Reply To: US tariffs and trade woes for gaming

[grantinvanman]

@elessar2590 makes sense – I think that will be a valid workaround for many companies that used to order into the US, and then out to Canada, as blanket tariffs (did they go into effect? It’s HARD TO KEEP UP!) of 25% would mean it’s cheaper to ship direct from UK – where Canada doesn’t charge a tariff.

Hobby “stuff” is duty free in Canada; we only pay GST (if over $80 typically, if at all, if Canada Post/CBSA hits it); and a “handling fee”, which is usually $10 or so, an annoyance but really not horrible. Especially less so on large orders.

But anything coming from the US is now pretty much guaranteed a counter-tariff. It’s a war, and there are no winners in this one.

I genuinely just want #teamcholesterol to do its thing and deal with the Big Mac. Stop all this insanity.

 

I did go to some hobby shops in Melbourne when I was there, and the prices weren’t obscene, but definitely “higher”. I actually bought a few small things and brought them home, a GW novel that was impossible to find – score!, some other small stuff.

The Australian, NZ, and Canadian tax systems are very much similar. I know there are exchanges that happen with our countries. Also, Canada set up – although I doubt it’s working anymore – Afghanistan’s tax system. I knew one of the guys that did that mission (he was CRA).

• This reply was modified 8 months, 2 weeks ago by grantinvanman.