Anyone have experience ordering from Andover under new tarriffs?

Tornado said:

What, I thought the origin country pays the tariff...are you saying we're being lied to?

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Danger will Robinson, Danger. Jerry's terrible swift sword might strike this down - politics! But, Yes!

marshg246 said:

Here we go again with DHL.

I have an AN order on the way. According to https://hts.usitc.gov/ there are still no duties on 8714.10.0050 even though Donald Trump says there are. The order is under $800 so there should be no duty due to de minimis and there hasn't been on under $800 orders earlier this year. I've been using UPS or Royal Mail but this time Royal Mail wasn't available and UPS was much more than DHL.

The parts are $732.70 and the shipping is $57.74 for a total of $790.44

DHL wants $72.81 in "duties". They charge a handling fee of $17.00 so they are saying the duties are $55.81.

55.81/732.70 = 7.6% or 55.81/790.44= 7.1% How does that match anything?

Since almost all the parts are to fill orders already priced and since I make almost nothing on parts, if I have to pay this, I will lose money on each sale

I've, once again, filed a dispute with DHL.

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Got my "final" threat email and text from DHL - pay in 48 hours or will send it back. Of course I sent the dispute within minutes of receiving the first notice and they give themselves three business days to respond. For some reason, the initial notice always comes on Friday afternoon.

Hearing various things, I went looking and found: https://www.whitehouse.gov/presiden...-free-de-minimis-treatment-for-all-countries/

On July 30, 2025 the executive order was signed to end de minimis except for postal shipments. The effective date is August 29, 2025.

Things are about to get weird on my pricing. Most know that Access Norton members and return customers never pay my published price and generally you can buy from me for a lower delivered price than you can get from AN/Tri-Spark/AMAL/Wassel and others direct. I may have items bought before and after duties hit so it's possible when buying multiples of an item that they are listed with two different prices. For instance, a rear vernier ISO that I have in stock today would go for $110.00 + shipping if you bought two (one I have and one after duties start) they would probably listed separately as $110 and $120 on the invoice.

I'm still unable to determine the duty rate from the UK to US. However, as of August 29th, if you buy anything no matter how small and it is shipped by other than the postal service, there will be duties to pay and the shipping companies will tack on their fee for handling it. That fee can easily be more than the duty! For instance, buy something from AN for $100 0 if the duty is 7.6% then you'll pay $7.60 for the duty, and $17.00 for DHL to handle it!