Ordered Part, received bill from FedEx for CBP 2 months later

Yep! 

Thats a bummer. $95 tariff for a $200 part. Ripoff to put it mildly.

Yes, and also as a company that sells internationally, a lot of re-bills to us from FedEx because the customer would not pay it, understandably. 

Yeah I ordered some crank seals for a tm , 45 bucks for the seals - 

Two weeks later I got a bill from fed ex for 45 in tariffs . 100% !!

I don’t understand why I should have to pay a tax when there is not an American made option available 

I thought the EU tariff was 15%? With a 50% on raw steel and aluminum? Seems like they charged you for the raw price, not the finished product price.

Why would an international company get a tariff bill if you are exporting from the USA? Or are you importing stuff for your product?

That was literally every other countries point when they got imposed. Should built the infrastructure first...

yes. I try order from eBay as much as possible because they require seller to display warning if tariff/customs charges will be due upon receipt. I learned the hard way: ordered a set of JIS Impact bits for $10.00 from a seller in Japan to save 50c over another seller with same item in Utah. Japan seller had 2000 positive feedback so trusted it. When bits arrived it was ins some sketchy "Japan post airmail" (basically a business letter envelope with cardboard to protect part). My mail carrier was a little embarrassed to deliver and came to my door showing the postage due because the letter didn't meet criteria for Air mail because it wouldn't go through automated sorting machine. Extra $ due was $18.00! so I refused delivery. 

A friend ordered a trans for his ktm 690 - received a tariff bill for $1600!! 

Soooo much winning!!!

Get ready for more tariffs from France, India, China, Pakistan, any country that's transited the Strait.

That's the point, hypothetically.  The "logic" is to hope someone in the US will invest a boatload of money, to be recovered over a long period of time, to begin manufacturing them in the states at a price point well above $45 so the manufacturer can afford to employ American workers paying an US market wage.  In either event, you pay more for the same product.  

Part of the problem is that shippers like FedEx will add a handling charge for processing and paying the import tariff on your behalf (and I kinda get that). But that is sometimes considerably more than the tariff itself.

And he told you that the other countries would pay…

Did you our your supplier clear these documents (did you have to fill anything out prior to you receiving the item?) This item being completely made of aluminum it falls under the Section 232 derivative, with an effective rate of %50 applied to the FOB cost (what you paid the item). 

That is unfortunate if the supplier did not disclose any of this to you prior to the order. This tariff has been in place since June of last year at %50. Your beef is with the Supplier if you don`t think you should have to pay it, the MAN is getting his $$ either way. 

It's killing some of the vendors I work with in the restoration business. I do old Yamaha RDs and BMW airheads: many parts are only available from overseas suppliers and have never been produced in the US. It was already hard to make any profit (my labor rate prob averages about $6.50/hr) but now it is impossible. I'll restore my last Daytona Special this year and then I'm done. We will see what happens now that the Supreme Court has ruled most tariffs were illegally applied, but already getting anything back is in doubt because this administration just shoots from the hip on everything, so there are incomplete records behind the tariffs they've already collected. 

The tariffs help you stop buying fancy foreign parts so you keep your money for filling your jugs with 4.5$ a gallon gas.

Say thanx.

We've gotten a bunch of these. Got one for $1100 in March on a $1600 bearing order from a distributor in France back in September. They calculated the tarriffs as if the bearings were made in France, despite them being made in Japan... This whole thing is a giant mess. 

Passenger pegs???? Wtf...?? 

Almost a 50% sales tax to the US Treasury and the tariff processor.

I got an unexpected $1500 tariff bill from FedEx. I’m not paying it and they sent me to collections. Now the tariffs were ruled to be illegal. Wtf why would I pay it?

I'm back focused on my RDs currently after 20 years frozen in time. There are a couple of US based businesses that cater to RDs and some other period 2strokes. There's no tariffs and many remanufactured parts fill the gap of NLA basic Yamaha OEM parts. Also, again eBay. I recently did a transaction with a seller in Japan for Yamaha TZR250 1kt parts. There was a prominent notice on his auctions saying all import fees were built into his offerings and pricing + free shipping. Also NO extra fees would be due after purchase. Took a chance and he wasn't lying! He has a deal of some sort with FedEx for international shipping. 3 days after payment, I got a notice that FedEx in Japan had my package and cleared export customs, etc. Kept getting updates daily as it processed out of the country, made it to US, cleared for distribution and on 10th day DELIVERED🙂 Done.

Moral of the story at least for me as a buyer is buy only products shipping within USA (even Chinese sellers have USA warehouses now) but if you go outside USA get every bit of info you can to verify if it will be subject to tariffs or other import BS fees when deciding to buy. YMMV

I ship products to the US. With the shippers I use there is no option for me to know, or pre-pay whatever local charges the US might decide are applicable at point of US entry. Plus, they have changed many times, sometimes day-by-day, depending on the whims of one person. 

If there was an option to pre-pay from my end, why would you think that I would swallow that cost? I wouldn’t, so it, and any handling charges would be added onto my selling price. So, the end user pays regardless. 

I’m so sick of winning that I’m actually really excited to pay more money for literally everything to stick it to the blue hairs.

/sarcasm 

Are you feeling great again? Maybe he’ll send all of this tariff money to Israel and that will make you feel better. 

Buy your parts from USA dealers. The tariffs have already been paid by the distributor (at wholesale prices), it ends up being cheaper for the consumer, and you’re supporting American small businesses.

If it looks like the parts are cheaper to buy abroad, this is why. It’s an illusion.

like I mentioned the guy used FedEx end to end from Narita Japan to Colorado. That means he has a FedEX account and he likely knows how much it will cost him for shipping to USA ahead of time and bakes it into his advertised prices. He wouldn't be able to do this if he wasn't making any profit. Any tariff markup must still fit within his business model. For me as the buyer, I was very pleased there were no gotchas after the fact and it arrived fast. I'm planning to buy from him again as many OEM TZR parts are basically unobtanium

Take the pegs down to a competent machine shop and have 100 sets made. Start selling them. You have a baked in competitive advantage. 

I’m sure like most of us, I was surprised when a tariff bill showed up over a month after ordering graphics from a European company. It wasn’t the amount, it was the unexpectedness of it weeks later. 

I looked up the info fedex was sending because honestly it felt like a scam. They only showed a picture of the package as it was left on the porch, no information about what it was for. After confirming it was legit i paid it, thankfully wasn’t too much. But I think that’s the part that didn’t sit well, it was a really long time before the bill showed up. But, I’m sure there’s lots of red tape. I can’t even imagine what a pita is it for fedex and whomever else. 

And, unfortunately while this is a great company to do business with, when I’m ready for graphics again i will go shopping stateside to avoid this mess. Guess the the theory is working…