Can't the sales tax and tariffs and import duties be paid to an international shipper like DHL along with their shipping charges? Then DHL pays the government for the purchaser? Just like ebay or Paypal would do?
I believe when B&H in the USA ships internationally, they collect all foreign charges and reimbursed the foreign governments. These costs are included of course, in their total selling price. So what do you do in Canada if you buy something directly from the original manufacturer or store that doesn't handle these charges? How do you get the package in Alberta?
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Can't the sales tax and tariffs and import duties be paid to an international shipper like DHL along with their shipping charges? Then DHL pays the government for the purchaser? Just like ebay or Paypal would do?
That's correct in my experience, and is the reason why I (living in the EU) nearly always buy from individual sellers within the EU ... no additional taxes to pay. (Like buying from within the US if you live in the US, it's very straightforward.)
When I buy stuff from outside the EU, I tend to use eBay, AliExpress or Amazon, all of whom handle the Value Added Tax (VAT) without charging extra fees. We pay VAT on almost everything (except food, books, children's clothes) within the EU, and "everything" also includes things we import from outside the EU ... there is no escaping VAT and for me (Ireland) its a whopping 23%.
If I buy from an individual seller outside the EU, the courier or postal service collects the VAT and charges an extra fee for doing so. But a bigger problem, especially when the seller is not used to international norms (i.e. many US sellers!), is that the seller fails to put the correct HS/Taric code on the package, so it gets returned to the seller by customs. Sellers can't just write "camera" on the customs form, they must put a HS/Taric code. I'd say the VAT charges are the lessor of the two issues, getting the documentation right is the bigger issue.
How does eBay know what the correct HS/Taric code is if the seller just puts "camera" on the box or if the seller gives them the wrong code?
Alan - there is no light at the end of the tunnel - because the whole damn tunnel is so arbitrarily twisted and contorted that nobody even knows how long it is, or how long it will get. Supply chains getting disrupted for even a few months can send thousands businesses in many countries into the ditch, even worse than what happened during the pandemic. Just wait until you need a car repair and all the already obscenely expensive parts cost twice as much. I've gotta pick up another doorknob and some grab bars for the bathroom remodel before the price doubles. Plywood is already up 400% from what it was when I retired. With a tariff war with China, what was a $15 sheet of underlayment or roofing ply not long ago is apt to be a $100 sheet quite soon. So much for "affordable housing" or even realistic recovery from a firestorm, flood, or tornado. The sledgehammer has just barely begun to come down hard.
Building new big factories here can take a decade or longer, and cost billions of dollars apiece, including finding and training suitable labor. Entire infrastructures have to be rebuilt; and that takes a lot of time, as well the kind of sheer risk which many investors simply aren't willing to take on in such an unpredictable financial environment. The one significant variable certain economics geeks don't know how to factor into their blackboard equations is common sense.
I wonder what he has to offer DT that also gives the U.K. a reasonable deal?Also worth noting that Starmer says he is working to negotiate to "remove or reduce" the US tariffs and that such a deal "is already within reach, possibly within weeks."
A little history from the Canadian perspective.I wonder what he has to offer DT that also gives the U.K. a reasonable deal?
pentaxuser
A little history from the Canadian perspective.
We had a decades long free trade agreement with the US which DT renegotiated in his first term. This time around he has ripped up that deal claiming we are ripping the US off. It's his own deal that he's complaining about.
How can any country trust any agreement with a trading partner like that?
I look at all this like..you/I have a car..petrol price keeps going up..you/I still buy and drive.
Same will be with photographic supplies...
A little history from the Canadian perspective.
We had a decades long free trade agreement with the US which DT renegotiated in his first term. This time around he has ripped up that deal claiming we are ripping the US off. It's his own deal that he's complaining about.
How can any country trust any agreement with a trading partner like that?
it's not exactly the same. Film paper chemistry are produced in many countries. Do you go to the gas station where the people are friendly, the bathrooms are clean and you can put air in your tires for free? ... or the run down one that looks more like a crack house ?
Yes; my bringing Tri-X into the conversation was to say that B&H raised prices in a way that didn't match the tariffs but used them as an implicit excuse for the raises, since Tri-X would theoretically not be affected by the tariffs but could be raised the same amount as its main competitor, HP5, in the pursuit of higher profits.that may be so, but Tri-X comes from a U.S. company. Also the GBP has recently strengthened against the USD....that affects the price of goods originating in the UK.
Thanks and I appreciate the Canadian perspective based on recent history but I am still genuinely curious as to what Starmer might have in his negotiating bag that would give DT a reason to lower or rescind his 10% tariff and then want to stick to that agreement
I was hoping that as dhkirby sounded quite optimistic of an agreement he might say what he thought it may be
pentaxuser
Yes; my bringing Tri-X into the conversation was to say that B&H raised prices in a way that didn't match the tariffs but used them as an implicit excuse for the raises, since Tri-X would theoretically not be affected by the tariffs but could be raised the same amount as its main competitor, HP5, in the pursuit of higher profits.
From the Washington Post (same article I quoted earlier): "The British have already offered to cut tariffs on imported American beef and fish, according to two people familiar with the negotiations between London and Washington, who spoke on the condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of the discussions. And Starmer's government is ready to put an even bigger prize on the table: lowering British taxes paid by big American tech companies..."
Other things I've read suggest the auto industry is also key to the negotiations, and there seem to be things the US wants that the UK is unwilling to give at present, such as changes to import restrictions on some US agriculture.
As an American I also just want to say that I have much love for our British and Canadian friends. I hope this gets resolved for many ireasons, but the one that's relevant to this forum is that I see Kodak's B&W films as being inferior to Harman's, with the exception of Tri-X, and would prefer to have your films in my cameras as fast and as cheaply as possible.
Hopefully I kept that all on topic.
We will probably know only after the deals are done, and there may be little assurance that any deal will stick.
How does eBay know what the correct HS/Taric code is if the seller just puts "camera" on the box or if the seller gives them the wrong code?
I will drive much less.I look at all this like..you/I have a car..petrol price keeps going up..you/I still buy and drive.
Same will be with photographic supplies...
I look at all this like..you/I have a car..petrol price keeps going up..you/I still buy and drive.
Same will be with photographic supplies...
Definitely the clean bathroom and free air, its closer to home so i save on gas.it's not exactly the same. Film, paper & chemistry are produced in many countries. There are choices. Do you go to the gas station where the people are friendly, the bathrooms are clean and you can put air in your tires for free? ... or the rundown one that looks more like a crack house ?
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