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[–] JulieLemming@lemm.ee 6 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

It’s exciting time for smugglers. Ever wanted to be one now is prime business hours. Go make Han Solo proud like my mother used to in iron curtain 80s

[–] But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world 31 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

All the business owners voted trump and now they’re crying about free trade 😂

[–] DontMakeMoreBabies@lemm.ee 15 points 20 hours ago

I hope they all fucking starve. I mean it won't happen but I can dream.

[–] SovsensMester@feddit.dk 13 points 23 hours ago

Trump is a Russian asset. America will fall within a year. Russia and China will expand their territories freely until Europe is ready to arm itself.

[–] qarbone@lemmy.world 129 points 1 day ago (2 children)

It is inane that one of the options is "just hold on for a few days and see what happens" and that it is a viable option at all. Government is in shambles.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 17 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

There's only one thing businesses hate more than tariffs and that's uncertainty. They would be happier with the tariffs being definite, than this maybe existing and maybe not existing on a almost daily basis.

Because even if he gets rid of the tariffs, he'll try this again in a few weeks once he's forgotten about all of the push back and has randomly decided that Canada is still shipping drugs into the US. Because fentanyl can't be made in the US, everyone knows that.

[–] qarbone@lemmy.world 6 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

He's stupid but not that stupid. He doesn't even care where any drug originated from. He surely slotted "hot-button drug name" into place and blamed Canada because he wants to put pressure on them.

One of the few things in his entire life Donald has learned and been able to apply is the US Republican playbook for blame-throwing.

[–] Quill0@lemmy.digitalfall.net 5 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

He's stupid but not that stupid

I'm very certain he is that stupid

[–] qarbone@lemmy.world 1 points 15 hours ago

I agree, perhaps I misspoke. It's weird to call out that his understanding of the situation is wrong when he has no understanding of the situation at all and is uninterested in understanding.

[–] Lucky_777@lemmy.world 21 points 1 day ago

This is 100% because of Trump's flip flop ways. Fuck this guy and his MAGA cult.

[–] rayyy@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago

Hold off. Kraznov is getting so much shit he is going to walk it back, so he says. Can't trust him any more than a rabid bat though.

[–] JakenVeina@lemm.ee 172 points 1 day ago (9 children)

Props to whoever this company is. This is one of the best bits of customer service I've seen in years.

[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 41 points 1 day ago

Solid boundaries, clearly communicated. Giving the customer a choice without hurting their own bottom line. I agree. Excellent handling of the situation.

[–] based_raven@lemm.ee 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

This should be the standard lol. Who you dealing with, the mafia?

[–] djsoren19@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Pretty standard business practice for the U.S. is "The Customer Can Always Get Fucked." There's a lot of money that's basically just been stolen from me because I got tired with fighting the company to just ship me the thing I paid for, and I either bought the thing somewhere else or decided I didn't want it anymore. Most companies don't even actually have customer service, just chatbots or outsourced chumps who only seem to exist for Americans to yell at, because they have no authority to do, view, or fix anything.

[–] based_raven@lemm.ee 1 points 7 hours ago

Haha, unreal. Not American so I didn't realise how bad the customer service was. To be fair, the chatbot crap has taken over in the UK too and you often have to request to talk to a real person. My partner always just phones the companies directly and mostly gets her issues sorted out that way.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 4 points 1 day ago

I mean technically it's not the company's responsibility. If you've ordered something and they've sent it in a reasonable time frame and it just gets charged extra on entry. It's not the company putting the price up, it's your own government, so you don't really have a recourse.

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[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I bought a bunch of electronics from China back in December. No regrets.

[–] thermal_shock@lemmy.world 2 points 10 hours ago

I'm worried their networking equipment could be compromised, worse than "American" equipment.

[–] Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 376 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (10 children)

Honestly; I'm impressed they both messaged you and gave you options.

Usually you wouldn't find out until the mailman is demanding payment for the package he's holding hostage in front of you.

[–] Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 193 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I was surprised too! I guess Canadians hold up to their reputation 🙂👍

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 72 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah, Canadians are good people. I like them a lot.

[–] TeamAssimilation@infosec.pub 52 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Canada has all sorts of people, like every other country. Canadian mining companies are awful in Mexico, negotiating draconian concessions from corrupt governments, which allows them to extract minerals very cheap while ignoring environmental laws.

