I kinda had a good sale...until I saw the VAT.
I never notice it this high.
It does take a bite out of the final total I receive.
Would this be a new tariff thing?
I sold before to this country but never notice it this high.
If I had item + shipping under $100. I wonder if the VAT would be cheaper...would it?
The country is Croatia...which I have mailed to before.
There's this asterisk on You'll pay tarrifs on shipments over $800 from China and Hong Kong.
@da6170 wrote:
There's this asterisk on You'll pay tarrifs on shipments over $800 from China and Hong Kong.
OK. That's new in the last few days, I think, and it only applies to shipments coming from China or Hong Kong, and it applies to all shipments, even under $800. I was responding generally, and I think that is one of the specific situations that I referred to earlier.
*Effective May 2, 2025, goods of any value from China and Hong Kong will be subject to duties. Duties will be included in the item or shipping cost on goods less than $2500 from China or Hong Kong.
That is basically what I said about SpeedPAK shipping. eBay requires the sellers to prepay the import charges and tariffs, so the sellers have to include them in the item price and/or the shipping.
eBay requires a lot of sellers to use SpeedPAK if their items are shipped from China. That is probably why that has been added. To my knowledge, eBay has not published when or how they decide if sellers shipping from China have to use SpeedPAK, and the published pages (for export sellers) are mostly on country-specific eBay policy pages. So it is hard to figure out the requirements with certainty.
I suspect that eBay may be requiring any sellers (with items coming form China or Hong Kong) to use SpeedPAK (or another third-party shipper) unless they have a warehouse in the USA that they are shipping from.
Note that tariffs are charged on items made in China or Hong Kong, no matter where they are being shipped from.
So if an item made in China is shipped to the USA from for example Canada, then tariffs would be applied and would have to be collected by the shipping carrier at delivery (unless it is shipped by a third-party shipper such as Stallion or Chit Chat, but I don't think they are currently accepting any items made in China).
There have been some reports from US buyers purchasing from the UK that the eBay UK Global Shipping Programme appears to be collecting tariffs on items that could be from China if the country of manufacture is not specified. (I haven't seen any reports relating to items shipped from the UK where the country of manufacture was specified to be China.)
