@padraicpaul91 wrote:
Selling internationally is becoming increasingly fraught with costly issues.
I have already stopped sales to France and Germany, my largest European markets, due to their charges for disposal or recycling of packaging. Apparently these charges will eventually include all of the EU and UK.
I am now about to suspend sales to the US, my largest market outside Australia. The system for the collection of tariffs is not in place, although the charge is effective from August 29th.
Where once 40% of my turnover was from international sales, iI doubt it will ever be that way again. I have a large number of US made items. However, eBay seems to take a one size fits all approach and will likely charge them as well. That belief is based on their charging GST on used items I have purchased OS.
The email from eBay implies that the US import charges will be collected by US Customs.
Are you saying that you actually have administrative access to the US Customs system? That's the only way you could possibly know that they don't have anything in place for the upcoming changes.
