TL;DR I didn’t make it in time. Fuck you Trump!
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It’s exciting time for smugglers. Ever wanted to be one now is prime business hours. Go make Han Solo proud like my mother used to in iron curtain 80s
Trump is a Russian asset. America will fall within a year. Russia and China will expand their territories freely until Europe is ready to arm itself.
All the business owners voted trump and now they’re crying about free trade 😂
I hope they all fucking starve. I mean it won’t happen but I can dream.
…so you ordered this in July when he announced the tariffs?
I bought a bunch of electronics from China back in December. No regrets.
I’m worried their networking equipment could be compromised, worse than “American” equipment.
I cant wait until the European/Mexican/Chinese parts that I order from the USA that always arrive with a customs declaration of Origin:USA … starts biting me in the ass because of their ignorance and Canadian Customs tries to hit me with Tariffs that shouldnt apply.
the better option is to just stop doing business with American shops. and thats what I’ve chosen, the USPS and Canadian Postal service are both such shitholes, that I have legitimatley recieved stuff from the UK, Poland and Denmark faster than I’ve recieved stuff fom Illinois and Iowa , in the orders I’ve made this year. For small things too.
Any time an eligible item crosses the US / Canada border, a 25% tariff is applied. This is how the US does it, so this is what the Canadian government is copying.
This is terrible for auto manufacturing, where various parts cross the border multiple times between raw materials, loose parts, assembled parts and assembled vehicle. Every time those parts or materials cross either border, it gets tariffed 25%.
I believe if your item comes from the US, lands in another country, gets re-labeled and then enters Canada, it won’t be tariffed, but don’t quote me on that.
How do they define “an item”, because couldn’t a bunch of people get together and order stuff from outside the US and then just have it all delivered in one big box? Are they going to open every box to make sure that there’s only one item in it, how do they know it’s not just one big item?
For example if I order one washing machine then that’s one item but if I order various parts for a washing machine then that’s lots of items, but technically the washing machine already contained those parts that were considered one item
The tax is on the value , if you declare your washing machine has value of 1$ then the tax would be labelled accordingly but that would be a fraud.
Hence if you order parts of the washing machines you would have to declare value of the individual part and it would be taxed accordingly.
I believe it has to be declared on the packing manifest, but it relies on the expeditor being truthful. That’s my understanding of it.
I don’t think it’s about the place of manufacture, but rather the place of origin. A lot of items are manufactured all over the place.
Hold off. Kraznov is getting so much shit he is going to walk it back, so he says. Can’t trust him any more than a rabid bat though.
It is inane that one of the options is “just hold on for a few days and see what happens” and that it is a viable option at all. Government is in shambles.
There’s only one thing businesses hate more than tariffs and that’s uncertainty. They would be happier with the tariffs being definite, than this maybe existing and maybe not existing on a almost daily basis.
Because even if he gets rid of the tariffs, he’ll try this again in a few weeks once he’s forgotten about all of the push back and has randomly decided that Canada is still shipping drugs into the US. Because fentanyl can’t be made in the US, everyone knows that.
He’s stupid but not that stupid. He doesn’t even care where any drug originated from. He surely slotted “hot-button drug name” into place and blamed Canada because he wants to put pressure on them.
One of the few things in his entire life Donald has learned and been able to apply is the US Republican playbook for blame-throwing.
He’s stupid but not that stupid
I’m very certain he is that stupid
This is 100% because of Trump’s flip flop ways. Fuck this guy and his MAGA cult.
#trumptarrifs
C’mon, it writes itself.
From the covfefe guy I wouldn’t be surprised if he misspelled himself.
#TrumpTardifs
#TrumpTardigrades
They will finally inherit the earth once humanity and 3/4 of animals burn away.
And I shall become Queen
Naw…
#TardisTrump
Send him back to the 40’s where he belongs. Preferably to the front lines of Leningrad in 1941. Let’s see how much he likes Russians and fascists then…
It writes itself? Is that why it has a spelling error?
