Japan Post Suspends Mail to US

[bukwessul]

as someone who works at a us mfg, and is directly involved for green-fielding a 200,000 sf facility (thats actually been in the planning stage for 2 years), its typically 5-7 years to get a facility up and running. Just a fact. and thats with an existing business doing well over 7m a month. all our equipment went sky high in cost and its absolutely going to pass down to the consumer, we aren't eating it. sorry. but thats the bare bones reality. right now.. not terrible at the consumer level. but its coming very, very soon across all industries.

I appreciate your candid response. If we learn anything, it's to be upfront with ourselves and others.
Politics is more like a sports team and less like reality - which boils down to simply being honest and up front & treat people well.

 

[m in sc]

my point is not politics, its just the business world we are in. The cause is another story but I'm not talking about that.
Good friend of mine up in the NC mts, I saw yesterday, drove up 2 hours to see him after a big surgery. His wife was telling me of the price hikes they are seeing in dollar general, wal-mart, etc, from Saturday shopping, and the un-availability of stuff they were starting to see on amazon now, and so on. Like said, its coming, its here. I don't shop at wal mart, ever, or DG, so I'm not exposed to it there. ( havent shopped at a wal-mart since the 90s actually) And they are absolutely as right wing as they come, and I love em to death. But also, politics never ONCE came up all day. 0.02

 

[FizzBuzz3000]

Yeah, we're in for a long haul that's going to be beneficial to no one long term, and will leave the US worse off than prior to the unneeded rebellion against the whole world. Many, if not all, former tariffs were not used to completely blanket all exports of a given country to America which the new ones mostly do. Just a few specific exports, here and there to protect local business from being flooded out. Many also included exceptions to that rule as some countries are the sole exporter of valuable goods (like electronics, engine components, regional produce, minerals, ect.) and most of those are gone now, with sweeping tariffs that just blindly cover everything. There are still some exceptions, yes, but there are far less now. And it's unrealistic for now that America will get any benefit from this and be deemed an unreliable trade partner... I suppose that will lower prices as no one will want to buy the products America sells if our trade policy is mostly "feels-based" or one-sided to favor only America.

His wife was telling me of the price hikes they are seeing in dollar general, wal-mart, etc, from Saturday shopping, and the un-availability of stuff they were starting to see on amazon now, and so on.
(...) But also, politics never ONCE came up all day.

I would say this is politics, as there is a very political (even if very dumb-sounding) reasoning/explanation to why things are getting more expensive and becoming less available. Economies, business, and politics are tightly woven together. There is no real way to separate them without one overpowering the other that could lead to extremely bad situations. But to go further with this is well outside the scope of this thread/sub-forum so I'm ending it here.


Maybe it's just me, but a thread lock would probably be in order to ensure this thread doesn't derail too hard than it already has. Point further discussion to the Debate Room sub-forum would be my action.

 

[m in sc]

you could argue ethanol in fuel is political. the reason there is ethanol in fuel can be discussed w out being 'political'. we discuss the result of the cause, ie, the effect. here's cause and effect. I was strictly referring to the effects . thats it.

 

[George S.]

my point is not politics, its just the business world we are in. The cause is another story but I'm not talking about that.
Good friend of mine up in the NC mts, I saw yesterday, drove up 2 hours to see him after a big surgery. His wife was telling me of the price hikes they are seeing in dollar general, wal-mart, etc, from Saturday shopping, and the un-availability of stuff they were starting to see on amazon now, and so on. Like said, its coming, its here. I don't shop at wal mart, ever, or DG, so I'm not exposed to it there. ( havent shopped at a wal-mart since the 90s actually) And they are absolutely as right wing as they come, and I love em to death. But also, politics never ONCE came up all day. 0.02

Hmmm… So they are having price hikes, product unavailability, and they’re very right wing and they never brought up politics.

I’ll bet a couple years when gas went up 10cents and eggs increased, they screamed. Tell me they wear a red cap without telling me they wear a red cap.

 

[m in sc]

they actually never do. if it comes up its very polite, because we are adults about it. we can have civilized conversation and have for years, but never gets testy. ever. and yes thats rare these days. it came up because she saw what I paid I tarrifs and she told me how it was affecting the prices on her stuff. thats it,. honestly

 

[pinehiker]

My windscreen has been released from customs purgatory!

 

[George S.]

they actually never do. if it comes up its very polite, because we are adults about it. we can have civilized conversation and have for years, but never gets testy. ever. and yes thats rare these days. it came up because she saw what I paid I tarrifs and she told me how it was affecting the prices on her stuff. thats it,. honestly

I wasn’t doubting you.

 

[dmonkey]

This morning the Supreme Court of the United States released a decision on "Learning Resources, Inc. v. Trump (24-1287)", ruling the recent tariff changes unconstitutional as they are without Congressional approval.

https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25pdf/24-1287_4gcj.pdf

Changes to the tariff situation can be expected as a result of this, but it still might be a while before we see Japan Post resume shipping parcels to the USA.

I've definitely got a cart saved on Webike lol

 

[FizzBuzz3000]

This morning the Supreme Court of the United States released a decision on "Learning Resources, Inc. v. Trump (24-1287)", ruling the recent tariff changes unconstitutional as they are without Congressional approval.

https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25pdf/24-1287_4gcj.pdf

Changes to the tariff situation can be expected as a result of this, but it still might be a while before we see Japan Post resume shipping parcels to the USA.

I've definitely got a cart saved on Webike lol

Unfortunately the guy already has a global 10% tariff already chambered in via section 122 of the 1974 Trade act, so we're not out of the woods yet. Granted it's 150 days this tariff can run for (and can only extended by approval from congress), I imagine he's gonna weasel around to ensure he gets his way because he's a raging child.

As a side note, this means some $150 billion USD in tariffs get to be paid back to companies from the federal government, even though none of them directly paid for them and instead passed the tariffs to the end consumers. Free money hack for them.

 

[m in sc]

My company absolutely paid for them and didn't have a price increase... we spent millions on equipment that we got hit on and had to absorb it. However we are very profitable so it was just a less profitable year last year than projected. And that is absolutely an outlier.

But most did for sure. I'm personally out at this point over 1200 bucks. damn right if i can i'll file a claim.

fwiw i did get package from Japan last week. and it had no tariff on it, came thru DHL. and it was over 100 bucks. took 2 mos to get here though. very weird.

 

[dmonkey]

fwiw i did get package from Japan last week. and it had no tariff on it, came thru DHL. and it was over 100 bucks. took 2 mos to get here though. very weird.

For DHL & FedEx the tariff/duty collection emails have come ~2 weeks later for me, so might still be coming. Hopefully not though

MNNTHBX just sent out an email saying the same thing about people getting hit with a "separate tariff charge at roughly 50% of the initial purchase price". The email said they're eating half the fees on the Over Racing items they imported from Japan which they say puts those items at near break-even.

 

[m in sc]

odd... that i havent seen. ive had stuff come from them before and never got one retroactively.