I was referring to this hobby in regards to the tariffs being a “first world problem”. But going to food and clothing, most foods that I consume are from the USA, aside from certain seafoods and fruits. Clothing, like my model stash, I have enough of to last me the rest of my probable life span, as long as I don’t gain or lose weight drastically.
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Im afraid it was you that voted you child like president into office. good luck.
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This is drifting into political territory, which I believe is against the forum rules.
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South Korea also suspended shipping to the USA as of August 25.
This is from Division Miniatures (DToys).
Hello
Due to the current tariff imposition in the United States, all postal service from Korea to the United States has been temporarily suspended as of August 25th.
I check with the post office daily to determine when service will resume. I hope it will resume soon.
You have the option to either hold your order or cancel it.
Thank you.
Daniel.
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Welcome aboard!
Some information for new members:
One of the few rules we do enforce is that political discussions
and anything else that is too far off model related topics shall
be kept in the Off-Topic Shenanigans forum, it is a sub-forum
in the ‘General discussions’ area.
US tariffs impacting on buying models and accessories,
after market parts et.c is ‘on topic’.
The reasons for these tariffs, who imposed them and why,
why someone voted this way, that way or any other way is
definitely off-topic and goes to the Off-Topic Shenanigans.
That forum is only available by explicitly “opting in” and
accepting the rules (almost anything is OK except personal
attacks, too much s-e-x, advocating for drugs ..)
Moderators will take down anything violating the rules.
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We can all say " I’ve got a large stash so I don’t care". That avoids the problem… for me. However the problem still remains for others in the hobby. Odd, a tariff, a tax on whoever imports something, is going to help pay for the Big Beautiful Bill. Companies who rely on shareholders and for the most part any company, will pass on the additional costs to you. Maybe not immediately, if they also have a large inventory, but as new stock is ordered, costs will rise. I see this as a problem. If our hobby distributers start to fall by the wayside our availability will decrease. The other countries not shipping to us is a second layer to the problem. I remember the threads when tariffs were first discussed and many thought nothing was going to happen to our hobby. No one foresaw other countries stop shipping to the US. Most said toys (our hobby) was not going to be affected. Yet here we are. As an aside, I bought a pound of hamburger (80/20) for $8.48 a pound yesterday. We were promised that grocery costs were going down…I am still waiting.
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I made a comment about Russian AFV losses on the Ukrainian front and was immediately censored! Talk about forum “rules”! 
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I neither make nor enforce the rules here, so I don’t know what to say about that.
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Ironically, tariffs (which are paid for by the consumers) are making it possible for US to borrow more internationally, and get deeper in debt! 
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My dad calls it kicking the can down the road…it will be someone else’s problem in the future.
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It’s affecting purchasing products in the USA as well as the distributors and stores have to order from overseas.
This is from Michigan Toy Soldier from an order I made on June 27th. This was the reply I got on August 13th when I asked about the order.
“Hi, that order is delayed a few more weeks from UK, we are having customs and tariff issues, but we WILL get kit.
Best Regards,
Steve”
The product on the Michigan Toy Soldier page says, “This item is not part of our regular inventory. Allow about a week for item to arrive at MichToy.”
It is 9 weeks now since June 27th and still nothing from them.
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I am curious as to the reasoning behind the increased cost of beef lately. My wife has been commenting to me on the increased cost of beef over the past couple of months. I have not read of anything sweeping thru cattle herds or whatnot causing a large loss of livestock. The chicken & egg situation I understand, with bird flu wiping out huge portions of that livestock. But has anything similar recently hit the cattle industry?
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Frankly, I’m more impressed that we (USA) is posting a $4 trillion reduction in deficit due primarily to the tariff situation. Not my numbers, comes from the CBO, which has historically been tough on trump.
Be that as it may, why have none of you bemoaned the fact that other countries enforce much larger tariffs or close their markets to US products?
Personally I do believe that access to the largest consumer market on the planet should have a price. That price should not be the sacrifice of our manufacturing capabilities.
Yep, a tariff is a tax. But it is a voluntary tax. If I source locally, then I don’t pay the tax. As in all good capitalistic systems, if the demand is there, business will fill the void.
The early numbers indicate this situation may well be a tempest in a teapot. Just as the same moaners whined about trump’s first term tariffs - which his predecessor was more than happy to continue - which had virtually no impact on inflation.
Your hobby life means nil in the overall scheme of things.
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We import a lot of beef for American consumers and export a lot of American beef to other countries.
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“Yep, a tariff is a tax. But it is a voluntary tax. If I source locally, then I don’t pay the tax. As in all good capitalistic systems, if the demand is there, business will fill the void.”
The quiet part here is that most, or all, of the tariffed items are either not manufactured in the US (because it would just cost too much), or if they are manufactured locally, they cost double, or more, of the imports. With the current costs of living, are people (lower income) really going to voluntarily pay more??
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Correct. If our hobby industry collapsed, life would go on. So…if other countries have a tariff on American goods, It costs me nothing. If a tariff is places on incoming items, I have to pay extra.
The challenge is our products are higher priced than many other countries can make it for, tariffs or not. If we make and sell t shirts for $15 and Vietnam can make it for $3, how many T shirts will we sell overseas? Few. We make and sell things that other countries need but can’t make themselves like aircraft, generator systems, wheat etc…So if, we continue to import shirts and shoes and other things (Toys), because there is not enough profit for American manufacturers to make them, it only means the cost will go up (government makes more money and not you). Now I am waiting for the government to come up with the idea for taxing shipping so that every Amazon delivery will be contributing to the government.
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Read this
The US per capita consumption of beef, if I did the maths correctly,
means that the total beef imports is about 7% of the consumption.
However: beef produced in the US may require imports (you should
have surplus of corn and soy beans if China has turned to other
suppliers)
Inflation in general has affected beef prices in Sweden as well,
without any tariffs …
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Sounds likely VMS products will become more annoying to acquire but otherwise no immediate impact for me.
The USA having it all squared away now is the funniest thing I’ve read in the last two years!
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Only in our own little lives 
Tariffs to protect domestic industry makes the domestic industry lazy,
industry in other countries will do whatever they can to remain competitive
despite the handicap. The domestic industry will continue to increase
their prices to pay for their costs and nice profits to the owners.
Eventually they will price themselves out of the market and the
imported goods will kill off the last remains of that domestic industry.
Read the section about Smoot-Hawley:
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Which tariffs and which products?
We don’t buy US beef, poultry or eggs (too much antibiotics, shipping shouldn’t be an issue
with meat, we get frozen beef from South America, eggs could be difficult …).
US cars don’t sell much either, too big for our parking lots and streets besides being too thirsty.
Small US cars could compete with European or Japanese cars but US production costs are
too high so they can’t compete on price and quality is more or less the same so, no sales …
Anyone wanting to sell anything in the EU has to comply with our health and safety standards
(there is a reason for the big difference in colour between US Fanta and the stuff we buy).
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