it's locked in now.

>locked in
he still hasn’t signed shit it is a preliminary agreement like the ones with China and England that he still hasn’t gotten them to sign
stop taking truth social posts at their word, it is literally propaganda

>>11476827 (OP)
Kek does this retard really think that Vietnamese people are gonna be buying Dodge Raptors and shit? What are they gonna buy from Americans?

>>11476827 (OP)
Kek does this retard really think that Vietnamese people are gonna be buying Ford Raptors and shit? What are they gonna buy from Americans?

>>11476827 (OP)
Most of you voted for this. I know it in my little diseased heart. Have fun.

>>11476849
I didn’t vote because I know it’s all fake and gay. Politics and democracy as a whole is just theater to keep the slaves from attacking their masters because they believe they have some sort of say. Parties are just another division they’ve created amongst the slaves. We’re 100% getting ready for a ground war to thin the cattle out.

>>11476834
I would fuck with you, you seem clear eyed.
This is how trump negotiates, big broad swings till he gets close to what he wants.

>>11476827 (OP)
Fuck off back to your containment zone faggot

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>>11476827 (OP)
0% tariffs on the stuff that I buy right now. No, it is not made in the US.
>>11476841
Foodstuff, probably.

On the bright side, anchor baby Jin is getting deported. Loyalty got him nothing.

>>11476894
He fucks everything up for all of us, he's not negotiating shit.

>>11477061
guess you gotta start making your own toys now huh?

>>11476827 (OP)
>trying to push ugly bloated American SUVs on Vietnam
Kek I bet they are like twice the width of roads there god america is so fucking cringe

>>11476841
>Kek does this retard really think that Vietnamese people are gonna be buying Ford Raptors and shit?
I'm sure Vietnam has just as many men with small penises as America. Ram are about to sell more trucks than they ever have.

>>11477056
Boo-hoo sorry Diosoth but Rogue the Bat is laughing at you from Heaven right now. She went from disgust to mockery of you. It's a shame how far you've fallen.

>>11477444
You forgot to take your trip off again.

>>11476827 (OP)
Trumpy can't stop fucking us over can he?

>>11476827 (OP)
Vietnam doesn't pay the tariffs. He still is living in an alternate reality. Looks like Mattel is fucked either way. They thought they could make cheaper figures in Vietnam than China, but all they got were figures that inexplicably smelled of pencil shavings

>>11477859
he is well aware who pays the tariffs

>>11476827 (OP)
This is called dealing, you start out with something huge and outrageous and then get them to give in and eventually you reach an agreement that serves both parties. you need to quit listening to liberal fake outrage and let the billionaire deal makers that know what the fuck they are doing solve the problems anon.

BBB just past bros. Get ready to pay up more taxes to so the super rich can enjoy their mega billions. Forget Tarrifs, bigger shits are about to hit the fans this summer unless a hurricane gets you first, you'll never know because weather tracking was cut. Kek.

>>11477995
You're a fucking sheep. Lead to the slaughter, smiling the whole time.

>>11478097
Yes yes, I'm a sheep because I DON'T listen to fear mongering biased foreign news all day and night while chanting the death to my own country.

>>11477028
If you have to post this kind of stuff, could you keep it to your circle in Election Twitter

>>11478101
>fear mongering
You mean knowing full well the dipshit in chief is going to fuck us because of his words? Yeah, how dare people listen to him.

>>11477995
This is called coping

There should be a rule to deport these threads back to their native board.

>>11477995
this is called niggerish

Do you have *ANY* idea how much of a win it is to be able to access the vietnam market?
not to mention how it punishes companies for using vietnam as a pass through.
Toy companies will start looking at widespread production instead of producing everything in one spot and sending it all over the world, meaning the quality of our products are gonna go way up and the time to market goes way down, meaning making running changes will be easier than ever.

>>11476841
Rice.

SUVs would do well in Vietnam? Do they have a lot of gas stations?

>>11478612
Also, aren't the streets and parking really narrow?

Remember to keep things on topic
this is /toy afterall

Nothing is signed and approved.
Just because it comes out of his mouth doesn't mean it's mandated, ok?

