Shipping to Canada???

MikeB · Sep 16, 2009

Anyone know the import/export laws to ship corals Canada?

MikeB · Sep 17, 2009

Bump....

stunreefer · Sep 17, 2009

Not to sure about shipipng, but going over the border you can only do "softies," corals without a skeleton; Without special permits that is.

MikeB · Sep 17, 2009

stunreefer said:
Not to sure about shipipng, but going over the border you can only do "softies," corals without a skeleton; Without special permits that is.

Someone wants some NUcs and PD's. Are they ok to ship to someone in Canada?

aerius007 · Sep 17, 2009

International shipping is a real pain. I had to ship a piece of audio equipment and there was tons of paper work, when I got to customs there was more paper work, in all the delivery was held up for over a week. I would be super cautious shipping anything and wouldnt think its worth the possible headache.

revhtree · Sep 17, 2009

Honestly I would be skeptical about the corals not getting held up and dying.

Viva'sReef · Sep 17, 2009

Aren't there any Canadians on the board to comment? I know it is a real hassle to ship to Canada. A friend of mine purchases all kinds of stuff and ships them to me to avoid delays of being held in customs, and to avoid paying PST and GST or whatever their taxes are called. Then he picks them up and drives across the border.

MikeB · Sep 17, 2009

Thanks for all the advice guys.

Sikryd · Sep 17, 2009

aerius007 said:
International shipping is a real pain. I had to ship a piece of audio equipment and there was tons of paper work, when I got to customs there was more paper work, in all the delivery was held up for over a week. I would be super cautious shipping anything and wouldnt think its worth the possible headache.

+1 And it isn't cheap.

I won't offer shipping to Canada ever again. (it wasn't corals - I wouldn't even think about it)

revhtree · Sep 17, 2009

Yea I am not shipping to Canada anymore either. I learned my lesson!

Palancar · Sep 21, 2009

You might be able to get some info from this thread when I was checking into it a while back. Got discouraged real quick.
https://www.reef2reef.com/forums/f20/shipping-frags-overseas-27214.html