When UPS charged me a $684 tariff on $355 of vintage computer parts
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When UPS charged me a $684 tariff on $355 of vintage computer parts
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Re: When UPS charged me a $684 tariff on $355 of vintage computer parts
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Re: When UPS charged me a $684 tariff on $355 of vintage computer parts
#3I guess we can’t know precisely how this happened without seeing UPS’s original Form 7501.
The amended one sounds strange. Why did they claim that the duty for the actual HTS code is $0, and attribute the entirety of the tariff to the special EU-origin code?
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It’s useful background if you don’t understand how paying tariffs works for small individual shipments. This is something most Americans who buy stuff from abroad haven’t had to deal with until the ending of de minimis.
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While tariffs aren't a secret, they are a new reality for majority of americans. They never had to bother with any of that before they ended De Minimis, now every single package must go through a complicated import process and if you are somewhat inexperienced with it (as most people do), you might end up with UPS screwing up the paperwork and charging you wrongly hundreds of dollars.
That's ultimately what the US citizens voted for and I think that's important they know what they are dealing with.
Re: When UPS charged me a $684 tariff on $355 of vintage computer parts
#6Tariffs are great. They protect the struggling domestic IT industry and gives it time to ramp up its production of vintage computer parts.
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If it had been just the last paragraph you'd be (rightly) complaining that there wasn't enough context to evaluate the claim in the headline.
Re: When UPS charged me a $684 tariff on $355 of vintage computer parts
#8Tariffs are great. They protect the struggling domestic IT industry and gives it time to ramp up its production of vintage computer parts.
True, but does not help in this case with vintage parts.