Do you know that for sure? I posed that question earlier and nobody ansered it. I've had canadian tax added on to purchases of PDFs I've bought from some USA online retailers. The same is true for digital VTT content I buy from Steam. That didn't start happening until after the free trade agreement was renegotiated in 2018. So, I'm assuming it won't be any different for tariffs.
Many small sums add up.
Inflation has been running wild for the last four years. There's a lot of leeway in play.
Game stores are not a very big demographic, and brick&mortar is likely a doomed business model anyway.
And there's an interesting point. Kohler's factories in Mexico have been dogged by quality control, infrastructure, and social issues; they do not have a 25% margin to work with. If the tariff forces Kohler to bring back production to US plants, its a major win.
The US-Canadian trade amounts to a trillion dollars, +/-, and the bulk of it is in fossil fuel and auto parts & assembly. Nudge Canadian costs up with a tariff could lead to US production increasing, which would be very popular with both voters, unions, and the big corps. Most especially the latter two. The 2026 campaign has officially kicked off, too.
Do they source all the components that go into their books here in the United States? Wood, paper, and pulp are among Canada's largest exports to the United States and tariffs will see an increase in price across the board including domestic sources. i.e. High tariffs on Canadian wood will increase demand on domestic product thereby increasing its price as well. Of course I can easily afford a 25% increase in the cost of RPG books, but since I expect prices for just about everything to increase it's going affect my purchasing power. I expect to spend less on gaming than I have in previous years.
There's the million-dollar question: will the added jobs and revenue from boosted domestic production offset the market dislocation caused by the tariffs?
I think we will be very lucky if the worst thing that happens is that TTRPG products increase their MSRP by "only" 25%.
Corps hate Tariff's cause they make money on trade, and this increases what they have to pay. Pretty much all voters hate them too. Which is why they are not normally used in this way, especially with a country's primary trade partner.
Inflation sucks, but this is not inflation, it's just a direct rise in prices for no good reason.
Yes screw your livelihood, it should fall apart while the USA fails to gain anything.
What US Plants. You need years to set those up that America doesn't have.
That would probably be correct. But it doesn't matter cause America is not set up to take advantage of it. It would just be easier to trade with Mexico and Canada for mutual profit.
Once again they are not set up for it. It would just be easier to trade with Canada for mutual profit.
But it just won't happen.
There won't be any, cause the added jobs and revenue don't exit and they have to pay more for everything. Cause America does not understand how Tariffs work and that you don't suddenly put them on your primary trade partners for no reason.
They won't. Oil and Automakers are going to get hit super hard by this.
Actually, corps hate paying tariffs. Tariffs that give them an edge, on the other hand, they love. As to the voters, last November proves that isn't true.
Time will tell.
Games stores have been dying for decades. They are in fact, doomed.
Kohler has numerous US plants in operation.
Actually, we are set up to take advantage of it.
Once again, no, we are set up for it. Mutual profit is, BTW, less than 'sole profit'.
They said that in the run-up to November. And they were wrong.
I expect that you are wrong.
The stock market and company futures are calling you severely mistaken. Time will tell.
