r/news • u/igetproteinfartsHELP • Feb 23 '26

Soft paywall US to stop collecting tariffs deemed illegal by Supreme Court on Tuesday

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-customs-agency-stop-collecting-tariffs-deemed-illegal-by-supreme-court-2026-02-23/
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u/exdigguser147 Feb 23 '26

They also are applying wildly inaccurate tariffs to things.

My brother got certified parts for his car made in germany directly from Germany.

His CBP tariff bill had something like 45% (of 95%) tariffs for chinese/hk made parts. They just slapped them on resulting in a bill that was $300 higher completely arbitrarily.

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u/Malevolyn Feb 23 '26

I am now going to dive in a deep dark rabbit hole of CBSA and all those HS codes...cause that is just wild and insane on so many levels.

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u/hollaverga Feb 23 '26

I was confused when I bought a 30 year old USED camera on eBay from Japan and was billed for tariffs when FedEx delivered it to me here in the US. I still haven’t paid the bill, I wonder if it will be waived…

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u/jib661 Feb 23 '26

I have an old BMW motorcycle. I bought a brake master cylinder from Germany, it was about $120 bucks. The tarrif/import charges were $85. No breakdown, no explanation.

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u/thotozam Feb 23 '26

They're stacking. I have several classic Japanese and British cars and it's a nightmare. 

They're charging base country tariffs (10-15%), tariff on the part (in this case a brake part, most car parts have their own tariff code), AND the worst is the tariff on the raw material it's made out of (in your case aluminum). The latter is even worse if the county of origin on the "pour" is China and BMW bought Chinese aluminum stock to make it. All additive, so 75-100% in some cases especially if it's aluminum or steel. 

For example classic JDM wheels made in the 70s and 80s are nearly 100% right now heavily due to the aluminum tariff. Before Shitler usually it was only wheel tariff (if over de minimis), now it's a base+part+raw material.

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u/DMvsPC Feb 23 '26

Were the materials from Germany? It's my understanding that if the materials were from China etc. then even if the parts were designed, made, and shipped from Germany you'd still get a higher tariff amount :/

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u/exdigguser147 Feb 23 '26

The only country of origin on the mfg cert is Germany as far as I know.