Tariff Charges

The simple solution for Americans importing from Canadian businesses is to contact the business to see if their stuff complies with the USMCA.  They have either done the paperwork or they haven't.  

Canadians pay a sales tax on most purchases (not food) that is 5% for the feds and 7% (in BC) for the province.  Oftentimes I received parcels from outside the country without paying the taxes.  Occasionally they would charge them and I would pay at the P.O. when I picked up the parcel.   

What I've noticed recently is a large increase in shipping costs from Partzilla and Z1E.  No idea why the increase.

I ordered a pair of oem z1 mirrors from Japan for $145.60
15% of 145.60 is $21.84
DHL call today, they want $37.67
So DHL wants $21.84 tariff + $15.83 for the "privilege" of paying the $21.83 tariff.
The smoot hawley tariff is blamed for making the 1930's depression worse.

In 1978, the price of a hamburger at McDonald's was approximately $0.65 for a Big Mac, which included two all-beef patties and special sauce. Other burger prices during that time were around $0.30 for a medium Coca-Cola and $0.28 for a McDonald's hamburger. These prices reflect the affordability of fast food during the 1970s, making burgers a common and inexpensive meal option.
McDonalds medium fries in 1978 .26
McDonalds medium drink in 1978 .37

.65
.26
.37

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$1.28

In 1978 we went to a Chicago convention hall, possibly McCormick, I cannot remember what we went to see.
However I do remember lunch.
I got a hamburger,medium fries, medium drink.
What I got to the cashier she said $5.10
I said what.
How much is the hamburger?
How much are the fries?
How much is the drink?
Thats $5.10
Back home I can get this for $1.28
This is my town, out here you are an outsider, we charge whatever we want.
Does anyone ever come back?
I never did, a meal is probably $100 now.
Have not though about this for 40 years, today I did.

The problem is that if the courier has to administer the tariff somebody has to pay them for doing it (you)
the Spanish example I quoted earlier in the thread resulted in me making about half of what I expected and the recipient paid about 40% more than he expected!!!!!!

Seems to me how lopsided it has always been. 

73z1 wrote

So DHL wants $21.84 tariff + $15.83 for the "privilege" of paying the $21.83 tariff.


Some couriers will do that. UPS would charge me an automatic $30 Customs Clearance Fee on orders coming from Z1 Ent when they were in Rochester NY and Jeff would label the package "old motorcycle parts" so no import duty/tariff in Canada

I switched to Usps and Canada post . Slower but cheaper

SWest wrote:

Seems to me how lopsided it has always been. 

 

And yet here we are, all riding Japanese bikes when I guess we should have been riding Harleys all along.

82KZ305Belt wrote:

SWest wrote:

Seems to me how lopsided it has always been. 

 

And yet here we are, all riding Japanese bikes when I guess we should have been riding Harleys all along.

NOPE 

82KZ305Belt wrote:

SWest wrote:

Seems to me how lopsided it has always been. 

 

And yet here we are, all riding Japanese bikes when I guess we should have been riding Harleys all along.

You may be too young to remember, but back in the mid 1980's there was a tariff added to motorcycles over 700cc.  The Japanese OEM response: build 700cc bikes.  I owned one such bike, a 1987 Honda VFR700.  Kawasaki reduced displacement on several different models from 750 to 700.  Fortunately, this only lasted a year or two, before things got back to normal.  It would be interesting to know if Harley sales increased during this period, but it seems unlikely.  

The tariff added to the imported Japanese bikes in the mid-eighties, was in response to H.D whining that the Japanese were flooding the market with cheap bikes. The tariff actually helped the Lincoln Plant as we built a higher percentage of the +700cc bikes.

Mike

SWest wrote:

82KZ305Belt wrote:

SWest wrote:

Seems to me how lopsided it has always been. 

 

And yet here we are, all riding Japanese bikes when I guess we should have been riding Harleys all along.

NOPE 

 

I think you are missing the point of the tariffs then.

Nessism wrote:

You may be too young to remember, but back in the mid 1980's there was a tariff added to motorcycles over 700cc.  The Japanese OEM response: build 700cc bikes.  I owned one such bike, a 1987 Honda VFR700.  Kawasaki reduced displacement on several different models from 750 to 700.  Fortunately, this only lasted a year or two, before things got back to normal.  It would be interesting to know if Harley sales increased during this period, but it seems unlikely.  
 

I wish I was too young, but I just wasn't paying attention to motorcycles or economics back then. I was busy lusting for the increasingly attractive and efficient pieces of automotive engineering that Japan was starting to send to the US, instead of the junky clunky US cars of that time. While I would have preferred to buy an American made product, it didn't make any sense to buy an inferior product.


 

82KZ305Belt wrote:

SWest wrote:

82KZ305Belt wrote:

SWest wrote:

Seems to me how lopsided it has always been. 

 

And yet here we are, all riding Japanese bikes when I guess we should have been riding Harleys all along.

NOPE 

 

I think you are missing the point of the tariffs then.

Nessism wrote:

You may be too young to remember, but back in the mid 1980's there was a tariff added to motorcycles over 700cc.  The Japanese OEM response: build 700cc bikes.  I owned one such bike, a 1987 Honda VFR700.  Kawasaki reduced displacement on several different models from 750 to 700.  Fortunately, this only lasted a year or two, before things got back to normal.  It would be interesting to know if Harley sales increased during this period, but it seems unlikely.  

 

I wish I was too young, but I just wasn't paying attention to motorcycles or economics back then. I was busy lusting for the increasingly attractive and efficient pieces of automotive engineering that Japan was starting to send to the US, instead of the junky clunky US cars of that time. While I would have preferred to buy an American made product, it didn't make any sense to buy an inferior product.





 

What jap car was that > I know its off topic but cant think of any jap cars anyone lusting for lol.