U.S. tariffs from Japan - still happening?

[greenc]

Hi all,

Hope you're all enjoying a good weekend and a great World Cup!

I've not purchased a jacket from Japan to be sent to the U.S. in five or six months and as such I don't know if the tariffs are still in effect.

The Supreme Court struck down the tariffs, however, has that ruling been practically applied? If you purchase through Buyee and ship to the U.S. are they still collecting the tariffs?

I have a piece I'm interested in at a decent price with a coupon. If someone with recent experience could please let me know I'd appreciate it, thank you. Enjoy the day!

Chris

 

[Cheech]

Yes, the tariffs are still being applied. Although the IEEPA tariffs were struck down in February by the Supreme Court, the Administration immediately implemented a 10% global tariff via another mechanism that is supposed to sunset after 6 months, I believe. Long story short, importing products from Japan is still a lot costlier than it used to be.

 

[Cheech]

I should note that it hasn’t stopped me from buying a few things. I have found that FromJapan offers better shipping rates than Buyee, particularly if you use ECMS. You can still expect to pay somewhere around 15% on top of the purchase price in tariffs and fees, not including actual shipping.

 

[greenc]

I should note that it hasn’t stopped me from buying a few things. I have found that FromJapan offers better shipping rates than Buyee, particularly if you use ECMS. You can still expect to pay somewhere around 15% on top of the purchase price in tariffs and fees, not including actual shipping.

Thank you @Cheech I appreciate the information. Still a bit of a pest these tariffs. Hopefully in August things will ease. Thanks again, enjoy the day.

 

[Cyber Lip]

I paid a bunch for a bunch of shipments in 2025/26 during the 1st round of tariffs. Shipped via DHL and was forced to pay the tariffs to DHL. Per the supreme court order, refunds of those tariffs which were deemed illegal are happening. I applied for my refunds directly through DHL as they had set up a refund request submission process. Well guess what...they denied all the refund requests citing some BS reason. I had used my credit card to pay all of them, so I contacted my CC company and filed a dispute on each one, and the CC company decided in my favor and I got my $$ back.

 

[Cheech]

Before the February ruling, I had accrued a small backlog of bills to Fedex for post-delivery tariff-related charges. As soon as the ruling came down, I wrote to Fedex to expunge that backlog. To this day, some are "under review," and others they are still badgering me to pay even though I provide the legal rationale for not doing so.

 

[Tom71]

I paid a bunch for a bunch of shipments in 2025/26 during the 1st round of tariffs. Shipped via DHL and was forced to pay the tariffs to DHL. Per the supreme court order, refunds of those tariffs which were deemed illegal are happening. I applied for my refunds directly through DHL as they had set up a refund request submission process. Well guess what...they denied all the refund requests citing some BS reason. I had used my credit card to pay all of them, so I contacted my CC company and filed a dispute on each one, and the CC company decided in my favor and I got my $$ back.

Well done...

The only outcome from that will be that DHL will once again abandon services to the US.

This is not an issues of couriers filling their pockets but of an erratic administration and public bodies unable to adopt their processes at the rate the rules are changed and re-changed.

 

[Aloysius]

Well done...

The only outcome from that will be that DHL will once again abandon services to the US.

This is not an issues of couriers filling their pockets but of an erratic administration and public bodies unable to adopt their processes at the rate the rules are changed and re-changed.

I agree with the point about bad and arbitrary policy but I have experienced a lot of erratic DHL calculation of tariffs (even before the Trump tariffs); I tend to be proactive so I call or get on their chat to get rates corrected, to their credit, but I remember being asked to pay huge tariff rates on Aero parcels that were well below the duties threshold, or being asked to pay a huge rate on a small package from Japan that would have not had it etc.

To their credit they are responsive when you reach out in this way. But the issue is that apart from people like us who are a bit more informed there are probably plenty of people who buy something and automatically pay DHL's incorrect calculation (I can see my father doing this, for example.)