Shipping to US (from UK or anywhere else) after 29 August...?

[HerbertTarkel]

Hmm. A 7:4 majority ruling is not an unqualified success - 4 judges ruled that the IEEPA could support the tariffs and that the plaintiffs couldn't make a strong enough case against them. It will be VERY interesting when this gets to the US Supreme Court.
I think I'm going to need more popcorn. 

Popcorn, indeed 

[Westfalia Chris]

Please keep it focused on the tariff issues at hand and solutions that may arise.

[zemjw]

to bring it back on topic, got this in a Foundry email just now. They talk about an "additional invoice", not sure how that will work

You may have already received an email or seen our social media posts about the recent changes to customs charges when importing to the US, but in case you missed it we have a more detailed write up that you can find here.

"For the time being, what this means is that after you place an order with us we will send you an additional invoice to cover the 10% US customs charges that will need to be paid before your order is shipped.

their full statement is at https://www.wargamesfoundry.com/blogs/news/new-usa-import-customs-duties

[Mammoth miniatures]

I've reinstated US orders for mammoth miniatures, with a 10% fee calculated at checkout. If this whole thing gets revoked in a few days/weeks/years, I'll remove the additional fee.

[Rick]

I've reinstated US orders for mammoth miniatures, with a 10% fee calculated at checkout. If this whole thing gets revoked in a few days/weeks/years, I'll remove the additional fee.

Sadly, it won't be. I say this before knowing which way the US Supreme Court will decide as the US Govt seem committed to tariffs and they have at least 2 other, slower, legal mechanisms to use if this one fails. One way or another the tariffs are here to stay, until at least the end of this administration, so we'll just have to deal with them.

[JonGZG]

I've reinstated US orders for mammoth miniatures, with a 10% fee calculated at checkout. If this whole thing gets revoked in a few days/weeks/years, I'll remove the additional fee.

Yes, the RM system now seems to be working for me too, I've done a dummy test order this morning and it correctly calculated the 10% tariff plus a 50p RM "handling fee"; it appears that the tariff is calculated ONLY on the goods value, and not on the shipping cost as had been mentioned in a few posts above. I'll be re-instating US sales shortly once a few adjustments have been made at the store checkout, probably have them up and running again in around a week.

A question to the other small manufacturers on here - when filling in the online Customs documentation for RM packages, do you separate and list EVERY single item in the order, with individual weights and values, or just lump it all together as a single item of (eg) "Metal models" with a total weight and value? In the past, I've always taken the latter (simpler) route and have never had it queried or causing any problems, but I'm wondering if the new system will demand more detail of the individual contents? Interested to hear what others are doing with this...?

Jon (GZG)

[Mammoth miniatures]

A question to the other small manufacturers on here - when filling in the online Customs documentation for RM packages, do you separate and list EVERY single item in the order, with individual weights and values, or just lump it all together as a single item of (eg) "Metal models" with a total weight and value?

Jon (GZG)

I've always gone this route - so if an order has several figures and a book, i'll put it as two items, being "toy soldiers" and "book" and that's always worked for me. I am however a few rungs lower on the small business ladder so don't take that as any kind of proof about what's correct.

[Fighting15s]

A question to the other small manufacturers on here - when filling in the online Customs documentation for RM packages, do you separate and list EVERY single item in the order, with individual weights and values, or just lump it all together as a single item of (eg) "Metal models" with a total weight and value? In the past, I've always taken the latter (simpler) route and have never had it queried or causing any problems, but I'm wondering if the new system will demand more detail of the individual contents? Interested to hear what others are doing with this...?

Jon (GZG)

I do it by number of packs at each pack price and weight (approx). I decided to break it down more carefully for the EU, although I'm not currently sending there. I thought the EU was more likely to pick apart an order and question it.

I still have no joy with ordinary Click and Drop about sending to the US. I checked moments ago and service to the US was still suspended. I don't want to use the basic Send option from Royal Mail, which is set up for duty paid delivery, because I like having nice monthly tax invoices for collections and fror tracked UK services.

Update: Click and Drop was accepting US orders this evening. As GZG finds, it doesn't apparently add 10% to postage or stated delivery charges.