Unless you walk into Walmart and suddenly see $50 toys that were once $10 then you should panic

>>11478624
>Nothing is signed and approved.
Funny how you keep saying this and we have to keep paying more and more. Almost like you're full of shit.

>>11478882
Oddly, I kinda agree with Trump's statement (he's long forgotten for sure) about owning less.
Neca, McFarlane, Jada, Hasbro, etc. are shooting out too many toys.
McFarlane is pumping out monthly and its too much.
Hasbro is just price gouging its fans.
I'd be happy with visiting the toy aisle every quarter instead of weekly....

>>11478907
Stores won't be stocking anything anymore at this rate. Or toy aisles will be brought down to two eight foot sections and that'll be that.

>>11478882
>Funny how you keep saying this
Do you have mod powers?
How do you know I'm the same person

>>11476827 (OP)
Holy shit this guy is such a fucking retard.
>Yay we opened the markets to Vietnam so we can trade with them!!
>Ermmm I mean we opened the markets so the companies me and my friends are invested in can make a killing
Also what fucking money does Vietnam have? Isn't it a third world country? Its like when Clinton sold us out with the China deal where we bought a bunch of Chinese shit but the Chinese had no money to buy American shit.

>>11477062
Nta but I would love to make wooden toys and paint them. My job site just closed down so maybe I should learn wood working with all the free time I'll have.

>>11476827 (OP)
>everyone now has to pay a fortune for dollartree crap
>we get to sell billions worth of quality American made goods to the biggest economy in South East Asia
TOP KEK

>>11479342
Americans can't stop fucking themselves in the ass for daddy Trump and his golf courses hub

>>11477995
It doesn't serve the us consumer

>>11477230
Except Vietnam is a fairly poor country.

>>11476827 (OP)
You voted for this magatard nignog, accept your responsibility. But muh illegals right? Enjoy your AI prison.

>>11478584
Never seem such copium except when the democrooks lost.

>>11478624
So does this mean that we need to 3d print our own toys now? Because that would be fucking great if we burgers got off our fat lazy ass and got some talent for once. We've become such looser coomsoomers.

>>11480226
Consumer 3D printing still has a long way to go.
I did PLA printing for about a year and the best I can tell you is it's good for dioramas and vehicle making.
Resin printing is best for detail but doesn't last long.
Pla Printers still print shit that looks like 8-bit unless you sand it down and that's a waste of time.

>>11478907
.....you agree with a third generation billionaire who literally shits on golden toilets that it's actually better if YOU owned less?

Maybe just maybe, it would actually be better for everyone else if THEY owned less. You could still go and buy less toys to somehow make yourself feel better, but at least everyone else could get cheaper health care and better education.

>>11478624
>Unless you walk into Walmart and suddenly see $50 toys that were once $10 then you should panic
While it was gradual instead of sudden, that kind of happened already.

>>11481444
sounds like a poor fag problem to me

>>11481449
Pedo.

>>11476827 (OP)
>To Lam

FEET DON'T FAIL ME NAO!

So do 25% Tarrifs from Japan really started on August 1st?

>>11482762
Honestly they'll probably get pushed back.
I'm so tired just fucking do it Trump bring it all down with your autistic obsession with tariffs I don't even care any more its like he has to fucking farm attention every single month with this shit.

>>11482762
maybe
who knows
de minimis is still in effect for every country other than china though

Everything will become terrible. You will be scammed in every way possible. You will pay everything for your little plastic men. Your financial reserves will be sucked dry by parasitic corporations and chaotic, unwieldy government. It's time to escape this hobby now.

>>11482812
Actually in the tax bill that was passed last week it will be removed effective 2027 for all countries.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/1/text

SEC. 70531. MODIFICATIONS TO DE MINIMIS ENTRY PRIVILEGE FOR COMMERCIAL
SHIPMENTS.
(b) Repeal of Commercial Shipment Exception.--
(1) Repeal.--Section 321(a)(2) of such Act (19 U.S.C.
1321(a)(2)) is amended by striking ``of this Act, or'' and all
that follows through ``subdivision (2); and'' and inserting
``of this Act; and''.
(2) Conforming repeal.--Subsection (c) of such section 321,
as added by subsection (a) of this section, is repealed.
(3) Effective date.--The amendments made by this subsection
shall take effect on July 1, 2027.

