Once again, import fees for USA buyers of Japanese equipment post August 29, 2025

[GregY]

May I please suggest adding the following:

6. Plus any tariff-/customs-related handling fees imposed by shipping companies, customs officials, and/or import agents.

Absolutely..... the handling fees are often substantial

 

[Milpool]

Also any penalties associated with the country of origin. The sender has to pay that upfront was well.

Duty, if necessary, is paid by the recipient on arrival. The new American tariffs must be paid before the item is accepted for being sent from the seller. As Milpool has said, this means that, in our case, Canada Post must, through its agents, take the tariff money before it accepts the package. If the US agent that receives the item judges the item is labelled wrongly then it refuses the package and the Canadian agent (Canada Post) must store it safely it until the problem is solved, which it has no facilities to do.
Therefor the tariff charge must be the highest possible to avoid refusal at the US border.
You don't seem to go beyond the dictionary definition of duty and tariffs without appreciating the practical difference, particularly since the US has decided, uniquely, that the tariffs must be collected in the sending country before the item enters the postal system, regardless of the duty rate. Nor do the documents you quote in any way address the Tariff rates which are independent of duty rates

 

[Alan Edward Klein]

Boy, it's absolute madness to post results from AI. At least as dopey as Wikipedia is there's some attempt at human editing (many times, most of the time) to slant the text to support a position.

I am only buying things from the big sellers who include the costs of these insane, shoot from the hip, tariffs in the sale price.

It's utter madness now. Probably will be for some time. Extraordinarily sad.

The AI topic really needs to be addressed in forum posts. Long gone are the days of PE who spoke with authority, he didn't go on Wikipedia to decide what to post.

We need a AI detector (or as we used to joke, a BS detector)

This is going to make the moderators duties all the more important.

All AI assisted content should be in RED

Before AI, posters used cherry-picked search results from Google. Not much different.

 

[mshchem]

Right now it's not too difficult to pick out the fly shit from the pepper, but not for long. As IT gets smarter and we get dumber, the results are clear.