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by rkagerer 211 days ago
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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At those prices it’d be cheaper to fly to the US and walk up to the company and buy it and fly back.
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.