Tradd, mine was an oil painting. Do you think that would be exempt?
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Tradd, mine was an oil painting. Do you think that would be exempt?
I just read in the NYT that the impact of tariffs are starting to take effect. AND at the same time, I saw that the things that I saved in my Amazon cart have all INCREASED in price since I put them in there. For instance, a memory foam mattress topper that I was holding off on has gone from $48 to $56. There were five things in my cart and every one of them has gone up--from about $2 to $10.
I see no exemptions for art.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tybee
Which article is this?Quote:
Originally Posted by catherine
And, no, pharmaceuticals aren’t included in the Indian duty increase that goes into effect today.
Thanks!Quote:
Originally Posted by Tradd
One more question, Tradd, if I did buy another painting and there was a charge, where would it be collected? Do they deliver it somewhere and I have to pay to get it out of wherever they delivered it? do people pay the delivery person at the house?
Weird. I saw the article on my phone first thing in the morning and now I can't find it. I'll let you know if I do.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tradd
Value?Quote:
Originally Posted by Tybee
200-500.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tradd
Unless it’s shipped something like DHL express, duty collection will be a mess. DHL, FedEx, UPS have long done these shipments and will collect the duties from you before delivery. Strongly suggest you pay more to ship it with one of these.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tybee
Or just don’t buy from overseas. I’m not kidding. It will save you a lot of guessing and anxiety.
Now see Church shooting in Minneapolis. Suppose the felon dictator wannabe will now want to send more milita to that city? There needs to be more realistic restrictions on guns.. ie only a few shots available in guns! That makes more sense than sending the militia.
I looked and he shipped it DHL Express, and it was fast and easy. But it sounds like it may not be in the future.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tradd
Importers are starting to send cargo back. Got docs last minute for a shipment arriving tomorrow. Manufacturing machinery from the EU. Lots of high end manufacturing equipment comes from Europe. About $800K cargo value. Subject to 50% steel duty. They’re sending it back. They don’t have the budget for the extra duties. They had people coming out to install it. Now the funny part: company exec thought he shouldn’t be subject to the duty because they were importing it to manufacture stuff here. I asked him where he got that idea since that exemption doesn’t exist. He also objected strongly when I referred to him as the importer because he makes stuff here. I told him he brings stuff in from outside the country so he is an importer. Think I know which way he voted. ����
The IEEPA /reciprocal tariffs were ruled illegal, but they're still in effect until October to allow Orange Man to appeal to the SC.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/b...smid=url-share
It would sure be something if all the tariffs were revoked and it was all for nothing.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tradd
The Section 232 industry specific tariffs (steel, aluminum, copper, autos, etc) are under a different law and not affected by this ruling.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rogar
I'm guessing that would still be a lot and an embarrassment for America or Trump? My cursory understanding of the issue is whether the tariffs were enacted due to "economic emergency" and possibly should have gone through congress. The SC Is going to be busy.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tradd
Local news announced that CVS and Walgreens in Colorado will require a prescription to get the annual Covid booster. They speculated that insurance may not pay for it. I'll be making a point of getting mine with the influx of unvaccinated people. It sounds like Medicare will still cover the cost for those over 65.
It will be of some interest tot see if there is a big outbreak, but there may not be anyone left at the CDC to track it, or it will be a cover up like the BLS firing.
Yep, the economic emergency is a bunch of BS. Will be really interesting to see if the SC sees it that way or not. IEEPA doesn't even mention tariffs.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rogar
More tariffs!
Gift article: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/b...smid=url-share
5% on heavy trucks, 30% on upholstered furniture, 50% on wood cabinets and vanities, and 100% on branded/patented pharmaceuticals (unless the manufacturer is building a plant in the United States). Effective October 1.
Nothing official yet. Just Truth Social. Note: most branded/patented pharma comes from Europe. The generics tend to come from India/China.
I loved that he devoted a whole tweet to furniture and cabinetry.
I kept waiting for one concerning pillows.
This is just a clownshow.
I have customers that import furniture from both China and India. The upholstered stuff (chairs, sofas) as well as some cabinets that will get hit with these new tariffs. Will be interesting to see how they stack with the current tariffs.Quote:
Originally Posted by bae
These new ones will be under Section 232, which is the industry specific tariffs. The steel, aluminum, and copper, as well as auto tariffs fall under the same law.
These are separate from the IEEPA tariffs (fentanyl and reciprocal).
https://apnews.com/article/doge-musk...ec2fd491d79b78
surprise. Remember all those cancelled leases? Turns out some of the agencies were never told and the leases expired with workers still there. So now there are penalties from the owners on top of rents.
plus they are hiring back some workers with seven months back pay because the departments can’t function without them. Who knew?
If Trump is a clown show, I have to think in similar terms for people who voted for him and continue to support him, as well as his cohorts in Congress and his sycophant staff who all continue to enable him. The term is enablers.