>>11483129
Impeach this fucker Jesus. The country will spend more money enforcing it than what we make

>>11482924
>>11483129
>>11483282
Americans really do deserve this royal ass fucking from the orange baby.

>>11476834
Anon...

>>11483129
This honestly might push me into just moving out of the country. Fuck this bullshit.

>>11483336
Oh that'd be a laugh to see you retards struggle adapting outside of your hugbox shit hole.

>>11483312
Ffffffuuuuuuck

>>11483282
Shit there isn't even a way to properly enforce it. This is all so stupid and pointless.

>>11483336
Please do, you won't be missed. Imagine being such an immature piss baby that having to pay more to import your little plastic figurines causes you to move to another country. But hey, I'm fine with shipping all the weak willed, slack jawed, spineless faggots to Canada.

Damn. Imagine simping for Donald Trump.

>>11483341
>Paying more than double the price for things is ok because it owns the libs.
You let the country get ruined because black and trans people make you slightly uncomfortable, you're a retard and deserve the third world country you're about to live in. You did this to yourself.

Damn, imagine hating Israel.

>>11483349
Having to pay more for little plastic army men isn't ruining the country. Sorry that I'm not clutching my pearls and losing my shit because luxury goods no one is forcing me to buy suddenly cost more. The price of gas has dropped significantly and the prices at the grocery store are finally stabilizing again to the point I'm back to paying $3 for toothpaste. So it won't kill me, or you for that matter, if our little plastic army men cost $10 more.

Stop being poor, stop being stupid, and stop being a pearl clutching Karen.

>>11483353
>I'm ok with paying $110 for something that was $40 because toothpaste is now $3 instead of $4

>>11483353
>I'm okay with USAID funding anti American operations over seas to keep Nations unstable resulting in refugees coming to America and driving wages down
>>11483355
Holy Shit stop buying from BBTS

>>11483358
I use zenmarket

>>11483359
You Americans certainly won't be able to use anything once ice cracks down on imports and send back everything you try to buy huh. Trumptards deserve this

>>11483361
Don't manifest that into reality.

>>11483355
I accept your concession. Also, you need to be 18+ to post here.

>>11483353
You are actually insane. We're going to suffer more and you're in your own delusional world.

>>11483366
You're not going to suffer because luxury goods you're not forced to buy are going to be more expensive. Holy shit. Are all of you underage losers who only spend their birthday money on literal toys?

>>11483340
It will likely be the duty of the delivery agents to enforce so they'll need evidence of tariffs paid before delivery. Same as import taxes.

>>11483368
Retard, EVERYTHING will get more expensive. We're just discussing the toy part of it because this is the fucking toy board.

>>11483368
Zoomers are underage losers anon. They come here to screencap and share epic stories for tik tok yet find nothing which is why it's so funny to see them cry.

>>11483370
Right, that's why gas has gone down in price, and why my groceries are cheaper. Shut the fuck up you fear mongering ninny.

>>11483369
>low iq Americans enforcing import of goods

that won't end well

I hope this means prices for the rest of us will go down, or at least they'll be more availability. Tired of missing out on good mandarake deals. Hopefully they'll hang around a bit longer if a big part of the market has to pay an extra 25%.

>>11483375
It's gonna be kino seeing Americans share media posts crying because they can't enjoy the hobby anymore with a steady supply of capeshit marvel legends

>>11483373
Why would I care about gas and groceries when I dont own a car and been eating takeout for the last 30 years?

>>11483377
At least you're honest. Mom and dad must be proud.

>>11483376
Funko and marvel legends are going to be the only things we're allowed to have soon enough.

>>11483376
That's why I posted >>11482762 to stir up the hornets nest.
Absolute cinema.

