@frank_sm was the customer/purchase thru Agon? If so please let this community know his user name.
How much will I now pay in duties to ship a stylus from Japan?
Anybody import a phono cartridge/stylus from Japan since the August 29 when the old $800 duty-free threshold ended? I am interested in importing a vintage stylus that costs about $200. Worried about how much I will have to pay. Do the mail carries charge the duty before delivery? How much should I expect to pay? Any tips and what to ask the Ebay seller?
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@frank_sm I assume that the customer paid for goods and then refused delivery. Why not just deduct your cost of the transaction from the refund owed? |
Bipod, why would tariffs cause shipping delays? Perhaps if importers (us) are unwilling or tardy in paying the tariff. In that case the goods are already in the US but delivery is held up pending payment. DHL threatens to return my car parts to seller after 5 days delinquency. But I do pay when asked and delivery is fast as ever. I think I saw an article in the Washington Post about goods stacking up at delivery points because some buyers are delinquent in fact. Since Jeff Bezos owns the WP, I am guessing that is his way of complaining that folks aren’t paying tariffs in many cases. But shipping per se is fast as ever. |
I can't say how much duty will be on a cartridge, but I just purchased a Luxman L-509Z on eBay from Japan. It was a brand-new unit and with taxes it cost me $7000. When it arrived in Los Angeles on Thursday I was hit with $1000 in tariffs! I was expecting something a little high, but not $1000. I still ended up with a unit selling in the USA for over $14,000 for $8000 but it did hurt a bit... |
Delays happen because packages under $800 used to come straight in, and now the carriers have to assess every package that comes in. They have to figure what the tariff is on every package, which depends on what country it originated in, not where it was shipped from. I bought something made in China from a Canadian company and I was charged the China tax. It is a monumental task for the carriers to deal with all of that. If you import a lot I think you will inevitably run into those type of delays. I also got hit with the DHL 5 day demand. I don't think they calculated it correctly but you have no time to dispute it since it is impossible to actually talk to anybody at DHL. I assume if they send it back, whoever shipped it has to pay to get it back, so some companies just refuse to ship anything to the US. Making America Great Again one package at a time.
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