Allowed houshold items to bring

[oagady]

Hi

Me and my family are immigrating to Canada in June (we are currently living in US). We are doing landing and bringing personal items simultaneously, and we are planning to bring all the personal items including mattresses (used). We found a conflicting info about bringing mattresses to Canada. In some lists of "not allowed items" mattresses are not mentioned. In others, the instructions are that if you want to bring mattresses, you have to fume them before.

Does anyone knows what the rule is?

Thanks
Olga

[PMM]

Hi

Hi

Me and my family are immigrating to Canada in June (we are currently living in US). We are doing landing and bringing personal items simultaneously, and we are planning to bring all the personal items including mattresses (used). We found a conflicting info about bringing mattresses to Canada. In some lists of "not allowed items" mattresses are not mentioned. In others, the instructions are that if you want to bring mattresses, you have to fume them before.

Does anyone knows what the rule is?

Thanks
Olga

Personal mattresses don't have to be fumigated, it is only commercial ones.

[oagady]

Thanks, PMM

This is a relief.


Regards
Olga

[Canooknic]

Sorry to throw this one up again, but I found the same restriction yesterday - we land in 2 weeks! - and I called Border Services to confirm it.
They have said that it does need to be done because there was an outbreak of bed-bugs last year??
We have found a couple of companies that will do it, so now we are working out the cost against just buying new ones when we arrive.
So frustrating because our boy's beds are the only furniture we are bringing with us!!!

[Liferocks]

What about new unused mattresses..............do we have to fumigate them??? please advise..............

[Canooknic]

New mattresses are fine, we're now trying to decide if it's cheaper to get them cleaned & ship them or buy new ones when we arrive

[steaky]

Are you getting the bed from Canada? Make sure the ones you are going to ship would be compatible with the new ones.  I'm going to bring both bed and mattresses from home country.

[oagady]

There is a legal article about mattress fumigation for moving to Canada. Apparently, there are exeptions, and it looks to me that the settles dont' get under the rule. I tried to post the link to the article, but got a message that I am not allowed to post the links

You can find this article, if you google "Mattress Fumigation us". This will be the forth result titled "Mattress Fumigation-Canada : British Expat Wiki"

Do we get under the following tariff (?):

Tariff No. 9807.00.00 concerns Settles Effect

If yes, then we do not need to fumigate