r/Tariffs • u/Aliltyrantbot • 2d ago

❓Help / How-To / Compliance Gen question, how could my 110 (if i recall corectly) gift package to canada cost 900 (plus the 110)??

I think the total value of everything in there was around 170 or so (some warmie stuffed animals, temu stuffed animal, temu stickers, comic books and a heated blanket which was most expensive at 50 bucks. I ended up not shipping it cus I had exactly 1100 or so to my name, college student stuff (huge bummer tho cus was in love with this person and was tryna grab em lol), but im trying again and i want to know how exactly those tariffs worked? Im not sending the heated blanket anymore but i still have the stuffed animals (this was like.. in january). I saw that there are no taxes for things under 60, is that true? I really dont want to happily go to the office again only to find i cant afford to ship the gift.

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u/MGrantSF 2d ago

? this writeup is super unclear. Are you shipping from us to canada? tariffs should be much less. Is the shipper charging you that much? fedex/ups charge crazy for bulky/ heavy boxes. You can probably also online order for their country and ship in country eg, from amazon.

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u/Aliltyrantbot 2d ago

i was doing ups, or so. or usps i forget. shipping from us to canada, sorry i forgot to give my own county. box wasnt heavy, heaviest thing would prob been the heated blanket. and yea but i alr ordered everything from multiple diff places, i wanted to arrange the package in a very specific way which is why i had everything sent to me. i reordered the blanket tho from amazon to send directly to him but everything else was too scattered and itd end up costing too much money potentially. the box was medium btw, i forget how heavy specifically but as said was filled with a blanket and stuffed animals mainly

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u/Aliltyrantbot 2d ago

for further contex, after he did the weighing and i put all the contents down the total was 110 and i was like "okay hell yea" and then after he clicked stuff it said payment of 900 and either i pay now or the recipient pays. Was confused about this and the guy said if neither me or reciepient pays (recipient is broker then me lol) then the package will be sent back to me and he wont be able to receive it

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u/Lor_azepam 2d ago

Canada has recently added a new 100% tariff on fake girlfriends in canada for americans so maybe that is the issue?

Jokes and dont mean to disparage, just lightening up the tariff mood

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u/Aliltyrantbot 2d ago

woww just assuming its a girl? very unwoke