I understand that corrupt politicians are to blame, but Canadian businessmen can be surprisingly impolite and exploitative.

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[–] DicJacobus@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I cant wait until the European/Mexican/Chinese parts that I order from the USA that always arrive with a customs declaration of Origin:USA .. starts biting me in the ass because of their ignorance and Canadian Customs tries to hit me with Tariffs that shouldnt apply.

the better option is to just stop doing business with American shops. and thats what I've chosen, the USPS and Canadian Postal service are both such shitholes, that I have legitimatley recieved stuff from the UK, Poland and Denmark faster than I've recieved stuff fom Illinois and Iowa , in the orders I've made this year. For small things too.

[–] isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Any time an eligible item crosses the US / Canada border, a 25% tariff is applied. This is how the US does it, so this is what the Canadian government is copying.

This is terrible for auto manufacturing, where various parts cross the border multiple times between raw materials, loose parts, assembled parts and assembled vehicle. Every time those parts or materials cross either border, it gets tariffed 25%.

I believe if your item comes from the US, lands in another country, gets re-labeled and then enters Canada, it won't be tariffed, but don't quote me on that.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

How do they define "an item", because couldn't a bunch of people get together and order stuff from outside the US and then just have it all delivered in one big box? Are they going to open every box to make sure that there's only one item in it, how do they know it's not just one big item?

For example if I order one washing machine then that's one item but if I order various parts for a washing machine then that's lots of items, but technically the washing machine already contained those parts that were considered one item

[–] alsu2launda@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

The tax is on the value , if you declare your washing machine has value of 1$ then the tax would be labelled accordingly but that would be a fraud.

Hence if you order parts of the washing machines you would have to declare value of the individual part and it would be taxed accordingly.

[–] isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago

I believe it has to be declared on the packing manifest, but it relies on the expeditor being truthful. That's my understanding of it.

I don't think it's about the place of manufacture, but rather the place of origin. A lot of items are manufactured all over the place.

[–] fubarx@lemmy.ml 26 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (7 children)

#trumptarrifs

C'mon, it writes itself.

Edit: OK, #trumptariffs. Don't try to drink and spell kids.

[–] TBi@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

From the covfefe guy I wouldn’t be surprised if he misspelled himself.

[–] Tja@programming.dev 12 points 1 day ago

It writes itself? Is that why it has a spelling error?

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[–] sundrei@lemmy.sdf.org 198 points 1 day ago (9 children)

Tariffs? Oh right, import taxes. Fuck Trump.

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[–] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 49 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Good thing there isn't hundreds is miles of unprotected border to snuggle across.

[–] QuantumSparkles@sh.itjust.works 43 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Hmmm… sounds like I need to be spending more time at the border. Question: do we get to choose who we snuggle with or is it like a first come first served situation

[–] Glitterbomb@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago

I hate to sound like I'm attacking OP, but unprotected border snuggles are a risky behavior. Please consider having protected border snuggles instead. It feels the exact same, I promise.

[–] Vandals_handle@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

I will finally get to snuggle with my girlfriend in Canada!

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[–] Big_Boss_77@lemmynsfw.com 35 points 1 day ago (2 children)
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[–] vrojak@feddit.org 136 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Hey, at least the company seems decent and understanding. I just hope stuff getting more expensive will change the minds of some Trump supporters that aren't completely braindead yet.

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[–] CosmicCleric@lemmy.world 74 points 1 day ago (7 children)

"Additionally, the $800 exemption for low-value goods has been removed."

I didn't even know such a thing existed, it's not something reported on the news.

So every product will be hit with the tariff raising prices, and not just expensive products getting the tariffs. Yikes!

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[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 57 points 1 day ago (3 children)

After the November election we bought a fridge early we were mildly interested in that is manufactured in Mexico. It seemed conspiratorial to consider possible tariffs in the purchase equation considering decades of free trade with NAFTA and later USMCA.

Yet here we are and we're very glad we bought the multi-thousand dollar fridge pre-trump-tarrifs.

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[–] Cephalotrocity@biglemmowski.win 69 points 1 day ago (8 children)

Wish the company name was included. They seem to have their shit together.

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