Should I expect to pay Tariffs on Tayda Orders?

Anybody dealt with tariff charges from eBay purchases?

I wasn't sure if I should post this question here or in the JLC tariff thread
 
Harry Klippton said:
Anybody dealt with tariff charges from eBay purchases?

I wasn't sure if I should post this question here or in the JLC tariff thread
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I've been very hesitant. I got some stuff from Poland early on that didn't get hit but nothing since.
Some eBay sellers are including tarrifs already. It is noted in the shipping area. Some just won't ship to the US still.
I did order $70 of small plastic parts for work from a supply house in the UK(fixing the euro-tools they give me). Paid ~$30 in shipping and $50 in tariffs and fees.
 
jwin615 said:
I've been very hesitant. I got some stuff from Poland early on that didn't get hit but nothing since.
Some eBay sellers are including tarrifs already. It is noted in the shipping area. Some just won't ship to the US still.
I did order $70 of small plastic parts for work from a supply house in the UK(fixing the euro-tools they give me). Paid ~$30 in shipping and $50 in tariffs and fees.
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I made a comparable offer on a similar item from a US seller instead. Sooner or later I'm gonna get stung
 
I was gonna place an order for 20 125Bs and the pots I posted in the mailbox thread yesterday. Shipping and orange fuck tax would have been $124
Previously, this would've been around $30.


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I can source the Hammond powder coated 1590N1s, but the cheapest I've found is about $13 a pop


As for eBay, I only really ever order surplus parts from Ukraine, Croatia, and Bulgaria and have only noticed a $1-2 increase in shipping fees
 
To pile on with experiences, recently got an order from Tayda, about 150 for the parts and 50 for shipping a it did some really quickly though. Certainly has me trying to get more parts from US vendors, but sometimes Tayda is the only source I could find some things and the drilling/UV printing knowledge base is robust.
 
I've been holding off on anything for Tayda now thanks to the tariffs. In the last few orders I've done here's how it has broken down for me:

Potentiometers and some ICs: Stomp Box Parts
Most any IC or transistor: Mouser
Most through hole parts: Tayda is still cheaper when including tariffs and shipping.

As far as enclosures, I've been holding off hoping that the tariffs will be declared illegal and I can place a large enclosure order from Tayda.. if not LMS will be getting a large order from me as they're the most reasonable when it comes to price + shipping.

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And for those wondering about PCBs, JLPCB is still cheaper than any US-based alternative that I have found.
 
Robert said:
I paid $750 in tariffs on parts this weekend that were manufactured in the USA... and I'm in the USA.
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I’m probably missing something but I thought we only pay tariff charges for goods coming from other countries? Pretty much as a penalty for not spending our money within the US. I notice some parts on Mouser have no tariffs and some do. I figured the parts made here would be exempt and the ones being imported had the tarrifs. Just curious to know how US produced components would be affected?
 
BrainDrain said:
I’m probably missing something but I thought we only pay tariff charges for goods coming from other countries?
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I had to purchase the (USA manufactured) components from the USA, then ship them to China to have them soldered to PCBs.

When the final PCBs were shipped to me they were considered a "Made in China" assembly and tariffs were charged for the entire value, including all USA sourced components.... since technically, they were coming from China this time.
 
Even if something is “made” in the US, doesn’t mean everything it’s made out of also came from the US.
For example you could buy enclosures from a US company, but we don’t mine much bauxite here anymore. So the aluminum is probably coming from overseas…
 
I think Robert's point is that they double-dipped (after a fashion: us-made and non-tariff parts, then get the tariff applied anyway, because itemization is nigh impossible for the little guy)
 
Ginsly said:
Non-Tayda, but... YAYYYY $17 shipping/fees on a single $15 pcb from Canada now. Absolutely not DEFX's fault of course, they have to lump it all in. What a truly awesome, necessary thing to put your citizens through! 🇺🇸

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Dino is actually really good about refunding any extra money that wasn’t used to pay for the shipping. Very honest guy. A couple times I didn’t even realize he did until weeks later. I think he just does it like this because some of the PCBs are pretty large and he doesn’t wanna come up short for supplies and shipping charges at the post office. Easier to just refund some extra later on. The shipping has always been a bit pricey though. Understandable seeing as it’s coming from out of the country and he always ships everything in a sturdy box. No envelopes. Considering how expensive and rare some of the pedals are that he offers projects for, I feel it’s still totally worth it. Ordering a few PCBs at a time is probably the best way to go with how he has the rates set. About 6 -7 PCBs used to cost around $30 shipping and now it’s about $50 with the 🍊 tariff. And as most people already know he puts a lot of time into tracing and reverse engineering the circuits. Nice guy and always responds to quick questions about a build too. I actually just ordered a bunch last night trying to avoid the tariff increase. 😂
 
pricklyrobot said:
Even if something is “made” in the US, doesn’t mean everything it’s made out of also came from the US.
For example you could buy enclosures from a US company, but we don’t mine much bauxite here anymore. So the aluminum is probably coming from overseas
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That I understand. Companies do it all the time. Buy parts from China. Assemble it here and call it Made In USA. But that doesn’t mean we the consumers pay tariffs directly on the product they make. The company pays the tariffs for the components they bought from another country and eventually adds it to the cost and we end up paying it in the end anyways. Just not directly. What Robert was saying I totally understand now. Taking US goods and shipping them to china turns them into “Chinese goods” when they return.
 
Robert said:
I had to purchase the (USA manufactured) components from the USA, then ship them to China to have them soldered to PCBs.

When the final PCBs were shipped to me they were considered a "Made in China" assembly and tariffs were charged for the entire value, including all USA sourced components.... since technically, they were coming from China this time.
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Makes total sense now. Thanks for teaching me something new. ✌🏻 All of this craziness can’t end soon enough.
 
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