If duties become too high then it might be profitable to use a print on demand service in Canada. Then when you order a foreign book, the seller would send it electronically to the service which would print one copy and mail it to you. No physical object would cross the border so there would be no duties. Even if it were a bit more expensive than paying the duty, it might be worth it for the faster delivery and more satisfying to evade the tax.

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