Well… I doubt I’m the first person here to experience this, but I definitely won’t be the last.
It was naive of me to think these wouldn’t effect me. I honestly hadn’t thought twice about the tariffs.
I purchased this beautiful card right here for a great price on auction and ended up paying more than I would have liked for the card.
Total cost was $110 USD + $25 USD shipping + $54 USD in import costs and fees.
That means 71% of the cost I paid was in shipping and fees! Woohoo!
Am I the idiot ?
Unfortunately, I won’t be buying from the US anymore.
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Fun fact: The US exports most of our wood to Canada and Mexico because we get more for it out of country. Then we import it right back because we don’t have any for ourselves. Consumers are left footing the bill with tariffs at the point of sale.
A lot of importing and exporting is currently as big a grift as you just experienced and is about to get a microscope on it.
Usually import tax is 5% GST + PST or HST depending on province, so usually 10-15%. I haven’t had to pay duties on top of this amount before, but it does happen.
The Canadian government doesn’t have collectibles listed on the items tariffed, but it looks like CBSA just blanket applies them to everything now. Hearing lots of people getting unfortunate import bills…
If you live near the border, drop box + speech level 100 combo is a neat trick
$25.58 is tax (GST/HST) which has always been a thing
The BS 'handling fee" they charge is the $11.40+1.48 fee, also an existing thing
The $39.35 SIMA assessment I’ve never seen before is a fee to prevent “dumping” apparently
Anti-Dumping Duties – If a foreign company sells goods in Canada at a lower price than in their home market, it is considered dumping. To level the playing field, Canada applies anti-dumping duties.
@fourthstartcg might have it right that this is the retaliatory tariff being applied here. I actually don’t see trading cards on the list though (but there’s over 1000 categories so maybe I missed it):
I also thought this initially. I wonder if they’re just using an old form that hasn’t been updated for the tariffs, so they just put the tariff fee in the SIMA box. Likely a miscategorization of the item, good catch by @koala on a possible way this could have been categorized. I feel like “playing card” is a fairly common customs declaration term, so maybe that resulted in it.
I am actually going through the process of arguing these fees, as it seems FedEx or the government doesn’t have their systems set up properly for this tariff.
I will be mailing my dispute forms tomorrow and I’ll gladly update this thread!
Although since this is done through mail (I assume to deter people from disputing) it won’t be quick.
I thought these Tariffs were paused until April 2nd no ? I should follow this more closely as I have missed something I’m sure , there’s a couple listings on EBay I’m eye balling that are based in the US as I’m also from Canada and I was hoping to get them before the Tariffs came back April What am I missing ?
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What am I missing ?