Simplify customs clearance

Simplify your cross-border trade with our cutting-edge customs brokerage services.

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e-commerce items

Streamlined processes for fast-moving consumer goods, ensuring timely delivery to your customers.

Retail

Efficient customs solutions for retail products, from clothing to electronics, ensuring smooth market entry.

Agriculture & live animals

Specialized handling and compliance with health and safety regulations for live animal imports.

Vehicles & automotive parts

Expertise in the importation of cars, trucks, and parts, including compliance with safety standards and emissions regulations.

Tech & consumer electronics

Efficient handling of high-value electronic goods, ensuring quick clearance and protection against damage.

Pharmaceuticals & health

Ensuring compliance with stringent health regulations for importing medicines and medical devices.

Food & beverages

Managing the import of food products with a focus on safety, quality, and compliance with food safety standards

Clothing & textiles

Simplifying the import process for apparel and fabrics, ensuring timely market entry.

Furniture

Facilitating the import of furniture with expertise in compliance and logistics.

Plastics & other raw materials

Managing the import of chemicals, plastics, and other raw materials.

Machinery & heavy equipment

Handling oil and gas, farming and agricultural equipment, and construction machinery.

Plants & flowers

Import solutions for garden centers and horticultural products.
“Working with Borderbuddy has transformed our trade operations. Their seamless customs clearance services made importing and exporting hassle-free. We couldn't be happier with their professionalism and expertise. Highly recommended!”
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Why do I need a customs broker?

Customs brokers help simplify the process of moving products over the border. While you don’t legally need a customs broker, there are many products that are difficult to get over the border without the help of one. By using a customs broker you can get your stuff over the border faster and with less hassle.

What is a customs broker and how can they help me?

A customs broker is a licensed individual or company that works closely with border agents in other countries to make sure that goods being imported or exported have met all requirements. A good customs broker will help you with the paperwork and administration and will be available to answer questions on your behalf

What is a customs clearance?

“Customs clearance” or “clearing customs” is a phrase we hear a lot in our business. What it really means is the item that’s being imported or exported has met a country’s requirements for entering or leaving its borders. Those requirements vary from country to country and from one item to another. We can help you “clear customs” fast, with less paperwork and fewer headaches.

What is a tariff code?

A Harmonized Tariff Code or HS Tariff Code is a list of all the classification codes for goods that are being imported or exported. There are over 17,000 unique classification codes and each country has its own tariff schedule. Here are the tariff schedules for both the USA and Canada.

What are your customs broker fees?

Our fees are variable based on the complexity of the import, frequency, value, and other factors. Get a duty and tax estimate to learn more about our standard rates, or contact us to discuss pricing tailored to your small or medium-sized business, or our competitive enterprise rates.

What is an HS code? / How do I look up an HS code?

The Harmonized System is an international naming structure for the classification of products. It allows participating countries to classify traded goods on a common basis for customs purposes. At the international level, the Harmonized System (HS) for classifying goods is a six-digit code system. You can look up an HS code for shipments into Canada on the Canada Border Services Agency’s webpage for Customs Tariff. For shipments into the United States, you can use this list of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule to look up an HS code.

How do I import or ship a vehicle to Canada / USA?

When it comes to importing a vehicle to or from Canada or the US, we recommend that you start by checking our Learning Center. Here you’ll find up-to-date information and instructions on how to get started and what kind of specifics and paperwork you’ll need. Specifically to import a vehicle into Canada from the U.S., there’s a 6 step process that we outline in this helpful infographic as well as The 5 Things You Need to do to Import a Car from The US to Canada.

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