us postal boxes they are scanned.
2- do on line declaration for a birthday gift.
3- put on postage attach declaration.
4- ship and watch on line for delivery.
5- border crossing can be finger nail biting.

[Pugsley]

Yikes! Sounds scary.

[Haebar]

Be sure and mail it early, it can take weeks to get through customs.

[Aguineapig]

Some friends of mine in Canada are both big smokers, and they order all their tobacco to a PO box in Maine and bring it across the border piece meal. They won't bat an eyelash at an otherwise polite and uneventful person crossing the border wit an allowable amount of tobacco (200g, 50 cigars, or a carton of cigarettes, is the theoretical limit, although I wouldn't try to bring all that across when you say you're staying for a couple day visit LOL). I have brought more than 200g across though, and a friend of mind brings 1.5lb box of stokkebye flake across every time he goes. He just declares it as "one container of pipe tobacco for my own use".

[Alligator Gar]

I have shipped numerous times to AU, GB and Canandana with zero problems. Cigars are always declared as 'scented candles' and pipe tobacco as 'mens' products', 'deodorant' or 'incense'. I keep value below $50.

[Bruck]

I hope this doesn't make me an international smuggler, but I sent some pipe tobacco to the man with a blue nose a year or two ago and didn't say a thing on it, IIRC. I did set the value at very low, which was actually true - it was some heavily Lakeland-ed floral aromatics that only a guy with frozen nostrils would enjoy

[bluenoser]

I hope this doesn't make me an international smuggler, but I sent some pipe tobacco to the man with a blue nose a year or two ago and didn't say a thing on it, IIRC. I did set the value at very low, which was actually true - it was some heavily Lakeland-ed floral aromatics that only a guy with frozen nostrils would enjoy

Not an everyday smoke but I enjoy them from time to time... winter's comin and the nostrils are gettin a chill...