As of this date, Feb 2, 2025, Trump has decided to impose a 25% tariff on all Canadian goods, save oil. Effective Tuesday the 4th.
Which still gives us an option to avoid this insanity.
However
Should he pull the trigger;
One way or another, everything I sell to my US customers will likely windup costing 25% more. Whether I have to add it to the bill and submit the tariffs to the US government, or the customer has to pay the tariff to the shipper before receiving his package.
We're being told that former $800.00 valuation exemption is being removed.
As you can imagine, I'm not happy about this.
The future of Yarmouth Model Works is now very much in doubt. We will try and persevere through these trying times and hope that common sense returns before too much damage is done to both of our national economies.
If the policies announced remain in force through the summer, I will not be attending any of the RPMs I usually frequent.
Buckle up people, it's gonna be a bumpy ride.
Predictable and sad. Many things have contributed to the brainwashing of so many Americans, but Fox News is by far the biggest culprit. I’m afraid it’s over for the United States.
ReplyDeleteHeard you on the call in show yesterday on TV. Yes this is a mess. I held off signing up to the NMRA national due to that fact. I also will not be going to the US while tariffs are happening. Feel bad about it all as I do have family living in the US.
ReplyDeleteHi Pierre, It will be a bumpy ride. I work for a med device manufacture and we get a lot of parts out of Canada and China. This is going to hurt our ability to price and we ship finished good all over the world, including China, Canada and Mexico, so any retiary tariffs will be a double hit. All of these tariffs will make us spend more o the things we have to buy leaving even less for the fun things, like you kits. I hope it ends quickly and we can all live in colmer world. Jim Fellows
ReplyDeletePlease remember that almost one half of American voters did not vote for Mr Trump, and that in two years we may hopefully have a more representative Congress!
ReplyDelete2024 turnout - 63.9% of eligible voters
ReplyDeleteT's share - 49.8%, which is short of a majority of turnout, never mind a majority of eligible voters
Eligible voters for T - 31.8%, not even a third of eligible voters, never mind Americans as a whole.