Good thing there isn’t hundreds is miles of unprotected border to snuggle across.
Question: what would happen if lots of people swarmed right next to the border without actually crossing?
We’d have to snuggle with our fellow Americans. That would be weird.
Hmmm… sounds like I need to be spending more time at the border. Question: do we get to choose who we snuggle with or is it like a first come first served situation
I will finally get to snuggle with my girlfriend in Canada!
I hate to sound like I’m attacking OP, but unprotected border snuggles are a risky behavior. Please consider having protected border snuggles instead. It feels the exact same, I promise.
You get to pick, but of course it needs to be consensual. But Canadians are very friendly and free with their hugs.
Hmmm… sounds like I need to be spending more time at the border. Question: do we get to choose who we snuggle with or is it like a first come first served situation
That’s a lot of snuggling
Quite a bit. With increasing prices in the US, lots of people sneak up north with snuggling in mind. You do need to be careful at the official border crossings though. Snuggling is generally frowned upon.
Its a little bit of sexy snuggling that could happen anywhere and any time!
Props to whoever this company is. This is one of the best bits of customer service I’ve seen in years.
This should be the standard lol. Who you dealing with, the mafia?
Pretty standard business practice for the U.S. is “The Customer Can Always Get Fucked.” There’s a lot of money that’s basically just been stolen from me because I got tired with fighting the company to just ship me the thing I paid for, and I either bought the thing somewhere else or decided I didn’t want it anymore. Most companies don’t even actually have customer service, just chatbots or outsourced chumps who only seem to exist for Americans to yell at, because they have no authority to do, view, or fix anything.
I mean technically it’s not the company’s responsibility. If you’ve ordered something and they’ve sent it in a reasonable time frame and it just gets charged extra on entry. It’s not the company putting the price up, it’s your own government, so you don’t really have a recourse.
I may don’t know how the law works but I believe (at least in my vountry) if you agree on thr conditions you can’t pull a Darth Vader and alter the conditions after signing/ordering and paying.
Now if there is a clause that states otherwise this may change.
But I agree, at least they are open and upfront with it.
Doesn’t matter on their end. If they wanted to they could ship it and let it get held up by customs with a demand to pay the tariff to release it.
The doctrine is called force majeure. Most contracts have a force majeure clause.
If an external factor makes a contract impossible as agreed, the contract can be made void under force majeure. This is very common, and suddenly applied tariffs would likely be covered by a force majeure clause because neither party were responsible for them.
They are not changing anything. They are warning the customer import charges wil incur if the purchase proceeds. They gain nothing and stand to lose a sale.
Import duties are not always part of the agreement.
They didn’t change the rules, there is now a charge by the government on it getting delivered, not by the company.
I would change “not always” to “practically never”. Every e-commerce site I have ever used warns you that you are responsible for import duties if shipped internationally.
Completely agree, I was trying to avoid the “well actually” response.
I’ve had a number of items get held by FedEx (or whoever) because of import duties over the years and I’ve had to pay the delivery company to get it released.
This is a well worn path, and kudos to this one to warn you that new tarrifs are in place, the customer would be subject to them, and giving them an option to decline it.
Solid boundaries, clearly communicated. Giving the customer a choice without hurting their own bottom line. I agree. Excellent handling of the situation.
Does anyone actually know why we are putting tariffs on Canadian goods?
It’s a tax increase which can be (and is being) mis-portrayed as something that the seller pays, when in fact it’s the buyer that pays it.
In practice what Trump did was institute the equivalent of an additional 25% sales tax for all Americans when they buy goods manufactured in Canada or Mexico, but because this tax is usually payed by companies (which do most of the importing) and most people aren’t at all familiar with how Import/Export works, he seems to be getting away with portraying it as a tax on Canada and Mexico.
