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Old 10-25-2019, 04:11 AM
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Do you have to pay an import duty for drugs imported from Canada into USA.?
I ask, as our youngest daughter imports a thyroid medication unavailable in UK from US. She has to pay a large handling and import duty charge on its arrival.
Whilst my wife and I are in US we could get a few months worth of medication from Canada to take home with us, avoiding import duty.
Sounds silly, but the US company she buys from, is not allowed to sell the medication in the USA. It originates in New Zealand.
The pharmaceutical companies have managed to get this natural and for many years, the only treatment discontinued in many countries in favour of their synthetic replacement, ($$$$$) which was and is, ineffective with our daughter.
The one she uses is the only thing that works and gives her a normal standard of life.