How much will I now pay in duties to ship a stylus from Japan?

FedEx Invoice billed: 

Disbursement Fee ......... $4.50

Customs Duty .................$16.35 (on net cost of cartridge Y15,600 ($109.) (Japan is 15%)

as I said, there is no duty collected on the various fees and shipping costs.

https://www.cbp.gov/travel/international-visitors/know-before-you-visit/customs-duty-information

A lot of sellers are equally confused. But the buyer pays it. This is a form of tax by the US government and it is not the responsibility of a Japanese proprietor to figure out, and to pay, US taxes. Similarly, it is not the responsibility of shipping agents or companies. Some have opted to not ship any US shipments at all, in response to the tariffs, depending on the country. but it seems to be settling into a pattern of an added cost forwarded onto the buyer by the shipper. That is what happened to me with the shipment from Poland and I owed money to FedEx for it.

for a purchase of mine from Singapore (Laiv Harmony equipment) The inventory was already in the US in a distribution warehouse before the tires were implemented, so I did not need to pay for it. Depending on the company you’re dealing with that may be also there to work for your advantage.

Sigh.  Speech to text…  I hope you are all good at deciphering what people “really mean” in this modern age. 

Chaos is the word these days.  Hard to know anything for sure anymore until it affects you.    Nobody I know is calling things great.  I probably just need to mingle with more oligarch types, if they would even have me?  Rumor is they have the best hifis as well to go along with the yachts, etc.  Call it the very high end which is way better than merely being high.

Try buying American. I've spent over 15m on eBay in the past few years but never trusted oversea's sellers with anything of consequence except maybe a c.d. Just me. I would imagine a nightmare if something was not as advertised or broke and had to be returned.