Should I expect to pay Tariffs on Tayda Orders?

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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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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An australian is generally up about $22usd for 3 or more $8 pcbs from PPCB, and we dont even have that tariff mess.
(Not a complaint Robert, just an observation)
 
Tayda’s pretty much my last resort now. CE Dist, StompBox Parts, ❤️ My Switches, Mouser, and DigiKey are my go-tos for pedal and amp parts now.
 
KR Sound said:
Tayda’s pretty much my last resort now. CE Dist, StompBox Parts, ❤️ My Switches, Mouser, and DigiKey are my go-tos for pedal and amp parts now.
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oooh, I didn't even know about CE. I'll have to remember that.

I tend to place a couple very large orders a year and honestly the biggest advantage of Tayda for me is how fast I can navigate their website. The idea of needing to order all my basic caps and resistors from Mouser sounds awful. SBP is also great - they get all of my knob business and anything they have that Tayda doesn't.

I'm as annoyed about tariffs as anyone, but I guess I've assumed that even with the tariffs, Tayda would still be my cheapest option. Even if their price advantage got erased, it seems like if I had to get my Tayda order from three other places, the additional shipping might be worse than the tariffs.

Also a factor is that whenever I feel like someone in authority is trying to manipulate me into a particular course of action my instinct is to do the opposite.
 
Erik S said:
oooh, I didn't even know about CE. I'll have to remember that.
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CE Distribution looks to be yet another name for Antique Electronic Supply/Amplified Parts... same exact inventory as far as I can tell. AES and AP are finally merging, I wonder if CE will remain.
 
You guys are being a bit mean. Trump is trying his hardest to make America great again and all you can do is bitch. I was about to say "but what I don't understand is..." then realised it was superfluous. He has imposed 10% tariffs on Australia but the US has a "trade surplus" with Australia. And I put that in inverted commas because the term trade surplus is essentially meaningless. It doesn't mean countries are "treating you very badly". You don't get nothing in return for that money.

The stupidity is immense. Breathtaking. If he keeps this up the entire world is definitely heading for recession. Brilliant!
 
derevaun said:
The cool thing about their announcement is that they say why there were two in the first place:
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At its founding, Amplified Parts was created to use emerging marketing tools and attempt to reach a new demographic of users
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So, I take it the word "antique" didn't test well with young people? Ampified did though. Basically the same reason Poochie exists.

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HamishR said:
You guys are being a bit mean. Trump is trying his hardest to make America great again and all you can do is bitch. I was about to say "but what I don't understand is..." then realised it was superfluous. He has imposed 10% tariffs on Australia but the US has a "trade surplus" with Australia. And I put that in inverted commas because the term trade surplus is essentially meaningless. It doesn't mean countries are "treating you very badly". You don't get nothing in return for that money.

The stupidity is immense. Breathtaking. If he keeps this up the entire world is definitely heading for recession. Brilliant!
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Australia shut US beef out of the country for 20 years and slow walked other import restrictions bureaucratically, including restricting US-owned businesses in ways that AUS businesses weren't restricted. Tarriffs are a small corner of a lot of international trade issues and sometimes they are used as tools to address other issues. It would be great if the story was as simple as you present it, but alas it's a big old goofy world. Just sayin.'

Music equipment employs a lot of stuff that was manufactured for other industries (pedal and amp builders have always counted on electronic components intended for medical/military equipment). We've always been passengers on someone else's ride. That won't change anytime soon.
 
I've got a real life example finally for a company in Switzerland selling pedals to the U.S. after the end of the 800 USD de minimis.
The Swiss Post only accept to ship to the U.S. if we pre pay the custom fee. Here is a breakdown:
  • Pedal is sold 179 USD
    • Shipping: 34.30 USD
    • Customs (39%): 69.81 USD
    • Disbursement Fee (2%): 2.98 USD (I have no idea what that is)
    • PDDP (Postal Delivered Duty Paid) Fee: 12.01 USD
Total since September 22nd: 119.70 USD vs 26.43 USD before August 29th.

Adding the PayPal fee, 12 USD and that gives you a 130 USD cost to sell a 179 USD pedal to a U.S. customer :)

Out of the 49 USD left, I still donate 5% of the selling price to a local food bank (that's on me), that's 8.95 USD.
You've 40.05 USD left to get your PCB, coffee, components, pizza, parts, beer, enclosure, etc.

In 2025 so far, the U.S. represents 18.45% of our customers.

We are doing it for this month for fun and then we'll change our system, either increase the price, charge shipping, no idea, but we will change something for sure.

The tough part is that customers from most countries already pay some sort of fee at delivery themselves, and that's just how it is. Anytime I buy something from abroad here in Switzerland, I have to pay a custom fee to the brokerage and then the Swiss VAT. That is just how it is. I've never thought the seller should cover these.

If we decide to absorb the cost for the U.S. customers, why not absorb it for the rest of the world?
I'm not sobbing, this is a hobby and never made money on this, but I can't imagine how companies who do this as a full gig can go through this without trying to find another customer base.

thoughts?
 
Mike52 said:
Australia shut US beef out of the country for 20 years and slow walked other import restrictions bureaucratically, including restricting US-owned businesses in ways that AUS businesses weren't restricted. Tarriffs are a small corner of a lot of international trade issues and sometimes they are used as tools to address other issues. It would be great if the story was as simple as you present it, but alas it's a big old goofy world. Just sayin.'

Music equipment employs a lot of stuff that was manufactured for other industries (pedal and amp builders have always counted on electronic components intended for medical/military equipment). We've always been passengers on someone else's ride. That won't change anytime soon.
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I’m sure it’s not so simple. I also don’t think his intentions are so simple. In announcing tariffs he also mentioned post poning tariffs on companies that promise investments into the us. Who can do this the largest companies. You’re small start up isnt going to be able to build a factory. What qualifies as an investment? Those who donate to his cause? Those who say what he wants them to say? He has shown through pardons, appointments, threats of fcc licenses, lawsuits, now were getting prosecutions. We’ll end up with an oligarchy with wealth concentrated to those who remain loyal to this man who clearly wants a US that is ran like one of his ill fated casinos.
 
Locrian99 said:
I’m sure it’s not so simple. I also don’t think his intentions are so simple. In announcing tariffs he also mentioned postponing tariffs on companies that promise investments into the us. Who can do this? The largest companies. Your small start up isn't going to be able to build a factory. What qualifies as an investment? Those who donate to his cause? Those who say what he wants them to say? He has shown through pardons, appointments, threats of FCC licenses, lawsuits; now we're getting prosecutions. We’ll end up with an oligarchy with wealth concentrated to those who remain loyal to this man who clearly wants a US that is ran like one of his ill-fated casinos.
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His intentions are simple - make America great again. How do we do that? What's the biggest difference between the post war boom and now? "Made in America" So we'll bring production back to the US. But what his plan doesn't address is the reason production moved overseas to begin with - a softening post war economy and CEO's who did what they could to continue their own lifestyles, at the expense of the employees. And then the cycle continued for 5 decades because no one wants to face the hard truth that outsourcing isn't sustainable. The irony is of course Trump is one of the fat cats who lines his own pockets. But this is a PR move to appeal to the sensibilities of the people who elected him and it's a way to wave his dick around.

He doesn't have an end goal, other than to make money and satisfy his own ego. That's all this is anymore - a power trip, not a strategy game.
 
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