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Lac-Mégantic, Quebec · Shopify shop

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Out of its plant at Lac-Mégantic in the Eastern Townships, Bestar builds ready-to-assemble furniture in engineered wood and melamine: fold-down Murphy wall beds and freestanding cabinet beds (the Murphy Cabinet Bed with Pullout Drawer runs $1,785), Murphy beds with storage, desks or a sofa, modular Florence closet systems, desks, office storage and home entertainment units, in the Avalon, Barletta, Florence, Nebula and Pur collections.

Bestar’s Murphy beds and cabinet beds are wooden furniture of a kind used in the bedroom, HTS 9403.50.90, and its closet systems and home entertainment units are other wooden furniture, HTS 9403.60.80 — both lines on the CBP Section 338 list, both carrying a 50% additional duty on entry to the United States since August 22, 2026. Bestar ships south itself: "Bestar can only deliver products within the contiguous United States and Canada." The Murphy Cabinet Bed with Pullout Drawer lists from $1,785, and the duty is 50% of the declared value of every bed that crosses. The company has already been through one round of this. Its former parent eSolutions stopped manufacturing on May 1, 2026, citing "worsening financial conditions since 2021, including U.S. tariffs, reduced post-pandemic demand, increased offshore competition and ongoing cash constraints", and its lender Desjardins moved to have a receiver appointed; a Quebec court then approved the sale of the Lac-Mégantic plant to a group of local investors and all 157 unionized workers were recalled. · content.govdelivery.com, Aug 22, 2026