I certainly realize I'm lucky to have gotten away with that time. I didn't pay too much attention to that section when signing up as at the time there was no conceivable reason for me to travel internationally on business - all of our operations are within Canada. Like I mentioned, I flipped through the pamphlet the next day and remembered that this is prohibited. The only reason I actually declared it as a commercial good is to be in 100% compliance... which is what the success of these programs relies upon. If I was to have gone through the regular lanes prior to being a Nexus member I wouldn't have even declared it on the form as it was such an inconsequential item. There was zero chance that any agent could have determined it was a commercial good by looking at the package or its contents. As Nazdoom stated happens often, I went to secondary with the seeming majority of agents who don't know or care about this rule - they were actually surprised and a bit miffed that I was sent to secondary for something as useless as what I had. After looking at my "good", the agent said "That's it? They sent you over here for this? You may go, please have a good night"
Certainly won't be doing it again anyway.
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