Shipping to USA from Canada via Fed-ex, prepaying tariffs question

Those of you who use fed-ex to ship from Canada to the USA, can I pre-pay tariffs through an online fed-ex business account (already have one)? And how difficult is it to fill out their export forms? Excuse this basic question, but i found no straight answers online and It's very hard to get ahold of someone at Fed-ex who actually knows anything beyond help with tracking, nor do i have any real depots near me, just staples ship centres, and they know nothing, nor can you prepay tariffs at them.

 

With the holiday season near, I need to be sorted out, as 90% of my customers are USA. Just got sorted out with Zonos/Canada Post and shipped successfully, now i'm up a creek without a paddle.

 

Thank you for your time!

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Those of you who use fed-ex to ship from Canada to the USA, can I pre-pay tariffs through an online fed-ex business account (already have one)? And how difficult is it to fill out their export forms? Excuse this basic question, but i found no straight answers online and It's very hard to get ahold of someone at Fed-ex who actually knows anything beyond help with tracking, nor do i have any real depots near me, just staples ship centres, and they know nothing, nor can you prepay tariffs at them.

 

With the holiday season near, I need to be sorted out, as 90% of my customers are USA. Just got sorted out with Zonos/Canada Post and shipped successfully, now i'm up a creek without a paddle.

 

Thank you for your time!


I don't think this is something you want to do.

 

If you have access to Chit Chats or Stallion, you can prepay the tariffs with them, and it will be a whole lot cheaper (only cost 1.49 to clear each shipment if it's CUSMA compliant).

 

Fed Ex charges big brokerage fees, unless you raking it in with what you sell, you are better of closing during the strike than trying to ship with Fed Ex.

 

C.

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