Business Half-housing transportation, at the American border of Canada, also suffers from the economic uncertainty caused by customs duties.
This point in the collection is among the border border between the United States border, between Dundee, Quebec and Corington, in New York, leads to Canada, and the other in the United States.
Canadians spend a red door on Canada. The other side of the building is in New York.
Photo: CBC / Sarah Jeser
Canadians use the company’s services in American stores who do not deliver the border on the other side for decades.
Only one location Central house Place at the crossroads of the key questions between the United States and Canada: the limit to economic incidents from security, including the threat of customs tariffs, including the difficulty of being in a inflationary context.
The ground floor of the house is divided through a black line that ends Canada and the place where the United States begins.
Photo: CBC / Sarah Jeser
Customers who use the package service of this company are not exempt from government controls or costs.
They must leave the establishment with the non-departure, which leads to the Canadian Customs Station located on a hundred meters. If customs officials do not require a passport, they are adapted to the packages recovered.
Indicates that the Canadian Border Service Agency (ASFC) includes the rights and taxes of imported articles, including online purchases.
We analyze all the goods entering Canada to ensure that they properly declare and meet the import requirements.
Customers must declare their packages to Customs officials of Canada in Sainte-Agnès-de-Dundee, a few meters from the company’s doors.
Photo: CBC / Sarah Jeser
The 25% of the United States property has been in force of tax effect on March 4.
That is, in particular, the issues of this company have slowed significantly in recent months. Advertising campaigns to promote Canada’s purchase is also something.
The owner of this company, Louis Patuud, if he understands the will of Canada to buy local products, believes that it is essential to import the United States’s goods.
It is a consumer who will pay the highest price, which is all acting.
We do our job, we like to do it and hope to do our best (our customers)
added.
Louis Potaude, the company owner to transport the central housing
Photo: CBC / Sarah Jeser
A hotel, a bar, then a collection point
Was something at the time, there were a lot of people here
Luis Patuude, heading this company with his siblings. His father, Paul-Maurice, bought the building in the 1950s and took his family to the southern coast of Montreal.
Paul-Maurice Patuud has transformed the building (earlier a hotel) in a bar. It was a meeting place for this small cross-community and tourists. Dundee and the presfactance also became the mayor Mrc From Haut-Saint-Laurent before dying in 2022.
Bar, the bar located in the building, was presented in a photo book published in 1976, a Canadian National Office, which highlighted the relationship between Canada and the United States.
Photo: CBC / Sarah Jeser
Sorry when closed in 1990, friends were asked if they were using his American address to deliver products, which he accepted. The thread of the needle proposed to open a business. And that’s how it all started
says Louis Patuud.
Today, the bar is still on the ground floor. Beer bottles are piled and visible, dust dust.
However, this place is reserved for all kinds of plots. Professional shipping, automotive parts, personal items …
Sarah Jeser, according to a CBC report News
2025-04-20 21:43:00
