Buying supplies in Canada to bring back to New York

[Eileen Murray]

Husband and I are in contract to purchase our first REI. A nice solid Duplex. We want to keep the rehab costs down as much as we can especially since we made the rookie mistake of overbidding. Anyway, if we can't get good cabinets in budget at a local auction, we would like to replace both kitchens with IKEA cabinetry, which we have in our own home and love. We can drive to Pittsburg - 4 hours or to Canada -2 hours. Current exchange rates make the transaction favorable to the US dollar and wed save about $500 shopping at the Canadian IKEA.

I'm concerned about duty charges and the high Canadian taxes and potential unknowns. 

Does anyone have experience in this? 

Cost of two IKEA Kitchens in US- $3818 about $500 less in Canada before all the above charges