@von KlinkerhoffenSigh, it really is not worth it, and given my recent visit to my local “brick and mortar” store where I found that the prices on foreign goods have not only stayed the same but even lowered in some cases possibly not even necessary. I recently picked up an Italian made 1/56 tank kit that was normally $33.50 for $26.80 which looked like a permanent price change, I checked other items in there same thing and by the way it seems to be the same deal for other stores, non-hobby ones, that I have visited (so either the tariffs are doing nothing noticeable on most good or deflation is nullifying them).
Frankly I think instead of shipping molds back and forth across the Atlantic which has got to be costing a mint, what WA should do is just hire a full time tariff/tax lawyer to navigate things unless they have already and this is the best advice they could give. (Frankly every hobby company should have a full time tariff/tax lawyer just to deal with UK and EU foreign goods taxes, not to mention my home state’s foreign goods taxes).
To be honest though I think this “tariff madness” is more likely to be much ado about nothing. You all need to stop listening to random journalists (and politicians while we are at it), till you learn to think for yourself first and focus on your actual surroundings to see if what they say actually matches up with the reality on the street. I have taken journalism classes and guess what journalists are not there to inform you, but to tell you what to think and feel (it’s how they are trained). Frankly they are non-government spies at best so you should be very skeptical of what journalist says even if you agree with them, in fact particularly if you agree with them since they never have the budget to actually do decent research. Heck, currently journalistic fearmongering seems to be the real main cause of economic uncertainty in the US not Orange man and his dinky tariffs and other policies.
However if you’re really bugged about it, write your own government about settling with the US fully and start buying American after local made where it makes sense for you to do so since Biden* and Trump only started these tariffslikely due to outstanding trade deficits the USA has had predominately with Asian and European nations for decades now. If there had been few or no trade deficits between the US and other nations in the first place, there would likely be no across board US tariffs on foreign goods think on that for moment.
You could also write my governor Mr. Newsom, and ask him about removing California’s trade taxes on “foreign goods”**, which has probably been harming merchants both abroad and from other US states just as much the Trump tariffs if not more (certainly not helping local merchants on the supply end). He does not listen to us CA voters on issues, but he did clean up San Fresco for Xi Ping so maybe he will listen to a fellow from Europe.
*(Yes they both installed tariffs at least with regards to China).
**(Yes California tariffs products from other US states and nations in general, and I doubt they are the only state that does that).
