TL;DR I didn't make it in time. Fuck you Trump!
Edit: For those asking, this was https://www.irvwpc.com/ Please support them if you can.
Props to whoever this company is. This is one of the best bits of customer service I've seen in years.
Good thing there isn't hundreds is miles of unprotected border to snuggle across.
After the November election we bought a fridge early we were mildly interested in that is manufactured in Mexico. It seemed conspiratorial to consider possible tariffs in the purchase equation considering decades of free trade with NAFTA and later USMCA.
Yet here we are and we're very glad we bought the multi-thousand dollar fridge pre-trump-tarrifs.
Yeah, my car shit the bed right before the election and I had to get a new one.
Looking back, Iโm glad I got it when I did. It was manufactured in Mexico, like most cars in America. If my old car had lasted 6 more months, I might have ended up paying 25% more for what Iโm driving now.
Honestly; I'm impressed they both messaged you and gave you options.
Usually you wouldn't find out until the mailman is demanding payment for the package he's holding hostage in front of you.
I was surprised too! I guess Canadians hold up to their reputation ๐๐
Yeah, Canadians are good people. I like them a lot.
Canada has all sorts of people, like every other country. Canadian mining companies are awful in Mexico, negotiating draconian concessions from corrupt governments, which allows them to extract minerals very cheap while ignoring environmental laws.
I understand that corrupt politicians are to blame, but Canadian businessmen can be surprisingly impolite and exploitative.
Tariffs? Oh right, import taxes. Fuck Trump.
Ew......I don't even want to know what cheeto based sexual diseases you'd get from fucking trump.....
"Additionally, the $800 exemption for low-value goods has been removed."
I didn't even know such a thing existed, it's not something reported on the news.
So every product will be hit with the tariff raising prices, and not just expensive products getting the tariffs. Yikes!
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This is what allowed Temu and Alibaba and Wish and the like to happen (their business model was to send every single product as a single package worth under 800$, leading to enormous shipping times and waste etc., but they don't have to pay import taxes).
damn!
And it's not even this government's first big unambiguous fuck you to the common people.
Hey, at least the company seems decent and understanding. I just hope stuff getting more expensive will change the minds of some Trump supporters that aren't completely braindead yet.
Does anyone actually know why we are putting tariffs on Canadian goods?
Because Trump thinks he's Putin and wants to annex Canada.
My theory is that they want to control the North-West Passage, which due to climate change will become a high traffic trade route. Something currently dominated by Panama (which he also wants). So they're putting pressure on Canada now.
Greenland is in a similar situation but I think there may also be oil and such there as well.
But this will make the cost of eggs go down!/s
Crash the market hard enough and people won't be able to afford them....
This will definitely affect every American, every Canadian, and all citizens and residents of any country targeted by a trade war.
Not sure how much it will affect China tbh, they can self sustain. The manufacturers and exporters though, they won't be happy about it.
I got my Kobo eReader literally days ago, phew
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