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yakkowarnermovies1989 · ‎08-28-2025

Hello,

I purchased this item on August 18th.

It is PS1 Tours also Spyro X Sparks tons Sony Sony PlayStation 1 Japan Import.

It is from Tokyo, Japan.

I paid $56.65 for it.

And it says it is being shipped using usps and it also says Due to US policies, import fees for this item will need to be paid to customs or the shipping carrier on delivery.

You can find out more information about tariff
rates based on the item description from the
Harmonized Tariff Schedule. Additional duty

rates may apply based on the item's type and
"Country/Region of Manufacture" (country of
origin), which may be found in the item
description.

Multiply the tariff percentage by your total
order amount shown at checkout.

Shipping providers (e.g., UPS) or US Customs
will charge processing fees ranging from

$10-$30.

It's being shipped using usps.

24% x (US$56.65) = $14

So, how much do I owe when it is delivered?

estate_echoes · ‎08-28-2025

@yakkowarnermovies1989 wrote:
But there's gotta be some ways we can know now.

Well yes, common sense would make one think that. Countries don't even know. It's the US and an incompetent admin trying to rush through new things by waving a magic pen on paper.

Just look at todays reporting.... 15% tariffs were mistakenly charged ontop of other tariffs. Now we have to refund.

Japan's trade envoy postpones US trip as Tokyo wants faster action on tariffs deal - ABC News

yakkowarnermovies1989 · ‎08-28-2025

So, can you please try to help me find an estimate of how much my total (of for me to pay) will be?

yakkowarnermovies1989 · ‎08-28-2025

Look what I found.

Japan Rabbit might have the details

titipeo · ‎08-28-2025

OP, you keep asking us to contract carrier, why can’t you do that? No one here will do that for you. Sone members have gone beyond with tracking info and provided links for you to verify. You should have vetted the seller properly to find a local US vendor if available, but that is past.

This situation is very fluid and changes constantly, USPS is the only one that has not really assured how they are handling this. In the end you need to wait and get the notification or call for duties due and some sort of handling/clearance fees if needed. Be it whatever it is. At minimum, should be 15%, $9 or so to round up. Stop asking us to call/contact when you can do that on your own.

We are all buyers and sellers alike that help each other out, this is not eBay, nor Tokyo Int’l post or USPS that are helping you and we do not know all the pertinent details on how this will transpire. We can only assume & provide estimates, as you have read the varied ones provided. This was on you verify ahead of time before making purchase. Cheers.

estate_echoes · ‎08-28-2025

I have.... Ad valorem...$8.50 plus 11.50 handling... so $20 bucks minimum.

Flat rate: $80 plus 11.50... 91.50

Depends on method used... we dont know.....

Depends on handling fee... we dont know if there is an increase.

We will know when you are told.

estate_echoes · ‎08-28-2025

@yakkowarnermovies1989 wrote:
Look what I found.
Japan Rabbit might have the details

Thats basically what we have discussed. Except it omits handling fees... and assumes USPS will use flat rate.

The format suggests an AI response. Symbols are what Co-Pilot produces.

I have seen nothing that specifically says USPS will l use flat rate.

Doesn't mean they wont, i just think it isnt known yet, but we will find out shortly. Hopefully.

lacemaker3 · ‎08-29-2025

@estate_echoes wrote:
@lacemaker3 I found out he seller used Japan Post which uses USPS... (despite their listing saying fed-ex/DHL for international orders.) So 10 days ago would be before Japan post shutdown shipment to US.

Japan Post tracking says it arrived at outward exchange office. Which i believe is customs. USPS tracking says it cleared this office at the same time. Who knows what really happened. US shipments were halted on the 27th... hopefully this ensured prior shipments were able to clear. It was shipped on the 25th.

...

No, the "outward office of exchange" in Japan would be the post office facility there which forwards packages to the US. The US CBP (customs and border protection) office is in the US, probably one of the offices on the west coat for shipments from Japan.

The tracking says the package arrived at the outward office of exchange in Japan on Aug 26, and has no further scans after that. The Universal Postal Union (UPU) says "Arrived at international sorting center in country of origin". Japan Post stopped sending packages to the US as of Aug 27, according to this:

https://www.reuters.com/en/japan-post-suspends-some-us-bound-mail-after-us-ends-duty-exemption-2025-...

So this means that the package is held up in Japan, and has not been sent to the US. As of now (Aug 29, 2025) it will not be sent to the US, because the duty/tariffs were not paid, and it doesn't have a Declaration ID (which proves that they were paid, and identifies exactly what is in the package). So they can't send it now, because US CBP won't accept it.

My best guess at this point is that the package will be sent back to the sender in Japan. That will be for Japan Post to decide. There's no way to predict how long that will take, because this has never happened before, as far as I know.

This link has the best information available about tracking for this international package. This includes all notices from Japan Post, UPU and USPS. All the notices with the same date and time are the same, the different wording is just how the different companies display them.

https://parcelsapp.com/en/tracking/RN095117007JP

@estate_echoes wrote:

...

From what I understand Japan post/USPS will have to pay duties before they can take the package to be delivered.... what I dont understand is when/how this is collected from the buyer... I see somethings saying buyer will get a phone call/email from carrier while still at customs...others saying it can be collected upon delivery....

The sender has to pay the duty/tariffs when they purchase the shipping label. So the sender (seller) has to collect the duty/tariff from the buyer before they ship the item. eBay doesn't have any way in place for an international seller to do this ... which is a big problem for them. Many international sellers have had to (or have tried to) shut down sales to the US because of this.

USPS will not be collecting the duty/tariff from the recipient (buyer) when they deliver the package. The executive order requires that all packages have the duty/tariff prepaid, so that they don't have to collect it any more.

