Category Importing to Canada

Bank wires, Wise, PayPal or a letter of credit? An honest comparison of how to pay overseas suppliers from Canada, including the hidden exchange-rate cost.

An honest, line-by-line breakdown of one Kind Loom shipment — product, freight, duty, GST, brokerage, currency, last-mile — and the true per-unit cost it landed on.

A plain-English walkthrough of every input in a landed-cost calculator, how to find your CBSA duty rate, a worked example, and the mistakes I made.

HS codes decide the duty you pay at the border. Here's how tariff classification actually works in Canada, how to find your number, and the mistakes that cost small importers money.

What a customs broker actually does, how their fees are structured, and whether a small importer needs one now that CARM lets you self-clear. Here is what I have learned importing into Canada.

Air is fast and expensive, sea is cheap and slow — but the real decision is more nuanced. Here is how I weigh air vs sea freight for Kind Loom, including volumetric weight and LCL vs FCL.

From getting your import-export account to CARM registration, vetting a supplier, and clearing customs — the real steps I followed to import bedding from India into Canada.

Landed cost is the real number that decides whether you make money. Here is the full formula and a worked example for imported goods, from my own experience importing into Alberta.

The scariest moment in importing is the first wire transfer. Here's the exact checklist I use to vet a supplier — verify, sample, get it in writing — before I send a cent.

A real, itemized breakdown of what it costs to import cotton textiles from India to Canada — freight, duties, brokerage, and the fees nobody warns you about.