The fares threaten the cross-border family business where Canadians collect US packages star-news.press/wp

The rates are spelling uncertainty that allow Canadians to use the US shipping address to receive State Packages.

Advancement of midfields is between Dundee, Que, and Fort Covington, NY, Canadian US border official passages.

A red door leads to Canada, the other in the United States and Canadians have been used for decades to shop from shops that do not ship through the border.

Canadian customer enters the property by guiding Chemin de Dundee Center, a gravel road from Montreal to south of Montreal.

The main floor of the house is divided into half a black line, finished Canada and marks the US.

The customer can ride on both sides of the line, picking packages, which are handled manually on the two bip-four shelves created by the Pataude family.

“It was something a day, we had a lot of people here,” Louis Patuud said that he runs the business with his siblings. His father, Paul-Maurice, bought the building in the 1950s and took his family there from the southern coast of Montreal.

Paul-Maurice transformed a building in a hotel to a bar, that Patuud became small-border communities and small tourists. Father ended down the prefection of Dundee and MRC in Haut-Saint-Laurent before he died in 2022.

We closed the “bar” 90, and the father was looking for something else. And friends asked them to send products to use his American address and you know, “move forward.” And then one thing took him to another and said “You have to start a business”. And so it started, “Patuud said.

The bar is in its own, on the main floor. Beer bottles are stacked on the screen that decorates the walls and business cards on the screen.

These days, the house is only used for plots. Pataudeuude says that they receive business packages, such as car parts for mechanics, as well as personal elements for daily abundant daily reasons.

“I asked for a small Christmas tree Alpin and the request of the Costco Canada request,” Chantal Barabé wrote CBC on Facebook, Trois-Rivières said.

“Although it’s a four-hour route, it’s worth a trip.”

House in the center of cross-border subjects

With a unique location, the Halfway house is seated at the crossroads of USA-Canada issues, from border security and currency incidents Rates and survival of small businesses in the face of economic uncertainty.

Location sorting customers are not exempt from government checks or fees. The property must be left via the left departure, which is a Customs checkpoint of Canada, 100 meters away. Patuud says that customs agents will not ask for a passport, but they will ask what packages they received.

The Canadian border service agency (CBSA) has said that it includes taxes and taxes on imported items, including online purchase orders.

“We project all the goods entering in Canada to ensure that the import requirements are properly declared and complied with,” CBSA spokesman Luke Reimer in a CBC email.

The 25 percent rate of goods coming from the US has been since March.

“CBS works in an operating environment that changes everyday and we are willing to respond and adapt to the way you need,” Reimer said.

Patauud said the business has slowed down in recent months and the uncertainty is the only one for sure. Customers pay a fee to use the central house service. If you buy U.S. products less Canadians, buy local campaigns or rates can cause problems for family businesses.

“All I see will have nothing to do with the rates. They will affect the ordinary person. They are those who will pay on both sides,” he said.

Potaude said that Canadian understands the impetus to buy natives so that they still have a reliable way to import goods from the US

“Many people have talked to him:” We can’t stop, we can’t get anywhere else. “So whatever, especially businesses, the consumer will pay the cost of the cost, which boils all.”

Potaude means that his family is as stable as possible, as the war progresses, but in the meantime, the future expects to have renewales of the building to go and store family memories.

“We’re trying to keep the building right now to fall and get to the business,” he said.

“We are doing our business, we like it and hope to do it as best for the people we need to do.”