>>11483378
They are both dead, but thanks. They were.

>>11476849
The Pussycat Dolls really said it best. I don't know why people thought MAGA (which is a perfectly reasonable goal) would just change things to benefit the US without any hiccups or turbulence. This is what they voted for, and if they don't pussy out, in 10 or 20 years it'll be worth it.

>>11483393
>it'll be worth it.
Now this is cope

>>11483432
It'll only be worth it if you don't go homeless and die of super mega cancer gout aids on the street.

>>11483340
They have a lot of time to figure something out. And don’t forget Democrats wanted to get rid of it too, they were trying to get Biden to pass something for it when he was still in office. Can forsee a lot of things in this bill getting rapidly undone after his presidency but this unfortunately probably won’t be one of them. I’m just going to just start to scale back on what I buy I guess after next year.

no more hobbies for the American, you will only spend money on food and utilities.

>>11483474
But that's actually a good thing because it heckin owns the libs

>>11483474
And LGBT programs to sterilise children and defend Israel
>>11483478
don't you have a war to wage against Palestine? go die for israel

>>11483479
Dying for Isreal to own the libs

>>11483481
buying the gay doll to own the conservicucks

>>11483474
It's called not being poor. If you can't afford your food and housing, you probably shouldn't be wasting your money on toys. Just saying.

>>11483340
Free trade was one of the best parts of living in these shit holes of the west and now we can't even have that because we have to nickel and dime our citizens to fucking send money to Israel. I'm so sick of this I just wanna buy my toys fuck!!!!

>>11483488
>free trade

that comes from Americans wanting freedom, you still have it, everyone in the mean time surpassed you and hate the fag values you promote and low quality life style

about time to set up a P.O. Box in Canada I guess

>>11483312
It is stunning to me that this is what passes for a professional letter from the White House. I know Trump is a boomer so he writes everything like a Facebook post but surely he has someone on staff who can make things look more presentable than this? I would get fired in an instant for sending an email that looked like this to a business partner.

>>11483340
>Shit there isn't even a way to properly enforce it

With the exception being removed for every country, it's going to be easier to enforce because package scanner will be able to just do simple math. If there's a mistake in what is calculated it's going to be on you/shipper to file a claim.

>>11483506
We live in cursed times

Jin "I lie about dead cats" Saotome is on the Epstein list

>>11483506
>But Trump is godjesus

They literally died from COVID to suck his ass, nothing he does deters them. Even the MAGA opposed to the OBBB are a minority, most will sacrifice their health coverage to TRIGUR LIBRULZ

>>11483493
>Gay bad cuz bad translation of old book sez so
>Feeding people different than me to gators is good, actually

The bible is a lie & conservatives are mentally ill

>>11483601
>>11483605
>>11483621
You know killing your cats isn’t very nice Pedosoth

>>11483483
Israel will never be white, even if they act like Nazi Germany

>>11483627
And your cats will never not be dead you 50 year old mentally ill future school shooter in Indiana.

>>11483506
That's because his way of speaking is part and parcel to how he gets his business done, for better or worse.

Dead cats eliminated.

So question: would 5ktoys and gundamit preorders make you pay tariffs if de minimus didn't exist? Or would it only be sites like amiami, madarake, etc?

>>11483979
it depends on the carrier or postal service agreement the retailer is using to either have you deal with it on your end when you receive the package or they will charge you as part of your purchase for collections by CBP.

Some stores may elect to charge you just in case you abandon the package by refusing to pay customs fees. The retailer doesn't want to get blacklisted for having lots of returned packages from whatever country. But all this is like 2 years from now for stuff from Japan.

>>11484071
so how are we supposed to know what their setup is? Most stores don't tell you this stuff. They may hint at it by saying stuff like "USA STOCK" vs stuff that doesn't say USA STOCK. But how am I supposed to know if I'm just going to get a bill out of nowhere? Some stores don't even identify what country they are operating in.

>>11484077
if there's no surcharge from the retailer, then you will get the bill from Fedex/UPS/DHL. If it's via postal service, the post office will ask for payment on delivery.

