Psa and USA - Canada Tarriff situation
DanS832
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I think the email was about a week ago that Canadians should not submit direct to PSA - thats a whole problem why do I have a membership then. But my question has anyone got a order shipped back to Canada lately as I have one in grading right now. Are they going to charge me 25% of the value of the cards as a tariff. I really hope not as this whole tariff problem between our two countries is a mess and how PSA declares the value is a mess too as I am not buy the cards but they are providing a service and they declare the value like I am buying them. I used SGC recently to try them out and had not custom duties charges where I always get duties charges from PSA.
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Canada, afaik, hasn’t tariffed all goods coming into Canada. So I can’t imagine there will be any issues.
I went to sub an SGC order last night and they wouldn’t take it, which also doesn’t make sense. Imported goods will be subject to a import tariff but there is a min threshold and I’m not sure why a tariff would apply at all - the value add/service is being applied in the USA.
All in all…. this is all so stupid and completely decimates cross border commerce. We canceled two family vacations to the US because of this stupidity . Hopefully sanity returns because this is going to be a substantial wealth/business killer if not. I’m pretty sure our LCS will not survive without the US as a market (import and export, most wax comes out of the USA).
Its a difficult situation. I have cancelled going to the Minnesota card show in April because of this situation. I had hotel and flights booked
Honest question, as I don't know - how does the tariff situation impact traveling to US, going to a show, and then returning? Does it impact the duties you pay at the border when bringing cards into Canada?
Don't forget about us. Eh-der. We're like part Canadian here in Mn donchaknow? Might need a quick escape route and my son-in-law has dual citizenship.
We are now paying a 25% tariff returning. President Trump twice said they were going to tariff all our goods coming in by 25% so Canada decided on the second time it was imposed to put their own tariff on USA goods coming back into Canada. But nothing is very clear here.
There is also a growing movement to support Canadians. So people are trying to travel local and buy local goods as we dont know what the future will bring with import/export.
As well are dollar is weak and has gotten weaker so thats another problem with going to a show in the United States.
The Minnesota show is April 11-13 and there is a Toronto show April 24-27 so now I will go to the Toronto show. I was in Minnesota last year and it was a good show and will now try the Toronto show but my preference and did book to go to the Minnesota show. Problem with the Toronto show I am sure it will be weak with baseball cards and strong with hockey cards and I have a preference for baseball.
We have always values our great friendship and relationships with our USA neighbours.
Basically killed cross border commerce. Good luck selling cards into Canada, cost is now 25% + 12% tax + shipping. Not to mention the horrible currency conversion. A 125 dollar card in USD would land here at around 200 bucks.
thats exactly the problem horrible for canadian collectors
then psa wont let us submit
the person above said SGC wouldnt take his order
Bring back NAFTA - please!
$125.00 us dollar = Canadian buyer price $179.84 + $15 ship + $8.99 GST + $44.96 tariff = $248.79 plus maybe a customs processing fee
Yes SGC shut down canadian submissions
Thanks for the breakdown. I have been curious how the tariff would work, but if it's implemented on everything when you cross back into Canada (via the duties), then I see how it's extremely cost-prohibitive to acquire anything in the US. My hope was that the tariff was going to be something that was targeted, like applied to certain goods, but not all.
Admittedly, I choose not to listen to the news too much, so I'm only superficially aware of what's happening, but not the details. I have enough in my own world to worry about to where I don't need to get worked up over something I cannot control.
Thats a good approach and I take a similar approach. No purchases from the US - ok, I’ll buy from my local LCS, maybe actually attend a national canadian show, and sit on my grading stack.
We haven’t bought a thing on Amazon in 2 months - used to have packages coming weekly - and haven’t missed it at all. Globalism kind of sucks, good opportunity to change habits.
Yeah me as well and most people I talked to are doing the same. Yeah makes sense about Amazon get out and shop local.
I've been to the Edmoton show once and it was ok - lots of hockey, little baseball and not much football cards. Toronto show sounded good last year from what I read about it.
Yeah will also hold onto grading cards I have about a 100 ready to go. Dont want to use KSA.
Also looking at obscure online auctions in Canada. This week bought a bunch of 1958 Topps baseball cards raw - Hank Aaron, Frank Robinson, Brooks Robinson, Mickey Mantle, Ernie Banks and about 100 additional cards with some looking like 8's and maybe a few 9's in there. Also the full 1981 Topps set. I stumbled across this auction, it was kinda an estate sale