Unless there's a prepaid duty program like eBay, Amazon, and Rockauto has, nope, it's a suprise. I got an email from Fedex saying I owe $50 before my package can be delivered. Not much choice in the matter as they have your goods.
Duties are paid on the value on the item. If not, every business would "gift" you the goods and charge you to buy an unrelated digital membership or jpeg download or something.
This is funny, because as a Canadian, we experience this on everything above $100 that we order from the US. Either find a Canadian supplier or get ready to pay hundreds in duties. I just paid over $100 to ship a $200 package that's arriving today.
Unless there's a prepaid duty program like eBay, Amazon, and Rockauto has, nope, it's a suprise. I got an email from Fedex saying I owe $50 before my package can be delivered. Not much choice in the matter as they have your goods.