Tracking toy tariffs

Sounds like EE is basically adopting the same policy as BBTS which makes sense. I'm just sitting here annoying that my Mondo Spider-Man which was supposed to ship in November is still outstanding as that may get a bump that I'm not willing to cover.
 
Misfit said:
Sounds like EE is basically adopting the same policy as BBTS which makes sense. I'm just sitting here annoying that my Mondo Spider-Man which was supposed to ship in November is still outstanding as that may get a bump that I'm not willing to cover.
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Yeah that’s kinda where I’m at the moment. I get it but like I have 16 iron grenadiers preordered that should’ve been here months ago as well as the playmates Voltron. I’m good paying an extra tariff because I don’t expect them to swallow it but I’m not great paying for it on items that are super late.


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I'm right there with you on some Neca items that everyone else has had for months. I bought them during one of those spend more save more sales they do and one thing from each order HAS shipped and they didn't charge me for it so I'm assuming if I cancel anything now they will go back and charge me for those items since I wouldn't meet the threshold to save what I did at the time.
 
Justice said:
I'm right there with you on some Neca items that everyone else has had for months. I bought them during one of those spend more save more sales they do and one thing from each order HAS shipped and they didn't charge me for it so I'm assuming if I cancel anything now they will go back and charge me for those items since I wouldn't meet the threshold to save what I did at the time.
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Yeah I saw people would be able to cancel without penalty but not sure what that means. My IGs were apart of several spend more save more orders so don’t really want to pay back the save more portion lol


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Buttmunch said:
I wouldn’t be surprised if that’s what many companies (not just toys) start doing until things get under control. $100 or more on any package is just insane. $5 t-shirt could suddenly be a $105 t-shirt? Yep, lots of packages are going to get abandoned if that’s the case.
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That's exactly what's happening. I've read some folks in shipping saying their shipments are smaller than during COVID. The supply chain is going to implode again and this time it's entirely self-inflicted. I can't wait to see how much inflation comes with it.

We're sleepwalking into a recession and I think it has a genuine chance to be a capital D depression.
 
RicksNerdLife said:
Effective May 2, 2025, the U.S. will enforce a new tax rule for packages from China or Hong Kong, charging 120% of the declared value or $100 (whichever is higher), increasing to $200 on June 1.
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Whichever is HIGHER? What the hell? On low-cost items this is astronomically higher than any previous tariff talk I've heard in the media related to China. As Buttmunch noted that means a possible 1000% increase on items under $10 increasing to a possible 2000% increase in June.

Are they confused, or is this a tariff caveat on under-$800 items that the media hasn't reported on yet? Or is this new within the past few days?
 
Are there ways to use forwarding services or whatever to effectively re-ship packages from a different country?

I read a small article that Trump met with some big retailers today (Walmart, Target, Home Depot, etc), but the only thing that came out of it were some very similarly-worded "good meeting" type statements from the CEOs, so I'm not expecting much of value there right now.
 
captaincracker said:
If all we do is hate each other, there is no chance this country will survive.
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I'm a week late to this discussion, and I don't plan to get involved in it too much. But this bit right here? The hate started when your president mocked a disabled man during a rally, and mocked him to the point of performing an over-the-top physical impersonation of him. You all loved mocking the disabled man so much that you voted your president back into office for another term.

And you have the balls to sit there and say that "our side" is the one full of hate? Shame on you, sir.

I'm sure this thread has already been moderated, and warnings given to everyone, but I haven't gotten that far in it yet. I had to reply to the post I did, when I did. So if I'm breaking any new rules of the thread, my apologies.
 
EnigmaticClarity said:
Whichever is HIGHER? What the hell? On low-cost items this is astronomically higher than any previous tariff talk I've heard in the media related to China. As Buttmunch noted that means a possible 1000% increase on items under $10 increasing to a possible 2000% increase in June.

Are they confused, or is this a tariff caveat on under-$800 items that the media hasn't reported on yet? Or is this new within the past few days?
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Just realized that if this is true then Americans won't be buying from Aliexpress or Temu anymore. :oops:

My mom's a Trumper, and she buys a LOT of crafting supplies from Temu. If this ends up being true I'm curious to see what rationalization she comes up with for why it's fine. :rolleyes:
 
EnigmaticClarity said:
There are about to be if there aren't already.

I'm still confused about who's actually collecting these tariffs on under-$800 items.
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Post office will hold your package.

You know assuming they actually go into effect on May 2nd and there’s not a big freak out that causes a delay


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EnigmaticClarity said:
Just realized that if this is true then Americans won't be buying from Aliexpress or Temu anymore. :oops:

My mom's a Trumper, and she buys a LOT of crafting supplies from Temu. If this ends up being true I'm curious to see what rationalization she comes up with for why it's fine. :rolleyes:
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While I buy stuff from Aliexpress, we really should have camped down on it, shein, and TEMU earlier. They’ve been taking absolute advantage of de minimis and the postal union agreement and not really acting in the sport of why those agreements exists which wasn’t large scale commerce. We’ve basically been subsidizing the flooding of our market with cheap and IP fringing products while hurting our own companies and retailers. While I disagree with 145% across the board tariffs, this is a long needed action and hopefully things clear up in the next few months and a more reasonable duty is applied instead on items from these retailers.


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thewyldman said:
While I buy stuff from Aliexpress, we really should have camped down on it, shein, and TEMU earlier. They’ve been taking absolute advantage of de minimis and the postal union agreement and not really acting in the sport of why those agreements exists which wasn’t large scale commerce. We’ve basically been subsidizing the flooding of our market with cheap and IP fringing products while hurting our own companies and retailers. While I disagree with 145% across the board tariffs, this is a long needed action and hopefully things clear up in the next few months and a more reasonable duty is applied instead on items from these retailers.
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Preventing rampant Chinese infringement of IP is definitely a good reason to shut them down.

The part about large scale commerce for individuals makes a bit less sense. What's the problem aside from the bootlegs, and won't we still be able to buy from other countries? Granted there isn't any commerce site I'm aware of outside of China and America right now, but I'm sure there must be some that are due for a big boost if America effectively shuts down the Chinese commerce sites for their citizens.
 
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