Likely yes although I’m not sure if the administration has fully got rid of De Minimis or figured out how to reduce from $800 USD.With UPS the added kicker is UPS charges a $70 processing fee themselves for processing something through Customs for you, paying the tariff for you so the package isn’t delayed and then enabling you to pay them back in advance of delivery on ups.com or the driver will ask for payment at the door when delivering your goods.

I had a $300 order (ordered late January, arrived last week) and was hit with the tariffs via UPS along with their bogus processing fee as another commenter mentioned. They wait for it to reach the US before holding it hostage. Would recommend using DHL if at all possible, as they make dealing with it a lot less painful.

Unless JLCPCB explicitly sold you under DDP terms[1], you&#x27;ll have to pay applicable tariffs. I&#x27;m 99% certain they did not do that, it&#x27;s usually explicitly mentioned. DigiKey for example has this as an explicit choice when I order to Norway.Here in Norway that also involves a service fee by express companies like UPS as paying tariffs means they can&#x27;t use a simplified customs declaration, and they typically front the payment to get you your goods ASAP. YMMV.edit: Seems I missed that Trump postponded[2] the low-value exemption, De Minimis, so your shipment is probably in the clear. But next one might not be.[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Incoterms#Allocations_of_costs_to_buyer&#x2F;seller_according_to_Incoterms_2020" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Incoterms#Allocations_of_costs...</a>[2]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.forbes.com&#x2F;sites&#x2F;saradorn&#x2F;2025&#x2F;02&#x2F;07&#x2F;trump-reinstates-de-minimis-tariff-exemption-for-shipments-under-800-boosting-shein-and-temu&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.forbes.com&#x2F;sites&#x2F;saradorn&#x2F;2025&#x2F;02&#x2F;07&#x2F;trump-reins...</a>

I have a PCBA order from JLCPCB that should ship any day now. Cost at checkout was a bit over $200, with no mention of tariffs. I&#x27;ve been wondering if I&#x27;m going to get hit with it by UPS. Has anyone else here had any experience with this yet?

&gt; For example, building a chip industry can take billions of dollars in investments and years of development.Worse than that... you also need all the other things in the &quot;ecosystem&quot; that support them chips, such as discrete components, circuit board fabrication, assembly, etc.

“One feature of tariffs is that it&#x27;s a tax on consumption, so it&#x27;s ultimately paid by consumers, and it&#x27;s a regressive tax; the wealthiest will pay the smallest ratio of their income and&#x2F;or wealth, while the working Joe will just see stuff getting more expensive - especially in the short term.”I don’t think it’s this simple. The wealthy fat cats that are making money producing their stuff overseas or simply operating as middlemen for overseas manufacturers are going to have a reduction of income and profits.Furthermore, it depends on how the revenue from tariffs were used. If revenue from tariffs is used to lower taxes for lower income citizens, it would be effectively a progressive tax.

Tariffs are just a tax. Similar to a sales tax, but it needs to be paid on import. To be clear, it&#x27;s a tax on your own citizens, not foreign exports.If a product is cheaply produced in another country, and your domestic industry cannot match that price, your domestic industry might disappear. Suppose that other country is subsidizing their industry, then it&#x27;s quite unfair, and it legitimizes supporting your own industry either by your own subsidies or retaliatory tariffs. As they say, to level the playing field.If the domestic industry is already dead, tariffs won&#x27;t magically resurrect it. For example, building a chip industry can take billions of dollars in investments and years of development. All that time, those taxes are basically just costing consumers money. They need to be kept in place up until the new factories come online AND are paid off. This can take decades. Will those tariffs still be there? Will those other countries have ALSO invested? Those uncertainties make it hard to invest in a dead&#x2F;dying industry, even with tariffs in place.One feature of tariffs is that it&#x27;s a tax on consumption, so it&#x27;s ultimately paid by consumers, and it&#x27;s a regressive tax; the wealthiest will pay the smallest ratio of their income and&#x2F;or wealth, while the working Joe will just see stuff getting more expensive - especially in the short term.Tariffs can work to retaliate against, and discourage, dumping. They can play a role in protecting vital industries. But arbitrarily imposing them for political points is a dangerous gambit.

If &quot;the cult of wealth&quot; is a thing, and wealthy people really think different than the rest of us, then a consequence is that the ultra wealthy absolutely shouldn&#x27;t be allowed to make the rules for the rest of us, or manage public institutions.

