Tracking toy tariffs

hmmberto said:
I know this is small potatoes and no one will care, but
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One of you needs to check their spelling :D

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Ashtalon said:
I ordered the new Mcfarlane Silver Age Superman from a Canadian shop, Toy Snowman. Had ShopPay dollars (guess you accumulate them) which brought the figure down to $23 shipped. So I guess it was cheaper than getting it here in the US. Was curious how customs, if any, would happen. Ordered it 5/2. Went through customs on 5/3. And was delivered today 5/8. Not sure when de minimas was supposed to end or when tariffs were supposed to start, but I ddn't have to pay anything extra. Not sure if it was too small to bother.
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De minimis only ended for China. It still applies to every other country.
 
RicksNerdLife said:
Please don't harangue some poor customer service agent who has no power to do anything about this. They're just doing their job, and trust me, as someone who has worked in places that several times have had people that wanted me to pass something along to our CEO-- it doesn't happen. You're just giving some lowly, powerless, likely already miserable employee grief.
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Of course I wouldn't do that. It's not difficult to give negative feedback while still being polite.
 
Damien said:
I think to square the math you have to assume that shipping is not considered part of an item's manufacture cost (for tariff purposes) but is part of Hasbro's cost for profit analysis.

Assume a $10 figure costs $2 to be on the boat, including container rental or whatever. Now the -cost- is $12, which means Hasbro wants to charge a minimum of $17, which means the retailer is going to charge around $23-25 - depending on roundings throughout the process.
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That makes sense. I really would love to know what the actual costs and margins on these things are.
 
He's literally negotiating with himself.

I do think the super high tariffs on China won't stick but probably end up at least somewhat higher than other countries. The question is how companies handle this for pricing. Do the ones that have tariff surcharges lower the surcharges but not get rid of them completely? Do the companies that raised prices overall lower them? I would assume that at least some companies won't lower prices, or at least not to what they are. This is all very dangerous for inflation. US consumers in general are expecting higher prices, and now companies have an in to deliver on the expectation regardless of where the long-term tariffs actually shake out.
 
NORM said:
No argument that Jim Lee was one of the greats, and WildCATs was peak Jim Lee. But he was not a celebrity likeness guy.
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He did his level best on that single panel. In later issues alien- body- snatched Quayle gets into more action scenes and Lee goes with much more Lee- like stylization.
 
gpmartin414 said:
He's literally negotiating with himself.

I do think the super high tariffs on China won't stick but probably end up at least somewhat higher than other countries. The question is how companies handle this for pricing. Do the ones that have tariff surcharges lower the surcharges but not get rid of them completely? Do the companies that raised prices overall lower them? I would assume that at least some companies won't lower prices, or at least not to what they are. This is all very dangerous for inflation. US consumers in general are expecting higher prices, and now companies have an in to deliver on the expectation regardless of where the long-term tariffs actually shake out.
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That's what everyone is basically waiting to see. A company like Hasbro could raise prices and leave them there saying they need to recoup all of the money they lost due to tariffs. The important thing to probably look at and consider is to see if Hasbro and others are raising prices for all territories, or just the US. If just the US, then I think there's a chance they go back down. If their sales remain where they want them with inflated prices though then that could easily be seen by an executive as the market telling them they're willing to pay this much for their product.

Misfits figs hit my PoL today - no tariff charge. I'm thinking the SHF Vegeta I have on preorder will be my first tariff'd item. Unless they hold off on shipping them until things are better. It sounds like a lot of retailers are basically holding off on importing the pricier stuff (even though that Vegeta is cheap by SHF standards) until things come down. The guy who runs Nerdzoic said he's sitting on some product in China (specifically mentioned JoyToy) because he can't make any money on it right now with the tariffs. I bet the big companies are going to sit on product as well which means it's probably going to be slim pickings this summer.
 
gpmartin414 said:
The question is how companies handle this for pricing. Do the ones that have tariff surcharges lower the surcharges but not get rid of them completely? Do the companies that raised prices overall lower them? I would assume that at least some companies won't lower prices, or at least not to what they are. This is all very dangerous for inflation. US consumers in general are expecting higher prices, and now companies have an in to deliver on the expectation regardless of where the long-term tariffs actually shake out.
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This is what happens when you put someone too stupid to understand logistics in charge of the biggest economy in history. He thinks he presses "send" on a Truth Social post and everything falls in line accordingly. In a globalist society, it turns out there are consequences. It creates questions from top to bottom and no one has a good answer.
 
On the trade deal with the UK:

On Thursday, Trump told reporters he gave them preferential treatment, because he personally was partial to Britain’s ultra-luxury car brands like McLaren, Bentley and Rolls-Royce, the latter of whom he readily accepted would not set up a dedicated factory in the United States.

“That’s really handmade stuff. They’ve been doing it for a long time in the same location,” he remarked. “So I said, ‘yeah, that would be good. Let’s help them out with that one’.”
 
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