This is complete insanity. These unwarranted, unwanted financial punishments are killing me where I work (music store, where much of our stock comes....or came...from China and now they're gouging my fellow poster dorks? Time to take the car keys away from grandpa.
Greg Douglass
Coos Bay OR
Sent: Sunday, June 01, 2025 at 12:20 PM
From: "MovieArt Original Film Posters" <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [MOPO] Trump muscles into movie posters...Canadians beware!
From: "MovieArt Original Film Posters" <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [MOPO] Trump muscles into movie posters...Canadians beware!
Michael,
I completely understand why you would feel as you do. But look at this way, Chump gets a military parade on his birthday and the U.S. treasury needs to raise between 25 and 45 million bucks to pay for that. The money’s got to come from SOMEWHERE.
Kirby
On Jun 1, 2025, at 10:41 AM, Michael Greenwood <[email protected]> wrote:HelloI just wanted to touch on something quickly as an observation and, possibly, a warning.This week I received a package of flat items from emovieposter, as usual. However, an unusual thing was that I was told the amount owed for the pickup was more than double what I was expecting. This put me on the path of assuming there was a clerical error at Canada Post or the Customs office and I was really not looking forward to trying to iron it out. I was mostly hoping Bruce's people had mistakenly marked a wrong value on the form. Anyway, as it turns out, there was nothing wrong. On top of the standard 13% HST (this is a Canadian sales tax on everything we buy) on the CDN dollar value of the package, there is now a 25% duty charge. I don't follow the economic genius in charge in the White House but I am going to also assume that this charge is a result of the tariff dance that has been ongoing since 47 took over. If I am wrong and a politically astute Mopoer can explain it to me, I'd love to hear. I also received a package or records from the US that were valued at around $125 but there was $0 duty on the customs sheet...just the normal tax I am used to.The warning part of this goes out to and Canuck collectors who may be as surprised as I or want to avoid these spikes in pulse. The batch of posters were valued at $422 US which comes to approximately $580 CDN. For a package of used advertising paper "worth" that, I paid around $252 to retrieve it from the post office once all those processing fees were tossed in. This will have an effect on the US economy! All the posters I would notmally be bidding on in the upcoming Bruce auctions will be missing one extra push to hammer value. I am not buying stuff that costs me another 38% to pass into Canada. Good news for the people I am always bidding against! The posters will still sell but fractions do matter. I'll deal with the smaller sellers for now and keep hoping we can keep customs and duty at bay. Or maybe it's a good time to call my collection finished. I'm starting to feel my money can be better spent as shipping costs and now customs/duty are forcing me to buy Canadian, find tax cheat sellers or simply quit and enjoy what I have built.All the best,M
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