>>11484077

>>11484078
There are stores where you buy something chinese and never get a surcharge or a charge from Fedex/UPS/DHL/USPS.

How do you tell these stores from stores where you will?

Speaking as a Bongistani I'd be happy if Trump annexed this fucking island if he implemented even half of what he's doing for you guys. You don't know how good you have it.

>>11484091
Not sure what you're referring to. You want your toys to be more expensive?

>>11484094
Not particularly but I'd take it if he kicked out all the """refugees""" and stopped any more from coming in.

>>11483506
I was watching japanese news and they are big mad about this. It’s so rude and insulting. America really is the big golem that everyone has to put up with.

>>11484098
Yes, because they're totally hurting you, right?

>>11484078
i don't know what black magic gundamnit is using but i haven't paid any duties on 3 orders since april

>>11484127
I have a kid, and given Sandnigger track records around children, I don't want those fuckers anywhere near me.

>>11484127
General health reasosn

Murica always complain
My brother is legally laboring there with below minimum wage income and still able to send 80% salary home

>>11484131
I thought gundamit has a US warehouse and they ship from there?

>>11484176
if they do, it doesn't appear that way on tracking

>>11484174
A true American. Too bad the retards elected are too immorably bankrupt to realize it.

>>11476827 (OP)
Don't think about what comes after today for it is surely a worse tomorrow.

I don’t even collect toys anymore, for me it’s movie props. I might get a Mezco figure though.

>>11484174
The vast majority of the complaints about prices in the US are from large blue cities (New York, San Francisco, or hell anywhere in Cali) where you pay like $3500 for rent to live in a shoebox, and you buy an $80K SUV and have a $1500 payment for 72 months, and all the retailers have to hike prices and put shit like socks behind bullet-proof glass because of all of the theft and vandalism, it is kind of hard to feel sorry for your ass when you willingly try to live there as a hair dresser making $14 an hour.

>>11484300
Because that's where the majority of people live? Nobody lives in Rural Buttfuckistan and when they do everything is exponentially worse. You don't know what you're talking about.

>>11484300
San Francisco is not a very large city bro.

>>11479244
>Also what fucking money does Vietnam have? Isn't it a third world country?
So is China, yet they were literally selling organs to buy iPhones. 3rd worlders are more likely to cargo cult than 1st worlders are.

>>11484507
plenty of people live in state capitals and minor cities that are low to mid COL.

You are paying a premium to live in San Francisco, NYC and etc. because of the name.

>>11479244
>>11484520
Americans really fucked themselves hard voting in their orange egg baby retard.

>>11483129
Unless they defined it differently in the bill, commercial shipments are when businesses buy things to use for business purposes or for resale and distribution, hence the COMMERCIAL part.

>>11483282
>>11483285
>>11483336
You scalpers or something?

>>11484535
Anon a store like Amazon JP sending you an item is a commercial shipment. Your aunt sending you a sweater is not a commercial shipment.

>>11484131
For most stores I've seen like on Aliexpress, the same item just costs more because they are paying the fee and then just adding it to the cost of the item to make it less messy.

>>11484547
That is not the definition of a commercial shipment, a commercial shipment is from one business to another. IE, the vendor shipping to Amazon, not Amazon shipping to your grandma. No idea if this bill encompasses both types and I expect it does but commercial shipping is an entirely different thing from residential shipping and has different rules.

>>11484547
No it's not. Commercial shipments have stricter import regulations and far, far more paperwork. Remember how people had to start paying huge customs processing fees for shit from China? Every commercial shipment has to do that. You would know if your shipment was a commercial shipment because you'd be paying out the ass just to get the paperwork done before even paying the tariffs.

>>11484525
Pedo

>>11484535
so does this mean de minimis still exists for say a random guy buying a toy from an online store in JP?

uh guys, trump might be retarded.

>>11488899
pls stop talking about jeffrey epstein already!!!!

>>11488890
It depends on how they defined commercial shipments. No one is really talking about this other than logistics news sites yet as its so far away and they all seem to be saying its all shipments.

