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Some folks at Morgan-Kent have been wonderful recently in helping me obtain parts while my usual USA contact I use was on vacation. Tariffs were what I expected to be…about 15%. Well I just was informed by UPS that another small package with replacement windscreens valued at 157 BP was going to incur $452.90 tariff. I am going to attempt to refuse delivery and see where this goes.

As it stands it will certainly make maintaining it long term here in the USA difficult if NOT IMPOSSIBLE!

Will Stotts

2014 Brooklands #6

Will,

The tariff has obviously been calculated incorrectly. The new tariff on parts from the UK is 25%.Tariff is calculated on the FOB UK price and does not include postage. Someone can't operate a calculator.

I am in Intl. business all my life. Assume 157 sterling is FOB UK and todays exchange rate is approximately US 1.34 per pound the US dollar value is $210.38. At 25% that is $52.60 tariff. So total value should be $264.98. Little less if the 157 pounds included postage.

For years the US has had an $800.00 duty exemption on so called small packets. The Chinese learned how to totally abuse the system shipping hundreds of millions of dollars of garments, parts, etc. totally free under 70 year old postage exemptions. They established distribution centers mainly in the Los Angeles area re-stocking inventory via these small duty free packets. Unfortunately this has ruined it all for us hobbyists who only require a part from time to time.

While we import in multiple container loads direct to our industrial customers I have found some ports are easy to deal with and some are a pain. Same with the entry point for the PO. Feel for you.

TomS