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.