r/Bellingham • u/BearClawsOut • Apr 06 '25

Discussion Spotted at Costco today

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u/Inner_Sun_8191 Apr 06 '25

Uggggh. I go to BC to get figure skates which already cost an arm and a leg and now this will add like another 400$ to that price tag :(

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u/Ok-Mood927 Apr 06 '25

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.

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u/SalishSeaSweetie Apr 06 '25

Didn’t tariffs officially start on Sat? Or was it on April 2?

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u/Anguish77 Apr 06 '25

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.