Pentax seems to have announced an online direct-to-Canada store (https://shoppentax.ca). This seems to be a way to bypass US tariffs. Lindt chocolate has announced direct to Canada exports; they previously shipped to the US from where Canadian orders were filled. I wonder if there are more chocolate lovers in Canada than Pentax buyers. My first camera was a Spotmatic, bought in 1968, and I still use it now and then.
It will be interesting to see if MPB(UK) begins to ship to Canada if sales into Canada from MPB(US) stall. I emailed a couple of the UK stores a month ago that sell used photo gear but they don't ship to Canada. Does anyone know if their exports to continental Europe suffered after Brexit?
I'm hoping that Peugeot/Citroen and others start to export into Canada from the French islands off Newfoundland, St Pierre-Miquelon. I'm annoyed that Mexico, Central and South America can get all kinds of interesting European cars but Canada doesn't. I want a small light vehicle and they are no longer sold here.
Buying in Spain from Britain.
I used to use a London dealer, Grays of Westminster, after my local Spanish wholesaler bit the dust due to the loss of the valuable colour print and processing chemicals market a few years after digital came along. Wonderful company, Grays, around a long time, and Nikon specialists. Brexit came and that, for me, was the end of that. Import duty. Pointless even thinking about it.
For you, it would all depend on import duty as charged by Canada.
In the event, Brexit helped end my interest in equipment. I live on the Spanish island of Mallorca; it doesn’t offer the kind of photographic services taken for granted in some countries, taste and try before you by is a myth, and prices are high: my old wholesaler here, you had to be a professional to buy from them at wholesale prices, was about the same price as in Britain, buying at retail there.
