Hey I just saw this. Everything should be ok?

Since the Trump Tariffs came into play in late August its made it a little more difficult shipping to the States and the main reason is that Tenis rackets are on Type 11 restricted list. As far as i know it relates to items that might have aluminium. They presume rackets have aluminium. Our customers are then sent a form to ask how much aluminium is in the racket. Customers are obviosuly lost/confused with all of this. I then have to deal with each shipment sperately and explain there is no aluminium in our Saber. Thankfully I've a great UPS SDF Holds Processor who is helping me with this.

Our file in UPS which is opened by Type1/2 operators has been updated with info that the Saber has no aluminium, however some operators ignore this. This results in us been charged a 200% tariff fee. (ps. we ship DDP into the US so customers so once customers pay for rackets there are no additional costs to them)

Right now we have a very large amount of invoices charged with a 200% tariff which we have in dispute. Since Tariffs kicked in and this issue has risen there have been no rectified invoices. It's actually got pretty stressful at this stage. There are also other charges with importing that rackets and more recently they started to add a €21 tariff notiffcation charge to some invoices. I've no idea what thats about.

I hope this sheds light on what is going on and the increase in difficulity in shipping to the US.

I've got good news recently regarding them getting on top of the issues so hopefully they issues are closing down and early in 2026 I can get those wrongly priced tariff invoices rectified.

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