Does anyone know if IKEA furniture is made within north America?

It's just I have heard that if something is made in north America you don't have to pay tax when crossing the border?

Stuff is so much cheaper than in IKEA stores in Canada so I figured it would be more beneficial to buy stuff in US stores providing the no tax thing!!!!

Thanks!!!

Unlikely. IKEA furniture like most everything these days will be made in a low cost economy - China, Indonesia, Mexico etc. As such it will not be eligable for duty free import under NAFTA.

Any IKEA stuff I have is made in various places around the world but I haven't seen anything made in North America. I assume the IKEA stuff you get here is made in the same places as the IKEA stuff in the UK.

Also there's not much point in buying in the US you will still have to pay tax on it when you bring it over the border. I'm sure someone else will explain in more detail.

Oh, yes. That would be a great read. I can't wait. I hope the post is long, written in one big paragraph and has no punctuation. I'm all horny now just thinking about it.

I hope your wish comes true, you may want to go for a cold shower first.

I've paid tax on US Ikea stuff coming in to Canada, there was no duty (not because it was Nafta, but maybe just because there's no duty on furniture...dunno!) - GST and PST were payable.

Just dug out the receipt - on 580.53 USD worth of stuff I paid (before GST rate changed? US was 1.0627) 76.49 CAD in tax. The stuff was categorised by Canada customs as "Cabinets - wooden, domestic, NES 9403.60.10.39" - whatever that means. They're usually nice to me at this crossing, and they often say "I've just put that under this category because there's no duty/ or gst on that, but I can't remember if this was one of those times or if there simply isn't duty on furniture.

well its like this you see the guvmint in ottawa decides to charge import duties for when you done bring in things that wasnt made here so they can give money to the poor auto workers in that nice mr hargroves trade union thingy and when you come over the border with stuff the guvmint inspectors look at your stuff with their special inspectoring glasses and they tell you how much money yall are gonna have to give them except that if your stuff was made in the good ol yew ess of ay them merkins will get all upset cause they dont want you to take money from their own unions and give it to mr hargrove so their guvmint and our guvmint made this deal right and they called it naff ter or somefink so if you brought stuff from a shop in merka and it was made there then you can bring it home with you to canada and you dont have to pay nothing to nobody at the border but if it wasnt made in merka or even in mexico then you have to pay them the money.

Will that do?

You probably won't get a reply for a while from HWP if you know what I mean!!!

well, anything one can do for a fellow expat in her hour of need......

Hour!!!! a b****y hour

To coin a phrase "I'll have what she's having" (unless its a paragraph about import duties and such like of course!)

Oh my. I wish I'd said that.

<I probably will quite soon>

Some IKEA stuff is made in North America, but I suspect it is not much.

If you buy in the US you will pay whatever the sales tax is in the State you visit, plus you will have to pay GST and PST when you import it back into Canada. There is no import duty on most furniture, but there is on fabrics, mattresses and most light fixtures. These are at various rates.

94 - Chapter 94 of the harmonized tariff schedule deals with manufactured articles of furniture, bedding and lighting.

9403.60 Is a catch-all category for other wooden furniture.

Even with punctuation, it's enough to get the heart pumping.

I've been considering googling a long article on NAFTA Exemptions To Import Duty and removing most of the punctuation and all of the paragraph breaks.

If HWP will post a link to her webcam so that I can watch while she reads it, I'll go to the tedious trouble of doing it.

What sort of like an "I'll show you mine if you show me yours" scenario?