I think his mental decline is becoming more apparent after watching him embarrass America in front of the UN.
I spent time at work this week preparing for a fed shutdown. I went through a 16 day shutdown in 2013 and 35 days in 2018/19.
As I learned during the 2013 shutdown, the International Trade Commission website that hosts the US tariff https://hts.usitc.gov blocks anyone from using it. So I downloaded all the individual PDFs for all the sections to the public shared drive at work. Back in 2013, I still had my paper copy of the tariff from when I took the broker's exam in 2012, but everyone else where I worked for at the time had already switched from paper copies to the online version.
CBP'S trade system is called ACE (Automated Commercial Environment), developed back in the 2010s. There is a portal that importers or customs brokers can log onto to do some things. It's more useful for importers as they can pull all sorts of reports. For brokers, the main use is for filing protests to make changes or protest a CBP decision after a shipment has been cleared. The portal is so bad we say it has stage 4 cancer. Extremely non-user friendly, even with the major update a few months ago. I've filed the occasional protest in paper form for years. I finally struggled and taught myself how to file a protest electronically.
I also made sure we had access to certain FDA notifications of arrival on food imports via FDA's ITACS website, rather than relying on FDA emailing them out. https://www.access.fda.gov/itacs/#/ At the time of the 2013 shutdown, FDA was still mailing out a lot of the NOAs. Because they didn't have postage money, they couldn't mail them out. That's when a lot of importers and brokers moved to using ITACS more.
CBP has already scheduled a call with the trade on Wednesday to outline how operations will be affected during a shutdown. The uniformed CBP officers will still work, but a lot of the civilian employees will be furloughed. These are the import specialists, etc. The ABI reps (Automated Broker Interface, the software that bridges brokers systems and CBP's ACE), aka the CBP help desk, will mostly be furloughed, leaving very few reps to handle the entire country. I've worked with my reps for more than 10 years. Brokers are assigned to specific reps. This is especially bad with the new tariffs going into effect Oct 1. There are always issues filing clearances when new tariffs go into effect. Both the brokerage software providers and CBP programmers work overtime.
FDA inspections and related will be slower. CBP Agriculture officers will still be working, but I believe some are furloughed. Everything moves slower. This shutdown should be a better experience than 2018/19 since CBP and the other agencies dealing with imports had the experience of being paperless and offsite during covid.
Meanwhile, Trump is sending in troops to war-ravaged Portland.
The amount of money spent on the deportation program as well as the guard in cities is ridiculous.Quote:
Originally Posted by bae
AND, ludicrous amounts of money spent on stupid things like making a mega ballroom at the white house or cementing in the rose garden. Also, trump taking an entourage to sporting events…. lunacy!Quote:
Originally Posted by Tradd
As it happens, two of my sons were at the Ryder Cup yesterday when they saw this and sent the family a picture. (Air Force One in case you can't make it out)Quote:
Originally Posted by frugal-one
Attachment 6534
The WH ballroom is apparently being paid for by Trump himself as well as private donorsQuote:
Originally Posted by frugal-one
As a former Portlander (1991 - 1996), I say good luck with that! Portlanders will not put up with this BS for long. RobQuote:
Originally Posted by bae
Crossing fingers.....my take as a former Portlander - this is a city more likely than most to stand up to this current Administration's BS. What "standing up" might look like - we'll just have to see if such indeed takes place. But my point, trying to not get too chatty as is my habit - this is money well spent for once as my belief is that invading Portland is more likely to yield the United States splitting up than invading most US cities. So I smile internally and hope for the split up, it's the best we can hope for as a nation going forward. RobQuote:
Originally Posted by Tradd
Portland is by all accounts a cesspool.
Really? Have you been there?Quote:
Originally Posted by Tradd
They should bring lots of rakes.Quote:
Originally Posted by gimmethesimplelife
I’ve been there a dozen times this year, I must have missed the cesspool part. Parking and traffic were a bit bad the day I accidentally showed up on some city-wide holiday, the Rose Festival or something like that.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tradd
Welcome to life in the Handmaid's Tale, Sooner Style:
Teachers concerned about what's missing from Bibles now in Oklahoma classrooms
That's rich, from a state that celebrates/champions liars, cheats, and thieves. Sooners, indeed.
it’s a good teaching moment. Have the kids find what’s missing from this presentation of the US ConstitutionQuote:
Originally Posted by Tybee
Does the introductory material make it clear that this is the original Founding Fathers’ document? My handy dandy bathroom copy of the Constitution notes when each of the 11th - 27th Amendments were ratified.
Ummmm no. Where are you getting this from? I would be tempted to say that there is a whole world out there beyond FOX Entertainment For Conservatives (sorry, FOX News LOL).....but you have shown depth and the ability to think before and I don't wish to be disrespectful so I will merely ask where are you getting this from? RobQuote:
Originally Posted by Tradd