(The concern of those countries is not that they pay more - which they don’t - it’s that a selective “sales tax” that only applies to products they export to the US makes their products less competitive on price when sold in the US, hence they will sell less which is bad for their companies)
I’ve seen some theories around that the purpose of this significant increase in tax is to pay for the tax cuts for the wealthy that the Republicans are passing.
Taxes applied to companies get passed to consumers
Good luck getting the Trumpettes to understand that…
Andrew Jackson famously paid off the national debt through a massive tariff that almost started the Civil War 20 years early
Trump administration says fentanyl though very little moves across the Canadian border. They’re using it to declare a national emergency and therefore bypass Congress.
From Canada’s perspective it’s to weaken Canada’s perspective it’s to weaken the Canadian economy so that it’s easier to annex.
Because Trump is a Russian asset intent on causing as much destruction to the USA as he can.
Because Trump has a toddler’s level of understanding of how international trade works, along with a toddler’s tendency to throw tantrums when challenged.
Does anyone actually know why we are putting tariffs on Canadian goods?
I think his objective is to try and damage Canada’s economy, but I’m not sure exactly why. Apparently he really is serious about the “51st state” thing along with the Greenland and Panama thing. He’s just that megalomaniacal. He wants to be like Putin.
Because trump is a fucking brain-dead narcissistic man-child moron? What more explanation are you expecting?
Align the US with other partners
Trump says it’s because China, Canada, and Mexico are bringing fentanyl in.
He just changed his reason to “Make America rich again”. Apparently he forgot about the drugs thing.
https://www.independent.co.uk/tv/news/trump-order-tariffs-steel-aluminum-b2695793.html
My theory is that they want to control the North-West Passage, which due to climate change will become a high traffic trade route. Something currently dominated by Panama (which he also wants). So they’re putting pressure on Canada now.
Greenland is in a similar situation but I think there may also be oil and such there as well.
Because Trump thinks he’s Putin and wants to annex Canada.
After the November election we bought a fridge early we were mildly interested in that is manufactured in Mexico. It seemed conspiratorial to consider possible tariffs in the purchase equation considering decades of free trade with NAFTA and later USMCA.
Yet here we are and we’re very glad we bought the multi-thousand dollar fridge pre-trump-tarrifs.
In November, the boyfriend and I went ahead and pulled the trigger on replacing both of our aging laptops (even though it was a bit earlier than I’d like- I just play a lot of Stardew Valley, I don’t really need anything fancy).
Thank goodness for that. I’m sad other people won’t have been as fortunate.
Our fridge is 12 years old and we’re just hoping it keeps chugging on 🥲 Four more years!
Yeah, my car shit the bed right before the election and I had to get a new one.
Looking back, I’m glad I got it when I did. It was manufactured in Mexico, like most cars in America. If my old car had lasted 6 more months, I might have ended up paying 25% more for what I’m driving now.
I got my Kobo eReader literally days ago, phew
This will definitely affects every American, every Canadian, and all citizens and residents of any country targeted by a trade war.
Not sure how much it will affect China tbh, they can self sustain. The manufacturers and exporters though, they won’t be happy about it.
Yeah. We don’t know how it will affect China. But some people have calculated how much it will affect US people
Trump’s taxes on imports (tariffs) from Canada, Mexico, and China will cost people in the United States somewhere around $260 billion a year or around $2,000 a household.
Here is an article about it:
Trump Set to Whack US Working Class With Historic $2,000 Tax Hike
Many Americans do not care. Brains have been rotted by their social media and “anti-woke” identity politics so critical thinking is waning. They’ll pay more and find a way to not blame it on Trump.
America as a positive cultural force in the world is on its dying breaths. It was a good run. The rest of the world should be looking at moving forward while leaving America and the crypto, AI, and social networking dystopia it seems obsessed with creating behind.
The rest of the world should be emphasizing divestment in the US and, overall, leaving America behind at this critical juncture.