This simplifies that problem of eliminating the de minimis exemption, as far as US CBP and USPS are concerned. But it means that all international postal services around the world will have to process the payments and remit them to US CBP instead.

@yakkowarnermovies1989, nobody in the world (except the computer programmers at Japan Post who are trying to implement this change) can tell you at the moment, how much the duty/tariff would be, even if the package was going to be sent to the US. It depends which methodology they choose to use to calculate the amount due.

But I don't believe it will be sent to the US. It would have to be reshipped, with the correct procedure so that the duty/tariffs are paid and with a Declaration ID to prove that to US CBP, once Japan Post has been able to implement that.

You will probably not receive this package. You will need to file an Item Not Received case, once the last expected delivery date has passed, and then you will get a refund.

yakkowarnermovies1989 · ‎08-29-2025

Are you sure about this? And could you please contact the computer programmers at Japan Post about this? I really don't know how to do this?

lacemaker3 · ‎08-29-2025

@yakkowarnermovies1989

I'm sorry, but no, I can't. I was being just a little bit sarcastic, and slightly humorous. Nobody has any way to contact the programmers at Japan Post. That wasn't a serious suggestion.

No, I'm not sure about this. Nobody has experienced this before. All I can do is make my best guess, which I did. I don't think Japan Post is going to send this package to the US now. It is too late.

Watch the tracking link I gave you, and if the package moves somewhere, it will be shown there.

https://parcelsapp.com/en/tracking/RN095117007JP

Look at the transaction in your purchase history, and see what the estimated dates of arrival are.

estate_echoes · ‎08-29-2025

@lacemaker3 wrote:
@estate_echoes wrote:
@lacemaker3 I found out he seller used Japan Post which uses USPS... (despite their listing saying fed-ex/DHL for international orders.) So 10 days ago would be before Japan post shutdown shipment to US.

Japan Post tracking says it arrived at outward exchange office. Which i believe is customs. USPS tracking says it cleared this office at the same time. Who knows what really happened. US shipments were halted on the 27th... hopefully this ensured prior shipments were able to clear. It was shipped on the 25th.

...

No, the "outward office of exchange" in Japan would be the post office facility there which forwards packages to the US. The US CBP (customs and border protection) office is in the US, probably one of the offices on the west coat for shipments from Japan.

The tracking says the package arrived at the outward office of exchange in Japan on Aug 26, and has no further scans after that. The Universal Postal Union (UPU) says "Arrived at international sorting center in country of origin". Japan Post stopped sending packages to the US as of Aug 27, according to this:
https://www.reuters.com/en/japan-post-suspends-some-us-bound-mail-after-us-ends-duty-exemption-2025-...

So this means that the package is held up in Japan, and has not been sent to the US. As of now (Aug 29, 2025) it will not be sent to the US, because the duty/tariffs were not paid, and it doesn't have a Declaration ID (which proves that they were paid, and identifies exactly what is in the package). So they can't send it now, because US CBP won't accept it.

My best guess at this point is that the package will be sent back to the sender in Japan. That will be for Japan Post to decide. There's no way to predict how long that will take, because this has never happened before, as far as I know.

This link has the best information available about tracking for this international package. This includes all notices from Japan Post, UPU and USPS. All the notices with the same date and time are the same, the different wording is just how the different companies display them.
https://parcelsapp.com/en/tracking/RN095117007JP

@estate_echoes wrote:

...

From what I understand Japan post/USPS will have to pay duties before they can take the package to be delivered.... what I dont understand is when/how this is collected from the buyer... I see somethings saying buyer will get a phone call/email from carrier while still at customs...others saying it can be collected upon delivery....

The sender has to pay the duty/tariffs when they purchase the shipping label. So the sender (seller) has to collect the duty/tariff from the buyer before they ship the item. eBay doesn't have any way in place for an international seller to do this ... which is a big problem for them. Many international sellers have had to (or have tried to) shut down sales to the US because of this.

USPS will not be collecting the duty/tariff from the recipient (buyer) when they deliver the package. The executive order requires that all packages have the duty/tariff prepaid, so that they don't have to collect it any more.

This simplifies that problem of eliminating the de minimis exemption, as far as US CBP and USPS are concerned. But it means that all international postal services around the world will have to process the payments and remit them to US CBP instead.

@yakkowarnermovies1989, nobody in the world (except the computer programmers at Japan Post who are trying to implement this change) can tell you at the moment, how much the duty/tariff would be, even if the package was going to be sent to the US. It depends which methodology they choose to use to calculate the amount due.

But I don't believe it will be sent to the US. It would have to be reshipped, with the correct procedure so that the duty/tariffs are paid and with a Declaration ID to prove that to US CBP, once Japan Post has been able to implement that.

You will probably not receive this package. You will need to file an Item Not Received case, once the last expected delivery date has passed, and then you will get a refund.

Ah... that helps, i see my error... I was describing the old process... you described the new.... it makes the issue clearer. The responsibility has been passed onto to the foreign carriers to do something they haven't done before. that better explains the confusion. Thank you for clearing that up.

I meant outward exchange office is Japan's customs.

soh.maryl · ‎08-29-2025

Would just guess that the delivery person would tell you that information, apparently somewhere around $14.

jdbelt1960 · ‎08-29-2025

Bingo! There lies the problem as each country is different. There is no guidance from the U.S. how to implement their requirements nor even clarity on what the requirements are. Thus most countries paused shipping period. Some countries created a flat fee dependent on their tariff rates ranging from $80-$200 per package. Everyone is confused. Welcome to the New America.

soh.maryl · ‎08-29-2025

Not criticizing any particular government entity here, but doesn't it appear that the US may have jumped into this tariff situation without a lot of advance planning?