Rek
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Yes, and perhaps the biggest destruction is to trust and reputation, which is built over decades and lost in a heartbeat.
Tariffs
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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.
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Dougal Cawley
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I beleive people are still buying tyres from us in the States and they are not having tariffs applied to them.
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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.
ScottAndrews
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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.
Interesting. Deliveries under 800 dollars from China are still getting through unaffected for a business I know.I beleive people are still buying tyres from us in the States and they are not having tariffs applied to them.
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Looks like the enforcement is arbitrary.
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.I beleive people are still buying tyres from us in the States and they are not having tariffs applied to them.
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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
Rek
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Brexit? Yes that has not turned out to be the economic miracle that some predicted. Actually, a £2.7 tn decision which is a reminder to not shoot yourself in the foot when that foot is in your mouth.
Dougal Cawley
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The comments i have had are from other forums where we have bween shipping tyres out and there have been no tariffs.
i have been posting trying to develop a buying frenzy before the tariffs are in place, encouraging people to buy now before they are in place.
JHowever the truth is who knows what is going to happen tomorrow? so for now it seems to be OK, and my interpretation was that back at the beginning of April it was decided not to make a decision immediately and they saidf they would re group in 3 months. But no garuntees.
if you are in the States i recomend just buying these tyres from Lucas now. if you contact him and buy them you know what price he quotes and that should be set in stone. and the tyres he currently has have not had a tariff applied to them. however what we also know is the next container of tyres he buys could well have a heft tariff applied to them, which of course he will have to recoupe by putting the prices up. so grab them while you can. they will not become cheaper.
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ScottAndrews
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I beg to differ. The people were sold a load of nationalistic anti-EU rhetoric, and they voted for it, because, like in the US, people seem to be easily swayed by con men promising the moon.. The result has been an unmitigated disaster for the British economy. Hig and persistent inflation, negative GDP growth. Pretty much where the US is headed today, and for much the same zenophobic snake oil reasoning.