Reciprocal Tariffs

[meme6253]

I no longer sell outside of the U.S.A., But i am curious if these tariffs need to be in place for sellers here?, In other words if you are selling an item going to France for instance & they tariff us 20%, do you have to up your price 20% to cover the tariff?, If that is the case, those sales will cease to exist.

[redlinear]

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@meme6253 wrote:

I no longer sell outside of the U.S.A., But i am curious if these tariffs need to be in place for sellers here?, In other words if you are selling an item going to France for instance & they tariff us 20%, do you have to up your price 20% to cover the tariff?, If that is the case, those sales will cease to exist.

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Are you selling cargo ships full of iron ore again? 😂   

[redlinear]

I think they are trying to make them more equal.  If another country is charging us 10% and we are only charging them 3%.  Somebody here, thinks it should be more equal.  
And, use tariffs (or the threat of them) in order to get other "deserved" concessions 

[bashort]

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@my-cottage-books-and-antiques wrote:

As to the reciprocal tariff order, I haven't looked at this very closely, but I believe it authorizes the US to basically go **bleep** for tat on tariffs imposed by other countries against our imports. So, if France has a 10% tariff on US made flapperdoodles, we will impose a 10% tariff on French made flapperdoodles. Like I said, I haven't had time to look at this closely. I gather, but could be wrong, that we haven't actually enacted those tariffs just yet...I think the Order is more of a "Maybe you other countries better get rid of those tariffs, because if you don't, we're going to do tariff right back at you"

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absolutely, a reciprocal tariff is meant to promote negotiations.  

I find it hard to believe that this was not already US policy

[meme6253]

There was good money in that!, L.O.L.

[redlinear]

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@meme6253 wrote:

There was good money in that!, L.O.L.

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😂😂😂

[cardxcraft]

@legacymediasponges

Thats funny, I just saw a big headline from MSNBC and CNN talking about chaos.

[cardxcraft]

No, the tariffs are specific; they won't be applied to your eBay items.

btw, this item is nice:  Vintage Arbogast Hawaiian Weedguard Spinner crankbait lure.  I'm a largemouth bass fisherman so I'm familiar with Arbogast.  Nice antique lures.  Certain models of Heddon Sonic lures are worth some good money.

[tsme35]

Thanks, in 15+ yrs selling, its the 1st one I've ever found but then again I find new old stuff monthly. I've fish since I was a kid 50 yrs ago and thought I knew fishing gear, wow was I wrong lol.

 Ebay is a blessing to sell the old lures but also a curse, there's hundreds of sellers and hence the curse, not getting the same price as I did when I started.

 Tariffs wont' effect me, getting rid of the duty's might, it'll raise the cost for my international buyers. Even with the EIS, international shipping is expensive.

[sin-n-dex]

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@fern*wood wrote:

I'm not sure how anyone knows how to deal with this since it changes almost daily.  Will this impact the EIS program?  Chaos and business don't mix well.

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It does affect EIS, they add the tariffs. USA buyers purchasing from UK saw a 100 pound increase in price when they went to purchase something they saw with 20 pounds of shipping the day before. The UK items were treated as if they were from China (this was in response to tariffs on China).

C.

[cardxcraft]

I just checked quite a few items from sellers offering EIS and none included a tariff.  I checked from the point of view of both a Canadian and England buyer.  The VAT, in some cases, can be up to 25% of the cost of the item and shipping.

So, an item for listed for $100 usd and a shipping charge of $20 usd, and a VAT of 25%, will cost $125 usd for the item plus $25 usd for shipping.  

Can you show some examples?  I'll post some examples in a minute.

[sin-n-dex]

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@cardxcraft wrote:

I just checked quite a few items from sellers offering EIS and none included a tariff.  I checked from the point of view of both a Canadian and England buyer.  The VAT, in some cases, can be up to 25% of the cost of the item and shipping.

So, an item for listed for $100 usd and a shipping charge of $20 usd, and a VAT of 25%, will cost $125 usd for the item plus $25 usd for shipping.  

Can you show some examples?  I'll post some examples in a minute.

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This only went on for three days while tariffs were imposed on China. If you want to see examples look for the thread where the USA buyers are complaining about their EIS purchases from eBay UK.

Now that there's no tariffs (currently), I can't post a current example. The thread mentioned above (and supposedly there was more than one on the subject) had screenshots buyers posted of their purchases from eBay UK that were using EIS. The seller who shipped direct from UK was not affected by this, only EIS shipments.

Just wait, when tariffs are imposed, EIS will start charging them again and then I can give you examples.

C.

[sin-n-dex]

@cardxcraft 

It was in the buying board:

https://community.ebay.com/t5/Buying/Sudden-dramatic-increase-in-global-shipping-price-after-winning...

C.

[cardxcraft]

I've went through dozens of different types of products from the perspective of a buyers from UK, Canada, Germany, France, etc.  None show the "tariff", but UK and Europe show VAT.  The example below is listed at $249.95 usd through EIS with a domestic shipping charge of $4.95 usd.  The buyer from UK will pay a 20% VAT shipping + item cost for this item, but no tariff.  A buyer from Canada wouldn't pay any additional fees except eBay EIS marked up shipping charges.

[doc-holmes]

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@my-cottage-books-and-antiques wrote:

As to the reciprocal tariff order, I haven't looked at this very closely, but I believe it authorizes the US to basically go **bleep** for tat on tariffs imposed by other countries against our imports. So, if France has a 10% tariff on US made flapperdoodles, we will impose a 10% tariff on French made flapperdoodles. Like I said, I haven't had time to look at this closely. I gather, but could be wrong, that we haven't actually enacted those tariffs just yet...I think the Order is more of a "Maybe you other countries better get rid of those tariffs, because if you don't, we're going to do tariff right back at you"

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This will absolutely destroy the flapperdoodle market. 

[cardxcraft]

I read through the post for the link provided.  Two things are going with this post.

1.  The buyer won an auction from a UK seller but was invoiced International Priority shipping after the auction ended; which would account for the greatly increased costs.

2.  UK GSP is experiencing a cost increase glitch at the moment.

I think all this is much ado about nothing in relationship to tariffs.