US shopping and Customs

[couponmamaof03]

Just wondering if anyone can tell me when you coupon in the US, what are you charged on the amount before coupons or the amount after coupons?

[focusecho]

it should be after coupon amount as you are only declaring the amount that you spent

[katie333]

Yep after coupons.

[maple188]

Just wondering if anyone can tell me when you coupon in the US, what are you charged on the amount before coupons or the amount after coupons?

They only ask for your final amount spent.
I used to do a lot of crossborder shopping. I don't know if most people know but...
- Anything made in Canada, USA or Mexico are duty free (NAFTA) I used to keep clothing, appliances and such in a seperate bag if they wanted to see the tags for proof.
- Real groceries are duty free (not junk food)
- books are duty free
- depending on your border guards attitude these would be subtracted from your total $$ that you are bringing back into the country.
- Use the Canada Customs site to double check if they changed policies.
Happy Shopping.

[addismom]

Afer coupons

[Silk]

I always go by after coupons. But if they ask you the *value* of what you bought, that might be a different story

Silk

[i23i]

Couponing in the states is well worth it and is definately a bang for your buck u only delcare from what u spent not what u saved. I've gotten $700 dollars worth of stuff ( 700 is the amount u can bring back after being there 7 days, 400 for 2 days and so on and so forth), and I've only spent 300 - 400 and since the us dollar at the time is weak it made all the couponing worth it, better if u can get that membership card on those grocery stores for 3x saving we'd get our own extreme couponing

[couponmamaof03]

Thank you everyone for your responses.
Chris