North America Cross-border shopping between three countries in Canada, Mexico, and the United States is robust. The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) has reduced barriers and tariffs, facilitating cross-border trade. Each day 2008, $2 billion of cross-border trade was conducted between Canada and the United States alone. Consumers take part in cross-border trading to broaden their product selection, gain access to a larger market place, or take advantage of currency volatility. Online commerce has taken on a more prominent role in recent years and gives consumers a convenient platform for cross-border shopping. However, additional border costs such as duties, brokerage and shipping are not always disclosed up front or even known to the retailer, leading to a situation where the final cost of an item can greatly exceed expectations. Dedicated cross-border shopping solutions such as Wishabi, and Canada Post’s Borderfree exist to mitigate these problems with varied success.  In the end, caution is necessary to determine the final cost of goods before purchase. 
North America Cross-border shopping between three countries in Canada, Mexico, and the United States is robust. The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) has reduced barriers and tariffs, facilitating cross-border trade. Each day 2008, $2 billion of cross-border trade was conducted between Canada and the United States alone. Consumers take part in cross-border trading to broaden their product selection, gain access to a larger market place, or take advantage of currency volatility. Online commerce has taken on a more prominent role in recent years and gives consumers a convenient platform for cross-border shopping. However, additional border costs such as duties, brokerage and shipping are not always disclosed up front or even known to the retailer, leading to a situation where the final cost of an item can greatly exceed expectations. Dedicated cross-border shopping solutions such as Wishabi, and Canada Post’s Borderfree existed to mitigate these problems with varied success. Canada Post sold "Borderfree" in 2012: URL In the end, caution is necessary to determine the final cost of goods before purchase. During the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020-21, the United States was the largest cesspool of COVID on the planet in both absolute number of cases and absolute number of URL Canada closed its borders, leaving merchants who normally pandered to cross-border shoppers stranded with no access to their customers. Exclaves such as Point Roberts, Washington were particularly hard URL Specific business categories, such as parcel shops, tourism, fuel and dairy incurred severe losses in many border URL both US-Canada and US-Mexico trade incurred multi-billion dollar impacts, as many Mexican cross-border shoppers used to buy from Texans or from other border URL
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During the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020-21, the United States was the largest cesspool of COVID on the planet in both absolute number of cases and absolute number of URL Canada closed its borders, leaving merchants who normally pandered to cross-border shoppers stranded with no access to their customers. Exclaves such as Point Roberts, Washington were particularly hard URL Specific business categories, such as parcel shops, tourism, fuel and dairy incurred severe losses in many border URL both US-Canada and US-Mexico trade incurred multi-billion dollar impacts, as many Mexican cross-border shoppers used to buy from Texans or from other border URL