Dont tell us what we will feel. (Reference to Trump - Zelensky meeting)
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Trump is imposing tariffs that he said he would impose for many months during his campaign. He never said anything about tariffs on other counties as far as I know. Not much reason to think that will happen.
Girl what is this essay for? I said hilarious gif. It made me laugh. His stupid face is ridiculous.
You don’t know anything about me. I’m CANADIAN and I live in BRITAIN. I have nothing to do with Trump or the States so back tf off
Dont want to get into the details on a Pokemon forum but when I see blatant misinformation, it needs correcting. Trump does not have donors or vested interests in anything other than Amercia first.
end of political debate
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From a very biased selfish point of view I hope the pound finally starts performing if the UK dodges all of this.
Hopefully back to that wonderful 2 dollars to the pound summer. Then i’m coming for your Raichus
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+1
Summer 2006 was magic for us lowly bearers of the pound.
Those were the days…
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I remember when 1 U$D almost dipped down to 5 Norwegian zimbabwe monopolies right around the time when I bought my first set of cymbals in 2008. Having grown up with “1 U$D is 7 NOK,” it made you think.
It’s 11.20 now, worse than covid and it’s only going to get worse.
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He said he would due to drug traffiking. Wasnt to do with industry. This is different now.
After Canada agreed to his terms, he just put them in anyway. Not a great business man.
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Back to tariffs, will TCGPlayer sales international be affected by this, and if so, are they gonna go to the buyer or seller fees?
Buyer bears the increased cost, that is the whole point.
It was tariffs on Canada, Mexico, and China. All industries potentially. Conditionally. Apparently Canada is not doing enough. It’s exactly what 75 million people voted for.
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Let’s take our feelings about the current president outta this thread (this goes for everyone). We’re talking about tariffs and the impact on pokemon cards, not what the president has or hasn’t done. If we wanna point fingers rn, take it to X or a less established place (e4 discord).
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it’s important to remember that canada and europe have been paying on imports and they still buy stuff.
like musk said, it’ll only be temporary hardship until we’ve all given into the new norm of being taxed more on our international purchases.
who knows, maybe this will lead to tpci print quality increasing enough for us to not want to buy cards from japan :')
politics 
policy
policy life
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Lets keep this thread focused on the tariffs. Unrelated posts will be removed, as will political arguments.
Here’s a key impact on Pokemon collectors: PSA has immediately suspended accepting direct submissions from Canada, Mexico, and China as a result of the tariffs. I was preparing to send a submission to PSA but now I can’t, because I would be shipping direct from Canada. Using the middleman services is still an option, but prices are higher than sending direct.
While grading submissions probably shouldn’t be considered imports, the across-the-board nature of the tariffs and their haphazard imposition likely has forced PSA to stop accepting submissions. An immediate drop in American business and impact on American jobs, just in one sector. And this doesn’t take into account necessary and justified retaliation from Canada.
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Can Pokémon cards be declared an official international currency? I mean, they are more tangible than cryptocurrency, and we wouldn’t need taxes or anything on them.
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In Europe we have something called a Temporary Export / Returned Goods relief, meaning we can send cards to the USA for grading but we dont get taxed on the return based on value.
DHL/Fedex etc still charge a fee to process it, but its fixed and not based on declared value.
Many EU people even in this forum do not know this, but it does exist.
I imagine Canada has something similar, worth checking.
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Not possible to send it to Europe ? PSA is opening an office in Germany, it would be great to create jobs there 
It can’t be divided into lower values like bitcoin and other services, and you actualy do have to pay taxes on them for selling and buying. While you can do basic trading and bartering, it can’t be considered a official currency.