Tariffs

Talked to a tennis partner friend today. She does high end placement. Her business is dead. Vs last year when she won a week in Bermuda, and the company treated her and her husband to four days in Las Vegas. This year it will be Wildwood and Atlantic city on the Jersey shore. Out of pocket of course.
Steve, +100 thumbs up on the mixed doubles tennis. I'm a big tennis player. Luckily our indoor club in CD'A managed to keep 4 courts and not turn them ALL into pickleball courts like they did with the other courts (turned them all into Pickleball). Not against Pickleball, but until I can't play semi-competitive tennis anymore I will keep playing tennis and MAYBE pick up pickleball or golf later in life. I played mixed for a while in Dana Point but man, couldn't take the constant lobbing with the women (and I love women, don't get me wrong). Drove me nuts, and that was when I was a 4.0 player. Now a solid 3.5 but at least the pace is still there with the Men's Doubles.

What were we talking about again? Oh politics....I'll stick to the tennis comments or piss more people off...you guys! So much I'd like to say but will refrain. Not worth it anymore. I'll stick to tennis and vintage BWW's.

"Right now I'm having amnesia and deja vu at the same time...I think I have forgotten this already before" - Steven Wright
 
I beleive people are still buying tyres from us in the States and they are not having tariffs applied to them.

 
Dougal, not at least as part of your billing, but in all likelihood they have had to pay it to the freight company. hopefully if the trade agreement goes through between the USA + UK this won't be much of an issue, but may still be 10% more. curious if you get any feedback from purchasers whether they have to or not.
 
Dougal, not at least as part of your billing, but in all likelihood they have had to pay it to the freight company. hopefully if the trade agreement goes through between the USA + UK this won't be much of an issue, but may still be 10% more. curious if you get any feedback from purchasers whether they have to or not.
When I started this thread (for some reason my original post has disappeared), I noted that buying from W-N the shipping and price did not have any tariff. However, I got a bill form UPS for 25% of the customs declared value, and had to pay that before they delivered the parts.

So CLEARLY in this instance the buyer pays the tariff. I am sure for other more wholesale shipments, the US side distributor receiving the shipment pays the tariff, and then passes some or all of that down the chain.
 
I beleive people are still buying tyres from us in the States and they are not having tariffs applied to them.

Interesting. Deliveries under 800 dollars from China are still getting through unaffected for a business I know.
Looks like the enforcement is arbitrary.
 
I beleive people are still buying tyres from us in the States and they are not having tariffs applied to them.

Perhaps, but the problem is that a US customer who orders these tires won't know for certain that they will be delivered without the tariff until they are delivered without the tariff. I would think that would be uncommon (primarily because the shipping company would be foolish to take the chance that they can avoid being billed for uncollected tariffs retroactively). I suspect ScottAndrews' situation is far more likely, where the shipping company won't deliver until they collect the tariff even where this was not mentioned by the seller at the time of sale.
 
Perhaps, but the problem is that a US customer who orders these tires won't know for certain that they will be delivered without the tariff until they are delivered without the tariff. I would think that would be uncommon (primarily because the shipping company would be foolish to take the chance that they can avoid being billed for uncollected tariffs retroactively). I suspect ScottAndrews' situation is far more likely, where the shipping company won't deliver until they collect the tariff even where this was not mentioned by the seller at the time of sale.
perhaps this is where a smart seller would say for US customers, the tires are 100 gbp each and the shipping is 115 gbp each
 
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