I got a package from Denmark a week ago. The label said I’d paid $0.50 tariff, but I don’t remember doing that. Perhaps the company added it into the overall shipping cost for your order.

As a aside:
Steve has games he backed on Kickstarter, many are manufactured and/or shipped from China. Right now, things have stalled. Games that were ready to ship aren’t, and production on others have shut down.

The bigger tariffs went away (the ones that were made with an *incredibly* stupid equation and applied to everywhere except a very few, very oddly-selected countries; thus the penguins got tariffed because they just slapped the baseline tariff on everywhere and forgot that not everywhere has *trade with the US*), except for China, and got replaced with 10% tariff on Everywhere, for now, see 90 day pause but who even knows; I think the (partial) tariff pause also resulted in most of the reciprocal tariffs going away. It’s a… mess.

I suspect Colourmart has eaten the tariff cost, since they already did free shipping, but don’t know. I hope the yarn gets to you soon!

It truly is confusing. Love your laser pointer analogy. Hope your yarn arrives soon. For something to fill the time, look up Australian Anthony Albanese’s victory speech. Care, unity, all the good.

I have no idea, but I hope the system gets unclogged soon, and you get your yarn! I really feel for smaller companies especially, trying to navigate this situation in all its flux.

Just went to my LYS to purchase British yarn they may not be able to carry going forward, due to tariffs. Bought enough for a fair isle sweater. Also bought some other yarn. While they were winding it, they mentioned to another customer that the owner had put all orders on hold until they know what’s happening.

This is indeed a sad state of affairs – especially for small business owners who rely on overseas products (not even from China) for their customers. I am trying to do my part to support them, but I have limited funds, and my stash is officially full.