More on US delivery issues due to tariffs.

Yikes. A friend had some meds being shipped from Canada to Nevada that were confiscated. We assumed it was because the package was meds, but maybe it was also the tariff.

Has anyone in the US ordered something recently from Brooklin?  I was wondering if they might be having similar problems.

@paul-rouffa Why somebody living in Nevada would buy and import meds from Canada? This is obvious this brings red flags.

@ed-davis My understanding is everything from UK is 10% tariff and 25% from Canada. I recently bought a Canadian product through a US distributor. I didn't saw a price increase but i suspect the next purchase will be raised when new inventory will come in.

I just received a package from Brooklin this week. No charge, no problem, and...it got here in two days. 

To date my buying and selling involving USA individuals has had zero tariff issues.

As a USPS carrier I collected Customs fees on foreign parcels many times. It involved a different set of papers but I retired in 1999 so I’m sure everything has changed since then.

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@paul-rouffa Why somebody living in Nevada would buy and import meds from Canada? This is obvious this brings red flags.

So far, I've received models from Canada, Germany, Netherlands, United Kingdom, China, Spain & France. I've not paid any additional fees for any of them. 

I've been downsizing my collection here in Canada and selling to US customers via Ebay. Like Albert, I have had one incident where the model was returned to me by US Customs with no explanation from USPS or Canada Post. I had to absorb the shipping cost and resend it. I also had one instance where I sent a parcel by UPS and US customs assessed a tariff of $75 on a $65 model and the US customer refused delivery. The model never did get back to me and UPS can't tell me where it is. I have heard rumour that UPS has warehouses set up to store these parcels which are later sold off to the public.

@kenspear I hope that a certain shipment soon to be dispatched to NY doesn't encounter any problems 😉

Barry: In all fairness, the example that I gave probably represents less than 2% of all transactions that I have done. The remaining 98% have all gone smoothly with no delays or additional costs. The incident involving the tariff of $75 makes no sense to me as it was not even a Chinese made model and would not have carried a tariff of over 100%. I think that someone just didn't understand the  policies or was having a bad day.

The reason for this inconsistency is that they whole import system is in complete and utter chaos. Nobody knows how to deal with this massive system upset. The Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the US has been revised 15 times so far this year. Revision #15 is dated June 2025, AND has an amendment (696 pages).

And there is a completely separate document on China Tariffs (257 pages) which describes additional duties on products of China under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) dated March 6, 2025. Does the China Tariffs document from March 2025 supersede the June 2025 amendment? Who knows.

Adding to the confusion for us, the China Tariffs document inexplicably omits Chapter 95 which is where scale models are categorized (9503.00.00). Also note that the latest revision of the HTS still shows this category as being "tariff free", which is incorrect.

Remember that tariffs are based on Country of Origin (COO). If an item is made in China, it does not matter where it is shipped to you from - it is supposed to have a tariff tacked onto it. Anyone that has not had to pay a tariff has benefitted from the chaos and uncertainty. You may or may not be so lucky on the next Chinese-made item that you buy.

@daveg 

Thanks for the explanation. I suspected there could be a lot of confusion about implementing this.