Buying used from Canada

Not audio equipment and not Canada (Malaysia) and not $2000 ($500) but I recently made a purchase that was shipped by UPS. Seller made clear any tariffs were my responsibility; however, I was never charged any additional fees and the package was delivered in just 4 days to my TN USA address. Honestly I half expected receive a bill that requires me to make a direct deposit to the Don’s bank account  

@moonwatcher  - totally false. I found the Canadian government website that lists all tariffs on US goods and sorted both ways on tariff rate. All tariffs are 25%. I also sorted both ways on effective date and all of these tariffs were enacted since March 3rd 2025 which means they are all in responses to little Donny’s trade war. It’s sad that we can’t even have a conversation anymore in which facts are consistently utilized but that’s what happens when an education system is intentionally neglected by one side of the aisle for 30 years. 
 

@jasonbourne71 +as many as I can give without being tariffed - though it appears your comment has now been removed. 

While I’m not happy that @jasonbourne71 comment was removed, I can see the moderator taming this conversation. Things could go south really fast. Best to tap the brakes early. 

@cleeds + 1

No idea when we started to collect sales tax on used good, but we are now doing it. 

Things are changing all the time, no one really knows what's going on it's chaos. Ordered some record sleeves from Canada early in the year, it was a $60 order, got $50 in "fees" for that order. Took me 3 months with about 10 calls to Fed-Ex to get it sorted out, as they had no idea where their fees came from. 

Also drove up to Vancouver last month to pick up some vintage components. $700 in stuff, paid $100 "tax" at the border for stuff that is almost 50 years old. Again, border agents have no clue what they are doing. Feel like they are making it up on the fly. 

No matter you are in the political spectrum, nothing kills business more then uncertainty, and constant changes, never knowing what anything is truly going to cost. It sucks to not know what anything cost to purchase until way after you can do anything about it. Getting a 75-150% of the total bill months after receiving a product is just bad for everyone. 

That tariff Canada applies on US dairy is designed to only kick in at an annual amount that has rarely been reached. It’s designed to prevent subsidized American dairy from flooding the Canadian market thus killing the Canadian dairy industry. No different than any other nation would do to protect it’s national interest.

One point many/all miss is the big picture. America wants safe, stable neighbors whom they can rely on an trust. Since the 1930’s America has recognized this and worked with Canada. We have both benefited. What’s happening now is Canada is being pushed into other market’s, which opens the door for other Countries influence and ideologies. That’s NOT good for America. There seems to be no "big picture" thinking in the current administration.