You need to find out duty. Call a customs broker.

EDIT

Apply for a VAT refund. Hopefully they included the forms for you.

Yeah, the statement on the site says you have to include the VAT charge and then do the duty calculation. I also don’t believe you can get 100% of the VAT refunded - perhaps only 80%?. Certainly the refund will have a bank charge when you get it after submitting a paper application and months of waiting.

Obviously the new CETA agreement won’t help you here as the agreement has phase out periods of up to seven years depending on the product for tariffs and duties. It’s clear that rims (auto parts) are on the high end of duties where as a full vehicle is on the lower scale. (I think the range is from 4.5% to 22% depending on item).

Thanks...wouldn’t mind a set of twists like your car

No, imports from most of the eu have 6 % duty plus HST. The VAT tax is collected by the country of origin, not Canada. It isn’t duty.

But the foreign VAT must be applied to the sellers price and *then* the duties paid on that value. The BS Canadian Government (and Ontario) *theroy* is that by paying the foreign tax on an item - you have added value to said item so the duty paid shall always be on ‘total’ value. It’s the same BS reason why we pay taxes upon taxes when we buy gas at the pump. We have a federal excise tax hidden in the cost of gas that we then have PST piling on top of.

I pay a tax for rain falling on my roof in Mississauga - true story of Government corruption as I already pay property taxes. (Don’t get me started...)