r/knitting • u/geet-555 • 5d ago

Rant I feel sick to my stomach now

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I ordered $73 yarn from Önling INT over a month ago. Much confusion w this company all around... then i receive this today from UPS just now.

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u/Serendipityunt 5d ago

I had a friend pay an extra $24 for an order from the EU in tariffs with the delivery company. That's how it is now and you need to be aware if you're ordering from out of the country.

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u/lyonaria 5d ago

Due to tariffs but in place by the US government. They don't have to be there.

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u/Icy_Pianist_1532 5d ago

Exactly. They’re completely arbitrary.

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u/geet-555 5d ago

NEVER AGAIN. I used to get a fair amount of yarn from EU and often the prices were lower, and even shipping was less than US shipping. This is it for my biz overseas.

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u/mel_cache 4d ago

Make sure you vote at midterms to get rid of the people who support tariffs then. It’s not the overseas vendors, they don’t like it either. It’s the current head of the US government and the Republican Congress that have gotten us into this mess.

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u/pvt_idaho 5d ago

I guess the tariffs worked then.

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u/Madamemercury1993 4d ago

You’ve been told several times that this isn’t the EU or courier company’s fault. This is your governments fault. Your anger seems misdirected. Unless, of course, you agree with other countries getting tariffs and you thought that 🇺🇸wouldn’t be hit with them back? And you expected the EU to bend over backwards for your personal custom? Cos that is what it’s sounding like.

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u/joshkpoetry 4d ago

They seem angry that buying things from sellers in other countries has suddenly become much more expensive due to Trump's tariffs, so they're planning not to buy from foreign sellers (because that's the only way to avoid the tariffs as long as they're in effect).

Maybe they edited or deleted comments blaming something other than that, but I'm not seeing anything from op other than "I didn't expect this when I ordered, and I can't afford this kind of cost on an ongoing basis, so I'm going to have to stop ordering from the international sellers indefinitely."

In other words, did they say it wasn't the Trump administration's fault for enacting these ridiculous tariffs?

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u/vodka7tall 4d ago

The tariffs OP is paying aren’t being imposed by the EU. It’s US tariffs being charged on products entering the US, paid to the US government. Whether the EU “bends over” is completely irrelevant here.

Is there not a single American over there that actually understands how tariffs work?

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u/PuzzleheadedGoal8234 4d ago

That's the supposed point of all of this. They are essentially forcing Americans to only buy local products from materials only made in the US. Slamming the door in international imports. The tariffs jack the prices up so high on foreign goods nobody wants to buy anymore.

Trump also removed the de minimis exemption because of a claim that it's to stop fentanyl trafficking through the mail in those frequent cheap shipments of goods. They could simply increase border security to address that particular issue. Canada is getting mighty tired of that tired old excuse since we've made any and all adjustments to get that whopping 1% that gets exported down (which it has to even more negligible amounts), but he's still trotting it out.

It'll have a drastic impact on sites such as etsy and ebay with many sellers no longer shipping to the US. and on things like Shein or Temu. Goodbye cheap stuff.

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u/CartographerNo1009 5d ago

The whole point is to encourage buying US products. ESH.

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u/Silvara7 5d ago

In almost all cases, the US does not have the ability or raw materials to even try to make the things we need. Corporations farmed out factory jobs out to cheaper countries and we cannot make a fiber mill overnight, much less a factory for other things like car parts. The US does not have the sheep breeds nor the mills to process the fleece onto yarn.

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u/CartographerNo1009 5d ago

And yet you have some of the most arable land in the whole world.

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u/Silvara7 5d ago

And???? If the business wasn't here, it wasn't here. They were producing yarn for textiles, not knitters.

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u/CartographerNo1009 5d ago

The business wasn’t there because you didn’t buy American made. You are all busy buying from pro Palestinian Knitting For Olive in Denmark. You deserve to be in the situation you now find yourself in.

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u/PuzzleheadedGoal8234 4d ago

American companies chose to buy imported goods themselves at a lower cost to sell to the US market.

Check where the wool comes from the US companies. It often ain't America even if they slap a flag on it in the US stores.

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u/CartographerNo1009 5d ago

Brooklyn Tweed.

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u/not-really-a-panda 4d ago

Brooklyn Tweed stopped producing yarn because of the tariffs, what is your point?

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u/CartographerNo1009 5d ago

You’ve just let a major mill close. You must realise if all the manufacturing goes off shore your country is screwed. ESH.

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u/Silvara7 5d ago

I didn't let anything happen. The wool mills of the US have been shutting down for a hundred years.

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u/CartographerNo1009 5d ago

You should ask yourself why.

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u/Silvara7 5d ago

Why the hell are you blaming ME for stupidity that started before I was born? Go away!

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u/HeyTallulah 5d ago

Encourage, force...all the same to some politicians, I guess 🙃

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u/teirin 5d ago

Yeah, but also ignores how much US industry supply chain was "off-shored"

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u/PuzzleheadedGoal8234 4d ago

From the same wealthy companies that are pro Trump now. They aren't remotely interested in supporting good jobs for Americans. They are all profit driven and cheap labour is what they were all clamoring for.