{"id":765,"date":"2012-10-21T08:37:25","date_gmt":"2012-10-21T08:37:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/clearit.ca\/customs-broker-blog\/bid\/87829\/7d4e61dd-28e3-4db8-90f0-4ebd44e059ef"},"modified":"2014-04-02T14:08:40","modified_gmt":"2014-04-02T18:08:40","slug":"how-can-clearit-ca-help-my-business-part-2-american-businesses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clearit.ca\/canadian-customs-broker-blog\/how-can-clearit-ca-help-my-business-part-2-american-businesses\/","title":{"rendered":"How can Clearit.ca help my small business? Part 2: American businesses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To many <em>American businesses<\/em>, of all sizes,Canada is a lucrative marketplace with over 32 million consumers. Thanks to emerging <strong>e-commerce opportunities<\/strong>, it is becoming easier and easier to tap this market and broaden sales. One element that has remained a problem though, is the border.<\/p>\n<p>Many Canadian consumers pay for items online from the states, only to receive a second bill from the shipping\/courier company (FedEx, UPS, etc.) for brokerage work, duties, and taxes. This may come as a surprise to most, and may put off a potentially returning client.<\/p>\n<h2>Solution: Non-Resident Importer Program<\/h2>\n<p>\u00a0The NRI program simply allows a company to become the importer of record for shipments going intoCanada, even without a physical presence there. Simply put, as a non-resident importer, you can relieve your customers of the responsibility of importations and be able to quote delivered prices.<\/p>\n<p><strong>FAQ<\/strong>: Will my company be responsible for paying the duties and taxes on the items we ship toCanada?<\/p>\n<p>The simple answer is: it depends. There is a number of ways you can configure yourself with Clearit.ca and the NRI program. For example:<\/p>\n<p>1)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 integrate pricing into your checkout, and become the importer of record<\/p>\n<p>2)\u00a0\u00a0 Have clearit.ca send an automatic email to your client post-checkout indicating items are being customs cleared and to make a simple payment online<\/p>\n<h3>With Clearit.ca and the NRI Program:<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sell<\/strong> on a \u201cdelivered price\u201d basis<\/p>\n<p><strong>Remove<\/strong> the border from your customers<\/p>\n<p><strong>Create<\/strong> a domestic purchasing environment<\/p>\n<p><strong>Control <\/strong>the process by managing the border<\/p>\n<h3><a title=\"part 3 trucking and forwarding\" href=\"http:\/\/clearit.ca\/how-can-clearit-ca-help-my-business-part-3-trucking-freight-forwarding\/\">Read part 3 here.<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To many American businesses, of all sizes,Canada is a lucrative marketplace with over 32 million consumers. Thanks to emerging e-commerce opportunities, it is becoming easier and easier to tap this market and broaden sales. One element that has remained a problem though, is the border. Many Canadian consumers pay for items online from the states, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":1218,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[278,9,12,142,250,198,1],"tags":[113,714,111,715,15,112,17,10,114,115,116,117,18],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clearit.ca\/canadian-customs-broker-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clearit.ca\/canadian-customs-broker-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clearit.ca\/canadian-customs-broker-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clearit.ca\/canadian-customs-broker-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clearit.ca\/canadian-customs-broker-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=765"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/clearit.ca\/canadian-customs-broker-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2408,"href":"https:\/\/clearit.ca\/canadian-customs-broker-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765\/revisions\/2408"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clearit.ca\/canadian-customs-broker-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clearit.ca\/canadian-customs-broker-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clearit.ca\/canadian-customs-broker-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clearit.ca\/canadian-customs-broker-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}