I heard that since the lower 48 is not directly connected to Alaska, that Canada has turned the major highway into a $35CA or $40CA tollway for vehicle transporting goods to or from Alaska. Does anyone have more information on that?
I heard that since the lower 48 is not directly connected to Alaska, that Canada has turned the major highway into a $35CA or $40CA tollway for vehicle transporting goods to or from Alaska. Does anyone have more information on that?
But is it a name change or is it an entirely different entity? Tariff's aren't levied aganst a patch of dirt, but against a political entity. A friend of mine was selling some mosaics that were Roman from the 2nd century AD. Should they be taxed as if they came from Italy? What if they were made in the Roman province of Britannia?
A toll has been considered, but $35 - $40 would probably be the last thing to worry about when it comes to expense: https://www.canada.ca/en/public-ser...ldings/bridges-docks-dams/alaska-highway.html
A toll has been considered, but $35 - $40 would probably be the last thing to worry about when it comes to expense: https://www.canada.ca/en/public-ser...ldings/bridges-docks-dams/alaska-highway.html
Today I heard that the toll for all trucks is 25% of the value each way. That is raising the costs of all goods in Alaska. The Alaska governor concerned about the rising costs and supply line problems.
Might be time for the implementation of the Anchorage Airlift. It worked in Berlin in '48
pentaxuser
US tariffs on Canadian goods doesn't affect US goods like Kodak film purchased by Canadians. Likewise, what Americans are buying Canadian photo products?
Might be time for the implementation of the Anchorage Airlift. It worked in Berlin in '48
pentaxuser
Reciprocal tariffs do though.
Entirely unrelated to tariffs or the subject matter of this thread. Please get back ontopic.Also, in Europe, don't they add VAT taxes as well to imported photo products?
Tjhat would raise the prices both ways to and from the lower 48 even more than the 25% tariff toll. There is not easy way out of this other than rescinding all the tariff.s
But that's on the importing country, in this case, Canada. They don't have to add reciprocal tariffs and make their citizens pay more for film. After all, that's what the US is doing mainly. We're adding tariffs to reciprocate against other countries, so now everyone is doing it. What is Canada's tariffs on US-made film?
There’s nothing better than good old-fashioned politics…
You took the bait, Matt.
For many years prior to now, due to the existing agreement between our countries, there were no duties (or more accurately, zero rated duties) charged as a result of the applicable tariff provisions on most things imported either way between the USA and Canada. There were some very narrow exceptions for very specific marketplaces - but certainly not anything photographic.
The US alleged some sort of weird unfairness about what the results of this meant, so some so-called "reciprocal" duties were imposed by the US against Canadian goods.
In response to which Canada announced new duties against US goods to actually reciprocate for the breach of the pre-existing agreement between the countries - an agreement that was actually put in place by your current President's people during his previous time around..
FWIW, prior to all this, and indeed still continuing now, us Canadians spend, on a per capita basis, far, far, far more for US goods and, in particular, services, than people in the US spend on things that originate in Canada.
I can assure you that it pains me greatly to refuse to buy Kodak branded film, but this kerfuffle is reason enough to make that tough choice.
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