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When UPS charged me a $684 tariff on $355 of vintage computer parts

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320 points goldenskye | 1 comments | 15 Nov 25 23:55 UTC | HN request time: 0.374s | source
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rkagerer ◴[16 Nov 25 11:04 UTC] No.45944168[source]▶
Section 232 tariffs on steel and aluminum, which required me to fill out a UPS-specific form attesting to the steel and aluminum content

I ordered a specialty lock and some keys valued at about $400, and paid an extra $400 in duties because of this. It's insane.

Plot twist: I'm in Canada and was ordering a made-in-USA product from a US vendor. The duties were due to matching countertartiffs at the time. Sorry, but that's the last lock I buy from the US (and maybe the last thing with metal in it if I can help it) until this mess is resolved.

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bombcar ◴[16 Nov 25 13:43 UTC] No.45945092[source]▶
At those prices it’d be cheaper to fly to the US and walk up to the company and buy it and fly back.
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1. testing22321 ◴[17 Nov 25 06:49 UTC] No.45951350[source]▶
For many years it was cheaper to fly to the US, buy a MacBookPro and fly back to Australia than it was to buy one in Australia.