Flat rate shipping to USA / Calculated Shipping for Canada/ International

[rdemaree]

I am curious if there is a way to offer flat rate shipping only for the USA to avoid the ridiculous tariffs on non-CUSMA products so I can make those items DDP and raise the sipping cost for those items?

I still want to keep international as calculated shipping if possible.

Obviously id keep Canada as calculated as well.

Let me know if this is possible or if id have to make all international (including USA) flat rate instead of only USA

[byto253]

I think you would need to get estimates based on COO from a shipper that does DDP and factor that into your prices and shipping.   Not sure if Stallion or chitchats offers online estimators for DDP. 

[rdemaree]

I want to continue using eBay’s calculated shipping for my CUSMA compliant items as well as for all international and domestic orders in general

I only want to maybe do DDP for non CUSMA compliant USA orders

Which in theory shouldn’t be a lot of my orders but if CUSMA gets sidelined by trump or minimized I may need to go the DDP route with a flat rate shipping with tariff baked into shipping cost for all USA orders

[sapphyres-designer-jewellery]

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@byto253 wrote:

I think you would need to get estimates based on COO from a shipper that does DDP and factor that into your prices and shipping.   Not sure if Stallion or chitchats offers online estimators for DDP. 

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Not yet (Stallion), hopefully they put the estimator in before Aug 29 (like they have an estimator for shipping rates).

As well, I think if you're on eBay.ca and your international sales are calculated, that includes US shipping. If you are on dot.com you can do calculated international shipping (which would include Canada from there), and then do your flat rate US shipping.

C.

[sapphyres-designer-jewellery]

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@rdemaree wrote:
I want to continue using eBay’s calculated shipping for my CUSMA compliant items as well as for all international and domestic orders in general

I only want to maybe do DDP for non CUSMA compliant USA orders

Which in theory shouldn’t be a lot of my orders but if CUSMA gets sidelined by trump or minimized I may need to go the DDP route with a flat rate shipping with tariff baked into shipping cost for all USA orders

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You can set up business policies to differentiate between CUSMA compliant items and other items. I had something similar when the China items thing started, so my China items in the dot CA store had a policy for not shipping to the US. (Unsure if this really matters much now).

C.

[rdemaree]

I won’t be turning off shipping to the USA. I’ll do whatever needs to be done to ship everywhere. This is my full time income.

I am focusing on getting my product in physical Canadian stores whixh I have one I’ll be entering this coming fall and inquiring a few others but I’ve always shipped globally even to small obscure countries. I don’t turn away business no matter where it’s from. Happy to have shipped to so many countries over the years .

I am hoping over the next few weeks I’ll have a better idea on how all of this stuff is supposed to work and what I need to do.


80% of my shop is CUSMA stuff valued under $100 USD so my guess is if things go the way they should go I should technically be fine as long as a COO form is provided etc but trump has proven himself to be untrustworthy and spiteful so I’m trying to prepare for if CUSMA isn’t honoured.


But yeah my business plan for growth is entirely focused on getting into physical stores in Canada and attracting more international customers going forward.

The USA is undergoing an isolationist and dictatorial chapter right now. Bad for trade all around.

[recped]

Pretty sure it's the same in Canada, you can have Flate Rate for Domestic and Calculated for International but that would be a blanket, you can't have Calculated for some countries and Flat Rate for other countries, all or nothing. You can off course have different Flat Rates for different International Countries or regions.