Jlcpcb and tariffs

jessenator said:
right, my bad. Sorry, I'm not reading the titles apparently... "jlcpcb" doesn't look anything like "tayda"

Welp, time to decide what boards I'm going to need fabbed for the next four years :P
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At this point i’m more curious how the brokerage fees will work out. My biggest order has been about 60 pcs from jlc and think it ended up being about 40$ with the slow option shipping. I can deal with paying double for products. But 30$ brokerage fees etc on top are going to make small orders pointless.
 
Locrian99 said:
At this point i’m more curious how the brokerage fees will work out. My biggest order has been about 60 pcs from jlc and think it ended up being about 40$ with the slow option shipping. I can deal with paying double for products. But 30$ brokerage fees etc on top are going to make small orders pointless.
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I doubt you'll be seeing brokerage fees on orders like that. I think I've only had the "no customs duties but brokerage fees anyway" things once, and only with UPS, and it was on a ~$500 order.
 
CheapSuitG said:
I feel like there should be an auctioneer doing the play by play on this.
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Did you see the man in charge before announcing all other tariffs were paused said on his social media app (which wtf our president has his own social media app). Now is the time to buy! I swear you couldnt make this shit up.
 
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vigilante398 said:
A fair point, yup. I would hope the brokerage fees would scale proportionally to the customs duties paid, so they would be negligible on small shipments, but that may not be the case.
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Ive been trying to figure this out, from google etc. dhl’s website says brokerage fees are included in shipping but then theres reddits etc saying a min charge of 17$. I think it unfortunately is going to be a situation where we just have to wait and see if someone gets stuck with somethjng silly or something small. I suppose if you get stuck with a huge one you could just refuse to pay it and the shipment gets returned?

I do think this is going to make me look at amplify parts or maybe the new tayda option for faceplates.

Edit: amplify fun not amplify parts.
 
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Locrian99 said:
Ive been trying to figure this out, from google etc. dhl’s website says brokerage fees are included in shipping but then theres reddits etc saying a min charge of 17$. I think it unfortunately is going to be a situation where we just have to wait and see if someone gets stuck with somethjng silly or something small. I suppose if you get stuck with a huge one you could just refuse to pay it and the shipment gets returned?

I do think this is going to make me look at amplify parts or maybe the new tayda option for faceplates.

Edit: amplify fun not amplify parts.
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Yup if you refuse to pay it the shipment gets returned. I haven't really looked into this for the US yet, but one of my Canadian customers recently bought a $400 pedal from me and UPS was trying to charge him something like $150 in brokerage fees. He ended up calling the customs office himself and going through a process to "self-clear" the package. So he still had to pay customs duties, but not a brokerage fee, because he was acting as the broker himself, he did the paperwork for the clearance.

If it becomes something shipping carriers start trying to milk, I'll definitely be looking to do the clearance process myself.
 
Locrian99 said:
dhl’s website says brokerage fees are included in shipping but then theres reddits etc saying a min charge of 17$.
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From one of my recent bills:

MERCHANDISE PROCESS 32.71
DUTY TAX PROCESSING 17.00

I'm assuming the duty tax processing fee is the minimum fee, and the merchandise process fee varies depending on the contents of the shipment.
 
vigilante398 said:
Yup if you refuse to pay it the shipment gets returned. I haven't really looked into this for the US yet, but one of my Canadian customers recently bought a $400 pedal from me and UPS was trying to charge him something like $150 in brokerage fees. He ended up calling the customs office himself and going through a process to "self-clear" the package. So he still had to pay customs duties, but not a brokerage fee, because he was acting as the broker himself, he did the paperwork for the clearance.

If it becomes something shipping carriers start trying to milk, I'll definitely be looking to do the clearance process myself.
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do you have regular USPS shipping as an option? I've never had a problem with the government run services, it's the private ones that rake you over the coals
 
Nostradoomus said:
do you have regular USPS shipping as an option? I've never had a problem with the government run services, it's the private ones that rake you over the coals
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I ussuallt use the global standard line or whatever the slow boat is called. But im not sure who actually delivers it. Usps never delivers to my door, and theres always a blue box on my porch. Im assuming its a different carrier?
 
I've only used Global Standard once but it was handled by YunExpress (no clue) until it reached the USA, then it was handed over to USPS.

Mine was delivered by the usual mail carrier.
 
Nostradoomus said:
do you have regular USPS shipping as an option? I've never had a problem with the government run services, it's the private ones that rake you over the coals
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When I ship things I absolutely have that option, but my customers typically complain about the speed so they spend a little more rather than having it take 3 weeks to get to Canada, 6-8 weeks to get to Europe, and the record so far of 3 months to get to Australia.
 
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