US Tariffs: $80-$200 Surcharge On All Packages Regardless of Price

[The Soloist]

Canada dropped retaliatory tariffs on free trades US imports. Are games included in the current (CUSMA) Canada-US-Mexico free trade agreement?

 

[tetrasodium]

This doesn't address what I quoted. Cergorach said that goods shipped to Mexico from Canada would pay tariffs in the US. He seemed to imply that a tariff was charged on every item that transits through the US. Is this true? E.g. Does the US now intercept all mail at all bonded facilities, regardless of destination? I'd be very surprised if this was true.

He's not wrong in the possibility. You would need to define:

* Where those goods are manufactured and potentially the origin country for any resources/parts used to produce them (ie some of the auto tarrifs make an easy example here).

*Where those finished goods are warehoused
*Where the order is fulfilled by taking it from the warehouse and packaging it up so it can be shipped to Mexico
*Potentially how those goods are shipped after order fulfillment packages them.

It's possible for more than one of those to singlehandedly flip the answer from "no tarrif" to "of course tarrif is charged". It's Also relevant to consider what volume is shipped from the factory since an entire shipping container will have the tariff and flat fees spread more broadly across a higher number of units than if it's just one box in a shared shipping container or a situation like a single foreign manufactured unit being sent to a flgs where it would get shipped to Mexico after the tarrifs and fees are paid for the initial import

 

[Clint_L]

In most of the northern hemisphere there is a system called the TIR convention which allows a shipper to put goods on a sealed truck, have it travel through a number of intermediary countries, and only pay customs/tariffs in the final destination country. As far as I can tell, the USA and Canada are signatories to this convention, but Mexico is not (so I guess for them it's mostly relevant for transit from Alaska to the lower 48 and back).

Well, Alaska and the entire country of Canada.

 

[Staffan]

Well, Alaska and the entire country of Canada.

TIR is for going from nation A through nations B, C, D, and E and deliver the goods to nation F without getting the authorities in B, C, D, and E involved. When you're just going from A to B without crossing any other nations (e.g. Canada to the USA and vice versa), it doesn't come into play.

To be honest, I don't know if it works when the source and destination nation are the same, but I'm assuming it does because otherwise there'd be no point in Canada and the USA being signatories.