Makers

Vancouver, British Columbia · Shopify shop

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Brandy Fedoruk and Rebecca Dolen have been drawing, printing and hand-assembling paper goods on Main Street since 2005: $9 staple-bound composition notebooks — Map of Canada, Vancouver, Victoria, Atlantic Coast — each "inspired by vintage school composition books from days gone by" with "14 pages of plain recycled paper", grid and checklist notepads of roughly 50 recycled pages, letter-writing sets with coloured envelopes, postcard packs, buttons, magnets and a rack of more than 150 greeting card designs.

Bound notebooks and memorandum pads are HTS 4820.10.20 on the CBP Section 338 list, carrying a 50% additional duty since August 22, 2026. That lands on the wholesale side of a two-shop stationery store that has been supplying American retailers for nearly twenty years — "We also wholesale most of the products designed by us to other lovely retail shops across Canada, the United States and overseas" — and on anything they send to American customers themselves. Neither owner has published anything about the measure. · content.govdelivery.com, Aug 22, 2026