Tracking toy tariffs

I had to wait until today to pick up my package at the PO. While waiting in line, the guy ahead of me needed stamps and a money order and the guy right behind me reeked of cigarettes. There was some comic relief when an older couple walked in. The guy had an absurdly over stuffed wallet, like George in that Seinfeld episode. I wanted to take a picture of it. Then the woman needed to buy a label from the little packing supply stand POs often have. She was miffed because the labels only come in two packs. Been there lady, Hasbro tried to get me to buy a Brood Wolverine. I said no way.

What's the deal with shipping companies like DHL making them prohibitive to ship from Japan, but there was no issue with EMS. Seems like the couriers become Mafia-like if you give them any opening.
 
For anyone interested in diving deep on the court cases re: tariffs, this podcast is a good listen. It's from yesterday, so should be mostly up-to-date: https://www.lawfaremedia.org/articl...inst-trump-s-ieepa-tariffs--with-peter-harrel

There were actually decisions in two separate tariff cases last week. The nationwide injunction from the US Court of International Trade (that was immediately paused by the appeals court pending further review) is the one that was mostly in the news. There was a decision in a second case, not in the CIT, that made fewer headlines because the injunction was only applied to the individual litigants. That case is potentially just as impactful as the other though, as this initial ruling basically finds that IEEPA contains no authority for the president to enact tariffs at all. Lots more litigation to come on it, of course.
 
the whole thing is a grift for him & his rich friends to profit off of
he claims it's all to bring back manufacturing and this is what happened last time...
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Seen on Reddit, right on schedule. The bulk of it will land by the end of this month.

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SalemCrow said:
That's not BS.

I was doing price changes earlier in the week and this TODDLER TOY increase is astounding.
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Bottom tag is the new price.
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That is a 216% increase. The only way I could see that being even remotely plausible is that this product got brought in during the 145% tariff period. Otherwise that is robbery hidden behind tariffs pure and simple. Unless that first price is a sale price and there is a higher "regular" retail price? I ask because the first price ends in 88 while the new price ends in 97 which I have seen at retailers up here (Canada) including Walmart. Then the difference may not be as high as 216%.
 
If it was a temp sale price there would be a smaller "was $*.**" under the price, or it would be on a red/white rollback tag.
 
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