Absolutely..... the handling fees are often substantial
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.
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
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
I recently bought some used Arca Swiss parts. Despite the name, Arca Swiss has been manufactured in France since 1999. Fron my research France (or more specifically, the EU) has a tariff rate of 15% when imported to the USA. Items made in Switzerland seems to have a 39% tariff when imported to the USA. There does seem to be a deal in the works to drop the rate of Swiss goods to 15% but I can't find any confirmation that that drop has actually happened.
I don't know how accurate it is but this page summarizes, coutry by country the USA tariff rates:
Trump 2.0 tariff tracker
According to President Trump, “Tariff is the most beautiful word in the dictionary.” Throughout his presidential campaign, Trump promised to use tariffswww.tradecomplianceresourcehub.com
My biggest frustration is simply that there is not a simple clear page from the US federal government, explaining clearly what to expect. My read on how the above link specifies the EU rate is that the 15% is a baseline, but if the HTS rate is higher than the EU base rate, they are not added together. in other words if the HTS rate is 30%, the total tariff will still be 30%, but if the HTS rate is 10%, the total tariff will be 15%.
We'll see when the Arca parts arrive.
My biggest frustration is simply that there is not a simple clear page from the US federal government, explaining clearly what to expect.
To summarize again:
EU->US or Japan->US country rates are currently 15%
Most camera rates are 0% but it could be something like 20% for things related to cameras, like camera bags (carefully check the Harmonized Tariff Schedule for your item)
You're likely to pay a 3-10% fee to the carrier
Add them together and budget something like 25% for a camera and 35% for a camera bag. 15% will be your best case scenario.
Or just buy the item "duties included".
I don't have enough details yet, but I just got a bill from UPS for my "import": $85.76. The purchase price was $500. The items were Arca-Swiss parts. I checked ahead of time, and despite the name "Arca-Swiss" their camera parts have been made in France, i.e. EU, since 1999. I researched and EU showed a 15% reciprocal tariff and Switzerland showed a 39% tariff. So I asked Kumar to make sure that the item showed an origin of EU. (To be clear this was accurate and appropriate. If I had asked him to show Japan--where the items were shipped from--as the country of origin, that would have been fraud since country of manufacture is where the tariff rate should reflect.)
The breakdown showed $68.76 for the tariff, and $17 for the UPS borkerage fee. $68.76 / $500 = 13.752%. I don't know the HSTS code used--hopefully when it is delivered I'll be able to see the import paperwork for more details, and I'll report these. So its not clear why that specific percentage?
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