Shipping & Export
Every Steady Eddie package is manufactured in Western Canada and sold worldwide. This page explains how a kit ships, which trade terms we offer, what paperwork travels with every crate, and how duties and taxes are handled — so your freight, customs and finance teams can plan an order before the quotation lands.
This page is general guidance for planning an international purchase. Formal commercial terms — crate dimensions and weights, freight mode and lead time, HS classification, landed cost and the applicable Incoterm — are confirmed per product and per destination on your quotation. Nothing here replaces the quotation for your machine and your market.
How a kit ships.
A Steady Eddie package is a retrofit kit, not a machine: machined aluminium and fabricated steel actuator assemblies, the passive dock and mounting hardware, the control and compute enclosure, sensors and camera mast, and the Eddie-side harness set. It crates cleanly, travels as ordinary industrial freight, and installs at the destination with clamps and mounting plates — no drilling, no welding, no machine wiring.
Crated as a Complete Kit
Each product ships as a single crated kit: actuator assemblies, dock and fit kit, enclosure, sensor set and harnesses, packed and inventoried against the packing list crate by crate.
Export-Grade Packaging
Kits are palletised on heat-treated timber compliant with international wood-packaging rules (ISPM 15), with machined surfaces protected and hardware secured for handling at every leg of the journey.
Dimensions & Weight
Crate dimensions and gross weight differ by product — an excavator package does not crate like a forklift package. Both are confirmed per product on quotation, so your freight forwarder can book accurately.
Ready for Handover
Every crate carries its shipping documents, marked lift points and a contents list keyed to the install manual — the receiving crew knows what is in the box before it is opened.
Incoterms, in plain buyer English.
The Incoterm on your order decides three things: who arranges and pays the freight, who clears customs at each end, and where responsibility for the goods passes from us to you. We offer four terms that make sense for a crated industrial kit. Your quotation states one of them explicitly.
| Term | Who arranges & pays freight | Who clears export (Canada) | Who clears import & pays duties | Where risk transfers to you |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EXWEx Works | You. Your carrier collects the crated kit from our facility in Western Canada and you manage the whole journey. | You, with our documentation support. | You. | When the crate is made available to your carrier at our facility. |
| FCAFree Carrier | You pay the main carriage; we deliver the kit, export-cleared, to the carrier you nominate in Canada. | Steady Eddie. | You. | When the kit is handed to your nominated carrier. |
| CPTCarriage Paid To | Steady Eddie. We contract and pay carriage to the named destination on your order. | Steady Eddie. | You. | When the kit is handed to the first carrier — earlier than the freight paid-to point, which is the part of CPT that surprises buyers. |
| DAPDelivered at Place | Steady Eddie, all the way to the named place — your yard, site or warehouse — ready for unloading. | Steady Eddie. | You. Import clearance, duties and local taxes remain yours. | On arrival at the named place, before unloading. |
Rule of thumb: choose EXW or FCA if you have your own forwarder and freight rates; choose CPT or DAP if you want us to manage the carriage and simply receive the crate. Under every term we offer, you remain the importer of record in your own country — which most industrial buyers prefer, because import VAT/GST then flows through your own registration.
Air, ocean or road — the trade-off is speed against cost.
A crated retrofit kit moves by any of the three standard modes. Which one is right depends on how soon the machine needs its dock, and what the freight line on the landed cost is allowed to be. Lead time for your product and destination is confirmed at order confirmation, alongside the production schedule.
Air Freight
The fastest way to move a kit intercontinentally, and the most expensive per kilogram. The right choice when a machine is waiting and the schedule is worth more than the freight bill.
Ocean — LCL or FCL
The economical choice for intercontinental orders. A single kit travels as less-than-container-load (LCL) cargo; multi-kit orders can justify a full container (FCL), which also simplifies handling and customs at the destination port.
Road — North America
Within Canada, the United States and Mexico, kits move by truck direct from Western Canada — no port handling, and origin advantages under CUSMA/USMCA apply on the same continent the kit is built on.
What travels with every shipment.
Customs clearance is a documentation exercise, and we treat it with the same discipline as the engineering. Every shipment leaves with a complete, consistent document set, so the crate is never the reason a broker has questions.
Commercial Invoice
Full commercial detail of the kit: buyer, seller, product code, value, currency and the agreed Incoterm — the document your customs authority assesses duty against.
Packing List
Crate-by-crate contents, dimensions and weights as packed, keyed to the product's engineering documentation — what the receiving crew and the border officer both check against.
Certificate / Statement of Origin
Documenting the kit's Canadian origin, in the format the applicable trade agreement requires — the paper that turns origin into a duty preference at import.
Export Declaration & Broker Pack
Canadian export declaration where required, plus the supporting detail your customs broker needs — description of goods, materials and classification rationale — supplied with the shipment, not chased afterwards.
Classification: machinery and parts, not a machine
A Steady Eddie kit is a retrofit package of machinery equipment and parts — it is not a complete self-propelled machine, and it contains no engine, chassis or drivetrain. That distinction matters: it drives the HS classification, and with it the duty rate your customs authority applies. Tariff schedules and rulings differ by country, so we do not publish a single HS code as fact for every market. The classification for your product and destination is confirmed on quotation, with the rationale documented for your broker.
Who pays what, and when you know the landed cost.
Under all four terms we offer — EXW, FCA, CPT and DAP — you are the importer of record in your own country: import duty and import VAT/GST are assessed on your entry and paid through your registration. In most jurisdictions a VAT/GST-registered business recovers the import VAT/GST through its normal filings; your tax adviser can confirm the position for your entity.
What changes between the terms is the freight and clearance workload, not the tax bill. Your quotation sets this out as a landed-cost picture for your destination: kit price, freight under the chosen term, and the duty treatment that follows from classification and Canadian origin — so finance signs off on one number, not a series of surprises.
Canadian origin is worth money at your border.
Every kit is manufactured in Western Canada, and Canada holds preferential trade agreements with most of the markets we sell into. Where the kit meets the agreement's rules of origin, preferential duty rates — reduced, and in many cases zero — can apply at import.
United States & Mexico
Preferential treatment for qualifying Canadian goods across North America, claimed with a certification of origin on the shipment.
European Union
Canada's agreement with the EU provides preferential duty for qualifying originating goods, claimed through an origin declaration on the commercial documents.
Asia-Pacific
Preferential access to CPTPP member markets across the Asia-Pacific for qualifying Canadian goods, with certification of origin supplied where applicable.
Origin qualification is assessed per product against the specific agreement's rules, and the certificate or statement of origin is provided with the shipment where it applies. Whether your destination qualifies, and what the preference is worth, is stated on your quotation.
Screened per order. Shipped clean.
Steady Eddie ships in compliance with Canadian export requirements and with the restrictions that apply to each destination. Every order is screened before shipment — destination, end user and end use — and where a permit or further review is required, it is completed before the crate leaves Canada. This is routine programme discipline for an exporter of industrial equipment, and it protects you as the importer as much as it protects us.
Quotes are prepared per destination market.
Tell us the machine, the country and the timeline. Your quotation confirms the Incoterm, freight mode, crate dimensions and weight, classification and origin treatment, and the lead time for your build position — one document your operations, customs and finance teams can all work from. Compliance for your market is covered on the Standards & Compliance page.