Moving freight across the U.S.-Canada border is essentially as easy as moving freight domestically: there are just a few extra steps involved. The biggest differences are working with a licensed customs broker and filling out customs documents. Working with a licensed and bonded carrier that is well-experienced moving freight across the border makes the process easy!
How valuable is U.S.-Canada freight? It’s worth billions of dollars a month, with roughly 60 percent being carried by truck.
But what’s even more interesting is that the value of U.S.-Canada freight exceeds that of U.S.-Mexico freight — by several billion dollars a month.
Logistics is essential to international distribution. Unfortunately, many of the U.S. businesses that want to dominate the North American shipping arena still haven't figured out how to keep their goods flowing into Canada consistently.
Here are four of the big factors that businesses commonly overlook in their quests to extend their domains.
Your shipments to Canada must clear Canadian customs before moving to their final destination, a maze that can stall your supply chain. The process is particularly cumbersome if you are not familiar with international freight forwarding and customs regulations.
Canadian customs compliance is a highly involved and resource-intensive operation because of customs-related mandates. Canadian customs compliance involves documentation handling, security practices, interaction with customs brokers and data/information exchange to multiple government agencies.
For the trucking industry, it always has been a major undertaking. Numerous regulations — from the extremely specific to the incredibly vague — allow for vast interpretation.