>>11488929
I hate how the law is written so arbitrarily literally no one knows what it means and some judge has to decide what it means

>>11488899
>retard is legislating better than the last three democratic presidents and definitely better than the last republican that wasn't also him
Big self report, uniparty sisters...

>>11488950
its a feature

>>11488903
Wasn't it the MAGA conspiracy retards that kept the whole Epstein shit in media as much as possible for as long as possible?

>vietnam will pay the us
That's not how tariffs work.

>>11489628
how do people still not know tariffs?

It comes down to either decrease in profit or no more profit for the company exporting it.

Option A is to 'not eat' the tariff but to pass it on. Vietnam company pays the tariff charge, that money goes to the feds. Then, the Vietnam company passes that cost increase onto the consumer to offset it. Now that item costs more to the consumer. This means the consumer will either still buy it or not buy it. That is a new risk to the Vietnam company with the tariffs. Their product sells less or stops selling altogether.

Option B is for the Vietnam company to 'eat the tariff'. They pay the feds the tariff charge and not pass it on the consumer. Their profits are now lower.

Tariffs only work when the one's implementing it have the buying power and are the #1 consumers, which is the US.

The other half of this whole thing is income tax. With tariffs back in effect AND income tax on the consumer, the feds are double dipping into the consumer's wallet. For Option A to take hold, income taxes have to be abolished if the commitment to tariffs is true. The cost increase to the consumer wouldn't sting as much because now they get a decent percentage of their income back and the company selling the product could continue to maintain their regular sales volume.

Tariffs won't be viable longterm with income tax still in effect. It's 2 different systems the feds use to make money. Having both in effect is brutal on the consumer.

>>11488996
Q anon too. They've been silent lately. Most are in denial as usual and actually starting to say the file never existed in the first place. Clintons were solid A Ok folks after all, Trump vindicated them.

>>11489751
you are fucking dumb as shit dude

>>11483349
Imagine your policies being so wildly unpopular that people would rather burn down the country than let you anywhere near power

>>11483377
>this is the type of person telling you that the economy is going up in flames
Jesus Christ anon, groceries are one of the most basic things people need, and if prices on those are going down, that’s a good thing. Just because you’re irresponsible and spend all your cash on eating out doesn’t mean that other people can live like that

>>11484507
Anon there’s a lot of suburbs and smaller communities/towns still filled with people that have decent quality of life with reasonable pricing. Living in a huge city is just a drain on your wallet where you’ll get scammed and robbed, sometimes literally

>>11484568
>>11484557
Does it still get passed on to us? Like say, vendor sends it to Amazon, Amazon pays the fee, fee is attached to end price?

>>11489925
this is patently false. I like in one of those "smaller rural towns" and it's an unlivable hell. You people need to learn to shut your fucking mouths

>>11489929
Nigger I didn’t say “smaller rural town” I said smaller community. Not everything is either a huge city or bumfuck rural town, Jesus Christ. Get out of your fucking head

>>11489932
>uh.... uh... i... i didnt mean what I said I meant this different thing! You...you're just being a big meanie!

>>11489937
He literally didn't say small rural town, he said, and I am quoting directly here:

>>11489925
>there’s a lot of suburbs and smaller communities/towns

No where once did he mention rural. He's right, get out of your own head you unhinged lunatic.

>>11489942
>he

>>11489944
You're right, I'm samefagging. You got me! Enjoy your "living hell" of a small town you puss.

“Toys?”

>>11490171
You can notice the effect this is having only toys already. Right now it is destroying smaller toy retailers like BBTS and EE who are trying to sell figures for higher prices and fans are just fleeing the sites and ordering from places which don't pass the costs along.

Amazon, Walmart and Target are so far playing the long game--eating the cost for the most part with some exceptions.

Once BBTS, EE and other smaller retailers who handle toy/collector product collapse I expect Amazon, Walmart and Target will--now that any potential competition to their oligopoly is gone--raise the prices on toys and collectibles to include the tariff fees and potentially even more if they feel like it, leaving people with no choices and higher prices.

This is how a market collapses.

