{"id":6797,"date":"2025-04-04T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-04T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/?p=6797"},"modified":"2025-04-04T00:57:20","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T04:57:20","slug":"pain-in-the-tariff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/?p=6797","title":{"rendered":"Pain In The Tariff!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

So, I was eying “Dexter’s Laboratory – The Complete Collection<\/a>” at several retailers and had never considered that the tariffs<\/a> would have a secondary effect on goods that are not tariffed so I didn’t expect sticker shock a few days back – The price of this DVD collection just skyrocketed, by $30 at some of these retailers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like CDs and vinyl, DVDs and Blu-rays are not currently included in the list of goods that are being subjected to tariffs<\/a>. But I suspect their prices will go up in the states, well above the $20 postal importation exemption<\/a>, which is rather annoying. And I presume any shipment from the states would be delayed going through customs because they’ll have more forms to fill out, unless Canadians just stop importing from the states via mail.

I did just order the collection from a Canadian seller on eBay<\/a> for the amount I had encountered before the hike, preferring to avoid the American and Chinese sellers. And if need be I could always try the U.k and Europe for other releases as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I personally like Amazon u.k<\/a>, Amazon France<\/a> and FNAC<\/a> for CDs and Region Free DVDs from Europe, and I do have a region free DVD player for some French films that never made their way to DVD in North America. But sometimes deals can be had for under $20 Canadian, not including shipping, and sometimes the shipping rates are acceptable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have emailed my local MP and several electoral candidates suggesting a $60 exemption for postal importations from Europe, the U.k and several more of our stable<\/em><\/strong> trade partners so I’m hoping we’ll be able to order more from those countries after the election is done.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you want to support a $60 exemption for postal imports, which is long overdue, you can contact your local Member of Parliament via this form<\/a>, after the election of course. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hopefully we’ll be done with this tariff nonsense soon… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So, I was eying “Dexter’s Laboratory – The Complete Collection” at several retailers and had never considered that the tariffs would have a secondary effect on goods that are not tariffed so I didn’t expect sticker shock a few days back – The price of this DVD collection just skyrocketed, by $30 at some of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,4,5],"tags":[135,1568,331,381,489,1195,491,613,990],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6797"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6797"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6801,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6797\/revisions\/6801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}