&gt; We are inclined to think that if you inherit almost the whole earth, you would be very grateful, kind and compassionate.Why would you be inclined to think that?Absolute power corrupts absolutely.Being greatful is not manufactured by having stuff.Being kind has nothing to do wtih what you have.I&#x27;m inclined to think that if someone inherit the whole earth you are1. A person who sought after that, which is bad2. Even if you were magically a good person before, will be ruined by it at a minimum the way winning the lottery ruins a person.3. Even if you survive 1-2 you will become famous and will have to cope with that insanity.

&gt; but that seems to benefit only a very small amount of industries.Entirely logical response from a normal person used to think and act in a normal, decent way.<pre><code> Criminals break into a museum. There is an artwork there, 4000(!) years old. The thieves wreck the artwork and smelt the gold that is inside it for a €225 profit.
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There is a phenomenon of &quot;The Cult of Wealth&quot;. Most people here cannot imagine how people with unlimited wealth, unlimited options, almost unlimited power think like.Have you seen the kids of the president ridicule the dying people in Ukraine? We are inclined to think that if you inherit almost the whole earth, you would be very grateful, kind and compassionate.Instead, they see the world in terms of just a handful of peers with the rest as resources to be extracted. We live in a world where we are brainwashed to think it is normal for corporate to call human beings &quot;Human Resources&quot;.---------------------------As soon as people learn to see what hides behind Trump and Doge, the networks that finance and selects people, they will lose the war. The theater is there to distract you, media will pick it up as bait but will not do the investigation of what it is. And so we are paralyzed by the news of the day.What society needs to do is to not accept abnormal and egregious behavior as normal. We all know what is decent human interaction, and the few can only take power over the mass, if the people consent to it -- be it actively or passively.

They wont be at first for sure. The vain hope is that it will settle out and eventually people will build manufacturing.

&gt; I understand this can help some US company to sell more products in their countryIf they are even able to satisfy the needs of the customer, either in quality, price or supply.

Unless people relocate automated manufacturing lines for export products outside US soil.Thus, they save the US 25% + 10% tariff off, and whatever symmetric 25% response trading partners inflict on the US exports. i.e. one would save 60% off, avoid an economically hostile customs process, and may shop around for better tax systems. If the US market is isolated from a multi-origin product, than just collect the 35% markup on all products before shipping into the US like the new programs already require.Best of luck, I don&#x27;t think people have really thought about this very much... =3

As someone that sells products that are assembled from components that are sold and manufactured globally.My customers pay me for product. Some of that pays employees. The assembly house. And for parts are are imported. The tariffs basically means I have to pay extra to the government so they can give it to bunch of wealthy financial parasites.

I am not sure I understand the implications of these tariff. Basically it means that products are becoming more expensive for people in the US. How is that a good thing for them?
I understand this can help some US company to sell more products in their country, but that seems to benefit only a very small amount of industries.

&gt; I wonder if this also applies to Mouser.Yes.&gt; I might have to just source from ChinaIt also applies to anything you source from China yourself. It&#x27;s an import tax. Any applicable goods or services introduced to the US market incur it.The one place it doesn&#x27;t apply is when Digi-Key (or Mouser) ship to outside the US, their warehouses are apparently transit areas. (Source: I ordered to Switzerland a few days ago. No tariffs. You can probably check yourself by creating an order.)

If you&#x27;re buying from China, you&#x27;ll be paying the Trump Sales Tax. And if you try to ship directly from China yourself, you&#x27;ll pay administrative fees to whoever handles the actual tax payment for you. For a few moments in early February before the administration began backtracking, DHL was charging a $32 fee for each shipment, even for a $1 trinket, and the other shippers (Cainao etc) were rapidly gearing up to do the same. The de minimis exemption for low-value goods was also briefly suspended, which is why the fees were so out of whack, and also why USPS momentarily stopped accepting shipments from China and Hong Kong: they didn&#x27;t have the infrastructure to suddenly deal with fees on huge volumes of packages.Buying your Chinese stuff through Mouser or Digikey or Arrow will spread that administrative fee across a whole shipping container of components. You&#x27;ll still be paying the tax, but the administrative costs will be amortized.

&gt; Another solution is to just live in ShenZhen when it&#x27;s applicable. The city is nice and vibrant, and you are treated pretty well as long as you don&#x27;t get into politics.That&#x27;s an extremely subtle way of saying &quot;keep your mouth shut&quot;.