>>11490229
This is not even to mention the manufacturers. One who is showing big signs of being hit is McFarlane Toys, who went from 22.99 to 24.99 and now to 26.99 for basic DC Multiverse figures, 24.99 to 27.99 for DC Direct Page Punchers/Digital figures, and from 29.99 to 34.99 for "Collector's Edition" figures, has reduced the accessory count on the next CE wave at least (pic related), and we all know has started the "Elite edition" which is 59.99.

Chris Cocks also went back on TV again recently stating price hikes are coming if nothing changes, even after Hasbro backed off for a few months to see where the talks would go since they know price hikes would damage them and lose some fans permanently.

>>11490229
I don't think BBTS and EE are in any real danger. A big dip in profit compared to last year, sure, but they sell a LOT of shit you simply can't buy from amazon and walmart and that's been their strength for a long time. Its the smaller retailers like toystlkr, nerdzoic that almost exclusively sell cheap domestic shit that are in danger, especially the ones that use EE as a distributor because they're getting doubly fucked.

>>11490257
The weird thing is, nerdzoic seemed to like his chances in a video he made. I checked his store out of curiosity expecting the prices to be higher than BBTS/EE but many times he is selling stuff for close to MSRP while BBTS and EE have started raising prices to offset the tariffs. Which actually confuses me how he is able to undercut them on some stuff.

He mentioned trying to get a direct account back with McFarlane a long time ago but no idea if that ever happened, but that might imply he has a direct account with Hasbro already?

I am wondering if BBTS and EE actually stopped trusting Hasbro's US distribution when it went to pot in the early 2020s and started buying from Hasbro at point of origin in China and shipping with their own services (to assure they get product faster), and that is now biting them in the ass because they pay the tariffs rather than Hasbro. I have no way to prove that but I've heard people talk about that possibility. If a company could buy direct from Hasbro after Hasbro brings toys over to the states and eats the tariff costs or at least only raises the wholesale price a bit, I don't know why they wouldn't. The downside is of course you get the figures after large retailers like Target/Walmart/Amazon, but given Target and Walmart barely stock Hasbro and McFarlane toys anymore besides exclusives and movie stuff, I'm not sure that is a significant downside anymore.

Feel free to let me know if I'm off base here if anyone knows the logistics of this for sure, like if Hasbro only ever ships from China and doesn't let businesses order US stock that Hasbro brought over themselves.

>>11490413
>Feel free to let me know if I'm off base here if anyone knows the logistics of this for sure, like if Hasbro only ever ships from China and doesn't let businesses order US stock that Hasbro brought over themselves.
Considering how many distributors there are in the US, plus the fact that Walmart, Target, Amazon, BBTS, etc all get theirs directly from the docks/China, i don't see why anyone would get it from Hasbro's warehouse (if they have anything beyond their pulse/company store's).

>>11490422
Well the question kind of becomes then why does Hasbro or McFarlane need to raise any price at all for tariffs if their retailers are the ones paying the tariff, not Hasbro or McFarlane?

>>11490559
Hasbro do import themselves and then ship to retailers, just not to all of them.

>>11490559
Not sure if i understand your question, but both Hasbro and McFarlane still have to pay tariffs, because they also ahve their own stores. And they have agreements not to undercut their partners/distributors.

even if they didn't have a store, well... they'd still pay up for tariffs anyway, because tariffs are supposed to be universal.

>>11483506
he fired all the smart people. it's how he went bankrupt so many times.

>>11490566
Why don't bbts and EE try to get on that list?

>>11488890
Based on just that excerpt shared above, yes, you would still have de minimis. But I have no clue what the rest of the bill says.

>>11490891
>Why can't wholesome little bbts be the first ones to sell those precious little six inch 1/12 goodness?

>>11490897
Athena

>>11490229
Imagine believing stupid shit like this.

>>11491260
That'll be 34.99, plus shipping, plus tax, plus tariff, plus tip.

The toy industry will soon collapse.

So to make up for the tariff shit, you think Ali Express would catch on if I kept making new accounts to abuse their welcome deals?