I will now be turning on shipping to the United States once again. To start, I will be using Shopify’s internal system that will calculate and add the duty costs directly into my shop’s checkout experience. For now, these shipments will be sent out using Canada Post which can be a little bit slower than some of the other carriers I’ve used for USA orders previously.
Until I get a few sales using this new method, I won’t exactly know how quickly or smoothly these orders are getting through, or what types of issues could arise through the customs system once they reach USA, so I apologize in advance for any bumps in the road as I figure this out!
A few notes to keep in mind:
❖ The majority of my products are manufactured in China since that’s my only option to find factories to make my product designs – but this means these products could have at least a 35% tariff rate since they are of Chinese-origin
❖ The products with the lowest duties will be my socks (made in USA), or other products that list “made by Wask” or “made in Canada”
❖ If there is a product showing an extremely high duty rate at checkout, please inform me and I can see if there is a more suitable tariff category to place the product in which could lower the rate
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Update October 28th: Today I spent hours going through tariff codes and trying to find the absolute cheapest options for my products. A bunch of items were updated, so check your cart if you had something in there in the last couple of days!
Hi can you give an update I really want to buy some. I won’t return it and I want to use it to prank some friends
Hello! I’m waiting to see what’s going to happen with the shipping services in the coming weeks. Maybe there will be a DDP option available eventually.
It’s too bad we find ourselves in this place, but hopefully we will get through this. Happy to say I received my lined paper sticky notes and I see other cool things on your website. But I do understand that you must do what you need to do. Maybe one day I’ll get to order some other cool stuff.
Thanks for your comment! I’m hoping I can eventually find some sort of solutions to keep shipping to the States.
Are there any updates?
Hi Jamey!
Although there have been some new systems put into place now since the most recent tariff changes, the only way I can now ship to the USA is if the duties are paid upfront. I don’t have any way to calculate this beforehand for customers to see, so I don’t really know any streamlined way to sell my products right now. I think even if I could show the duties upfront, nobody would want to buy, because I believe it could be anywhere from 35% – 60% and then other fees like a brokerage fee, etc. on top if it.
Heya,
Do you think you’ll be back up by Christmas or potentially new years? I have a friends birthday in early January who I think would love your art.
Hello! Thanks for your interest in my shop. 🙂
At this time, I don’t know of any way to avoid the newly added USA duty charges. For many of my products it can be up to 45% extra duty costs because most of my products are made in China (I often have no other choice). The lowest duty product I have would be my USA-made socks.
I haven’t turned on the shipping because I felt that nobody will want to pay the 45% duty costs – but if I’m wrong about that then please let me know and I can think about turning it back on. 🙂
Found out about these today, and I’d love to get my hands on a couple sets in the US!
Hi! Are you referring to the Think Twice Dice sets?
Unfortunately the duty charges for the dice would probably be within the 35% – 45% range. At this time I don’t really know a way around that.
If people are still willing to buy from my shop with the big duty costs then I would consider maybe turning the shipping back on, so please let me know your thoughts!
I’m also in the USA, and I’d be willing to pay the duty costs! Was hoping to place an order of $50 or so. Sorry you have to deal with all this complexity!
Thank you! I hate the guilty feeling of knowing some customers might be paying double for my products, when I really strive on creating affordable products that are still made by an “independent designer”, so it feels so counter-intuitive!
But I think I will test out re-opening shipping to USA later today.
I will update this blog + Twitter + Instagram once I do!
Woo-hoo! Thank you!