I think tariff targets Chinese goods in general. Maybe you can source from ShenZhen in person but I&#x27;m not sure how the Custom office deals with this. I guess it&#x27;s OK as long as you don&#x27;t bring in quantity.Another solution is to just live in ShenZhen when it&#x27;s applicable. The city is nice and vibrant, and you are treated pretty well as long as you don&#x27;t get into politics.

There are also tariffs being applied to goods from China, so &quot;just source from China&quot; may not allow you to avoid the tariffs.

I wonder if this also applies to Mouser. I&#x27;ve been buying pretty much all of my components from there, but if it becomes much more expensive I might have to just source from China and learn to read their datasheets. Mouser has much better customer experience and Texas Instruments, Analog Devices etc. have much better chips and docs, but at some point the 10x less expensive Chinese clones (and these days even new Chinese made chips) will just become the rational choice.(With the assumption that this will be just the start of a trade war around chips)

I guess there&#x27;s always Goodwill, landfill. You can pull PCBs, desolder components.

&gt; Seriously though they have a lot of stock in their warehouseCompanies do not price things as they are now, or how much it cost in the inventory, but about how much they must charge to keep the business afloat. That means that prices will go up only because there&#x27;s a risk that prices would go up, so that in any event, they can cover whatever they need to keep operations on-going. While prices go up in both a high risk or no competitive markets, prices would only go down if there&#x27;s a competitive market.

I’d also like some insight on the foreign buyer bit as DigiKey is by far the best and most reliable supplier to my part of the world despite being the other side of an ocean.I pay local VAT and any local tariffs, all collected by DigiKey, and don’t think I pay any US taxes on the shipment.By intuition I’d think whatever US tariff wouldn’t apply, but these things don’t exactly make sense a lot of the time.Edit: Upon reading about the tariff drawback process, and these latest ones not being applicable to it - it does seem that I’ll be paying US tariffs for something [from China] that is then exported to me in another country.

Out of curiosity, can you tell me more about your hobby that involves ship to shore cranes? Or, is this an indirect way of saying that your hobby involves transoceanic shipping? This is Hackernews, so it could plausibly be either.

&gt; Seriously though they have a lot of stock in their warehouse.Given they didn&#x27;t have to pay tariffs before, I would assume they&#x27;ve declared all the goods and in that case yes.&gt; Does the duty only apply for domestic buyers?If you re-export goods that was previously imported without using it, like DigiKey, then at least here in EU you can apply to get the duties paid back. However it&#x27;s quite annoying if you import large quantities and sell small fractions. It works better if you do it on a 1-1 basis.Not 100% sure how it works in US, but in EU you can have a bonded warehouse, where you store goods before you perform the import declaration to free them for general use.This allows you to postpone the import declaration, and hence tariffs to be paid, to when you&#x27;ve sold the goods, or even avoid paying tariffs if you export the goods directly from the bonded warehouse.The latter part is very attractive to companies like DigiKey which sell a lot of their goods abroad.There are typically strict rules regarding getting a bonded warehouse license, with requirements for bookkeeping and physical separation with access control to avoid mistaking the bonded goods for normal non-bonded and hence technically smuggle goods into the country.This also affects who&#x27;s performing the import declaration. Pre-tariffs there&#x27;s usually not much incentive to do anything more fancy than letting someone else handle the import declarations. However the added bookkeeping and usually means the one responsible for the bonded warehouse is best suited to perform the declarations. At least here in EU there are companies that offer this as a service.Anyway the point was, if they didn&#x27;t already have a bonded warehouse and decide to go with one, it&#x27;s not just sending an email and get some approval. It might affect how DigiKey has to handle this goods deeply.

You don&#x27;t pay for how much the item in the store costs, you pay how much it will cost to restock it (see also: petrol&#x2F;gasoline prices changing throughout the week - it&#x27;s because there&#x27;s a fixed charge to refill the tanks, regardless of how much goes in).

Similarly my hobby involving ship to shore cranes is going to be painful.Seriously though they have a lot of stock in their warehouse. If this is already imported and paid for then it should be exempt right?The page doesnt state what happens to foreign customers. Does the duty only apply for domestic buyers?

Says semiconductors have a 50% extra tarriff. That includes LEDs, presumably.I&#x27;m trying to do some things with LEDs, and ouch.

I miss the &#x27;no new taxes&#x27; generation of conservatives

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