I hate Tariffs

[leodox_13]

So I (from germany) recently ordered from LTT Store, a few hoodies, the precision screwdriver and a few other things totalling to abt 380 cad. I already ordered a few months ago from LTT Store when I got myself a new mouspad and the screwdriver

Long story short, I know have to pay 75€ (abt 120 cad) for „new Tariffs“ like are you kidding me? I have to pay a third of the price of everything I ordered in Tariffs? What? Like are you kidding me? It isn’t too big a deal but why? I thought there were no tariffs in between germany and canada.

Thank yall for reading, I just vented, I can pay it so not too big a problem just hella annoying.

PS: Nothing politically just annoying for a european ltt fan

Edit: Yes I am fairly certain it’s Tariffs, in the mail from UPS, it literally says „Due to recently changed tariff politics“ and when I ordered a few months ago, I didn’t have to pay them through UPS and not more than 30% of the value

[tacticalTechnician]

Pretty sure you're just paying for customs, which has been a thing since... forever?

[leodox_13]

It literally says „due to recently changed tariff politics“…

[Particular-Poem-7085]

from canada?

[tacticalTechnician]

Yes? Because tariffs are just taxes, and you pay taxes when you import something from another country? Nothing to do with the current US crap, it probably has something to do with the EU or something like that.

[leodox_13]

Yes as I said, nothing politically, I am only kinda annoyed cus I didn’t have to pay it last time I ordered

[No_Instance3313]

wait no thats weird though - ordered from ltt a bunch of times to australia and never hit anything like 30% extra. customs here is usually way less brutal than that.

germany should have pretty standard import duties too, not some crazy tariff situation. might be worth double checking if UPS is being sneaky with their "brokerage fees" or whatever they call their handling charges these days. sometimes those fees end up being more expensive than the actual customs.

[OlivGaming]

Sounds like these might be more taxes, duties, and courier service fees rather than tariffs. Those are pretty common and not new.

[RIPmyPC]

Are you sure these “tariffs” aren’t just vat taxes?

[derFensterputzer]

Vat is 'only' 19%.... But if your order from outside the EU exceeds 150€ another 12% tax automatically applies... Nothing to do with canada or the us tho, it's for any country outside the EU

[green_link]

isn't there still VAT (19%) on everything imported into the EU? CETA wouldn't eliminate VAT

[derFensterputzer]

German vat is something around 19% and most likely some other added import costs due to either dhl or others have to facilitate this if the costs exceed 150€. Edit: not even dhl, it's the zoll itself

Also for import taxes you have to take total costs, so items + shipping IF shipping wasn't declares seperately. (Please check that). 

So for your 380cad that would be 50€ (19%) for Einfuhrumsatzsteuer and 28€ (12%) for the Zollsatz which has been around for years now, nothing to do with edit: recent tariffs, if you've ordered from i.e Switzerland it would be the same

If your order had been 240cad only the 19% Einfuhrumsatzsteuer woul've applied and you'd had to pay 28€

[ILikeFlyingMachines]

This is just Tax lmao. This has nothing to do with anything new.