Dutys shipping Rolex From US to Canada

[Castor]

Originally Posted by Rolex57

If the $ 1,108 you mention is true, he may as well just buy a plane ticket and fly there for a weekend and pick the watch up in person and go back to Canada with it.

Look, I'm a Canadian living in Toronto. I travel to the USA and abroad quite a bit both via air and via ground.

I've travelled back and forth wearing my Deepsea and my BLNR and I only wear t-shirts and golf-t's so there's no sleeves to hide the watch.

I have NEVER been asked about my Rolex's. Ever.

As long as you don't give them reason to believe you bought it outside of Canada like getting caught sneaking the box and paperwork back with you, then you'll be fine.

I suggest that you cross the border and set up a temporary mailbox at a UPS or FedEx outlet. Get the watch and boxes delivered there. When you go to pick the watch up, take along an extra shipping box with you and ship the box and goodies separately. If it's a recent Rolex, I'd just hide the Rolex watch card amongst my credit cards or in one of the zippered pockets in you wallet.

Declare a value of $20 on the box and goodies you mail home to Canada. No one's going to hassle you about an empty Rolex box sent through the mail. To think they'd stop your Rolex box and demand you to bring the watch in is utterly ridiculous. Customs has enough problems shaking down drug smuggling and stuff like that.

If worse comes to worse and they try to confiscate your watch at the border, just declare Section #337 from the Canada Customs Act and they'll have to hand it over.

What's a Section #337?