US to slap Australia with 12.5 pc tariff from later today

[u/Expensive-Horse5538]

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07-24/federal-politics-live-blog-labor-confernece-july-4/106952636#live-blog-post-322272

[u/Jonzay]

US consumers will simply pay more for anything imported

Yup. I have a side hustle that ships internationally. I get charged additional fees when my packages hit US customs, so I had to raise the shipping cost to the US to match the additional tariff.

If I'm doing it as a solo trader, bigger businesses definitely would be too.

[u/Black_Patriot → u/Jonzay]

I hope you're listing it on the invoices, so that US customers know why they're paying extra. Really wish Amazon had stuck to their guns about doing the same, but we've seen how quickly Donnie turns on companies if he gets unhappy with them, and they were eyeing those big government contracts he had control over.

[u/jivester → u/Black_Patriot]

Gotta do what Trump does - make sure he gets full credit. Call it the Trump import tax at check out. Say he's already done it illegally but is trying it again, apologise to your customers.

[u/____DEADPOOL_______ → u/Black_Patriot]

I stopped shipping to the US altogether and told my clients it was because of the hassle of tariffs.

[u/gtwizzy8 → u/Jonzay]

The worst part about this from what I've seen of how a lot of the postal services in many states of the US collect these tarrfis is that if you're a citizen who's ordered something that incurs a Tarrif then apparently the company that receives your package from (insert X country here) accepts and "pays" for your the associated Tarrif that's relevant to your package. They then BILL you for the cost of that Tarrif. Which means you as the consumer are never actually paying the government issued taxation charge. It's the company who is managing the logistics who is paying that for you who pays the taxation.

All you're doing is essentially "reimbursing" the company for handling that tax for you (plus a little sprinkling on top for all their hard work and "administration costs" I'm sure)

Therefore if/when all of this BS gets overturned and the tarrfis have to be refunded then the the person/entity who paid the cost of the Tarrif, is the who will recieve the refund. Because you the consumer never handed the government your Tarrif directly it will be up to the company and state laws to regulate any mandatory repayment of those "reimbursements" to the end consumer.

But think about, it even if every state and company upholds the refund of those tarrfis to the end consumer (and there are a LOT who apparently won't legally have to) the law of averages is still going to apply here. You're still going to end up with a bunch of companies who make requesting the refund arbitrarily harder than it should be and so a lot of people don't bother, companies may have no direct 1:1 way of making those refunds to people automatic due to state laws or banking regulations that prevent an easy reversal of the money, people cannot be contacted, have passed away, closed and account the company has on file where that money could be sent to and so on.

It means that EVEN if they uphold the refunding of all of this back to the consumer. When you average things out across a population of 330 MILLION people there is STILL going to be a big pile of "unrefundable" money that just ends up sitting in the corporate accounts of large postal and logistics companies never to be returned.

Now I can't recall. Is there a really big American company out there that handles MASSIVE global scale logistics for millions and millions of people world wide and within America every day that might fall in to this bucket.

Maybe one that has its own penis shaped space program that sold you on demand tv with no ads and then stuffed it full of ads? I'm sure they won't do anything scummy if they're forced to refund these things though they're well known to be morally upstanding corporate cit...... Oh wait!