My bad I missed the thread on Huma Air and UPS shipping. I just got an invoice from UPS for $80.27 for Government Charges plus an additional $23 for brokerage fees for my Huma order of Snowpeak M60 .177 & .22 magazines (metal magazines that also fit a Zelos) and a Air Stripper. I recently received my M60B from Wes in Canada and a Eagle Visions moderator from the UK. They were shipped via Fed Ex and no additional fees were charged. I would recommend to avoid using UPS International shipping if possible, for now. I am not making a political statement on Tariffs with this post. I'm just pointing out how my recent International shipping experiences can be costly when using a particular shipper.
UPS International Shipping to the United States
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Keep in mind you bought Snowpeak which is Chinese merchandise, regardless of who is selling it overseas, you will be receiving additional fees.
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I don't think the answer to the different shipments is the shipper, I suspect it is the merchant. I doubt Federal Express absorbed the tarriff, I think Airgun, Archery, Fun and whoever sold the moderator did. The tarriffs create a mess with international orders but I will say here what I said in the post on the M60B. I do not think it is good customer service for merchants to bury their plan to charge customers any tarriff in the fine print of their terms and conditions. It's legal, I just think it is not a polite way to treat customers, especially when the tarriff charges may be unusually large. A good way for the situation to get better would be for the merchants that have decided to absorb the tarriff impact to make VERY clear that they will not charge extra for tarriffs. Or state what assumption they have made in their pricing about tarriffs. I would be significantly more likely to buy from merchants that were very clear on this point. I bought a GX CS2 from Amazon very recently because I was pretty sure I would not be hit with an extra fee for tarriffs. And I have not been. When I ordered my first one GX did not charge me a tarriff either but they were a lot lower at that time and it might have been long enough ago there wasn't any (because the price was too low). When tarriffs may double the charge to the customer I think merchants should be very clear what they are doing.
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I have an order that is not airgun related being held at customs now. I assume it is the same. 4px was the "shipper" so who knows what next. I have no easy way to contact them i can see.
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I also ordered a new piston assembly for my Yong Heng from Amazon and it shipped from China. I got it today and again no tarriff. I believe the merchants that bill us for the tarriffs arrange the paperwork to say that we, the customer, is the importer of the item. That makes us responsible for the tarriff. The merchants that do not charge make themselves the one to import the part to the U. S. and pay the tarriff. One of the reasons I think this is I had two P35s get stuck at customs several years ago and Krale was VERY particular about what they would do. The dispute was over a shipping invoice which customs and UPS said was not on the box. Krale said it would and would not send UPS another. But they would send me one and I sent it to UPS and the problem was solved. It was clear that in Krale's mind their responsibility was only to get the shipment to the shipper (who they picked). If they had assumed responsibility to get the item to the U. S. I cannot see them acting that way.
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