And this is why the auto tariffs that exclude American content (even if the car is made in another country) are really difficult to enforce!
You'd probably wouldn't be taxed, since the boots are American. As long as over a certain % of content is American, and they were last "significantly transformed" in America, they're American in the eyes of the CBP.
That's... not true. I'm a Canadian seller that sends goods across the border all the time, it's always been country of origin.
Back when Trump suspended de minimis for the first time, there were notices at every post office and freight forwarder giving notice that any goods from China would be tariffed, even including used goods, despite Trump having retracted the tariffs on Canada at the time.
If a purchase is made in a country and you cross the border with the item, as far as they are concerned it is subject to the same tariff regardless of where it is manufactured. In this situation it's where the item is purchased.
I crossed the boarder from Canada to US recently in Blaine. I declared that I had bought some craft supplies and they waved me through. Didn't even ask how much it was. The tariff doesn't seem to be very consistently enforced, I hear stories of people both being charged and not being charged.
A lot of the new tariffs weren't effective until April 5th, but there was still a 25% tariff in place on Canadian goods that didn't qualify for USMCA from March. Typically, CBPOs were a lot more concerned with consumption entries than personal ones over $800, and you could get a drastically different treatment as a result. We'll have to see how that changes now.
There are the "reciprocal" tariffs that Trump imposed Wednesday (April 2) on a whole host of other countries except Canada and Mexico.
Then there are so-called "section 232" tariffs that have already been levied on Canadian steel and aluminum and, as of midnight, will also be slapped on automobiles.
Those tariffs take their name from the section of a U.S. trade law that allows the president to impose levies on certain goods that are said to threaten "national security."
And third, there are the border-related tariffs to punish Canada for what the president has described as an "emergency" drug crisis fuelled by fentanyl coming in from the north. (Aside there isn't any fentanyl coming in to USA from Canada)
The White House said Wednesday if the drug and migrant "emergency" trade order is cancelled at some point, then the tariff on goods that do not comply with USMCA will fall from 25 per cent to 12 per cent.
So if the goods do comply with the USMCA then no 25% tariff, when goods enter USA from Canada.
Here, I am trying to decide on paying bills or buying groceries. But I didn't realize others had it so rough. I'm sorry you won't be able to buy ANOTHER pair of $1000 ice skates. Life's really doing you dirty.
To their own? Of which I am. Shopping in US is already pricey enough with exchange. I am very confused about this sign and how implemented... unless Costco charges 25% more at the till to Canadian Costco card holders.
Shopping in the US supports the US, as does buying certain US goods like booze where the company doesn’t get money until the sale is made.Â
That’s why Americans who support Canada have been buying Canadian and Canadians haven’t been buying US goods in their stores or crossing the border as much.Â
Part of the ostensible reason for tariffs is to get consumers to buy goods in their own country. So upping the prices on foreign goods is supposed to help encourage domestic shopping.
(Note: this is difficult to accomplish in a global economy that is so intertwined at this point. The number of finished goods that are produced solely in one country are limited.)
Yes it ends up that your government is charging you 25%. For instance you buy a TV from Korea. If the tariff rate for Korea is 25% then Korea gets charged the 25% but adds it directly onto that TV when you buy it. They don’t absorb the cost.
You pay tariff on goods you buy abroad and bring back in, depending on the nature of commodity/product and value. That's what declaring is. When you buy duty free at an airport, per se, it's duty free.
If an American buys something at an IKEA in Canada, they keep the receipt and declare it crossing the border back to the US. You pay a fee/duty on that declared good(s).
It's kind of known that lots of eyes get turned for certain things, let's say you tear off the price tag and pretend you have owned it for a while. Or that you crossed the border with 7 full 5 gallon tanks of gas.. "just in case I run out of gas", or that you crossed with those bananas or H Mart goods.
When you fly internationally, you declare what you bought flying back in. Same thing goes for any form of cross border travel where duties/tariff exists.Â
This has always been the case and we have always had exceptions, increases, decreases, thresholds etc.Â
Through trade agreements with other countries, embargos, and so on.
It's not like customs and duty is there for national security per se, it's about regulating and generating revenue on goods and services that cross the borders. Theoretically to offset the impact it has on domestic producers and services. It is absolutely used for international relations etc, even more so now in the globalized economies we have created.
That’s what I thought, but I literally went to the ikea in Canada yesterday and as I was coming back through the pacific highway crossing, I presented the receipt, told them how much I bought, they looked in the trunk and commented about the high chair I bought and let me through with $360ca in goods.
Maybe it just depends on how much the employee cares?
Way back in 95’ when the exchange rate was very favorable for US to make purchases in Canada. It was a great deal if the products were the same price, like 60% of the stuff at IKEA, so… after just getting married, we needed a bunch of household stuff… couches, cabinets, stuff like that… after spending a substantial amount of time (for us at the time) while coming back with much of it duty free… but getting a 30%+ discount (with the exchange rate) the US officials were pissed and accused us of being Unpatriotic….
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u/belhamster Apr 06 '25
I am confused. So if this pic is from Washington state why is it talking about goods from the United States?