I ordered a new headlight lid from Amayama - $104.73. That's it, one item. Paid for it. They send it. UPS sent me a note today that $257.43 is due upon delivery, pay the driver. $243.43 is "Government Charges, $14.00 is UPS brokers fee. Gotta be a mistake, right? Problem is that UPS is not answering their phone. I have no choice but to refuse delivery, sure as heck not paying a 250% tariff.

 

Making America Great Again

 

I thought Amayama paid the tariffs . But at least the billionaires can enjoy their tax breaks.
But jokes aside, it sucks. But at least now the Sakebomb headlight lids in aluminum seem like a cheaper choice.

 

I just paid $35 in fees for a $70 part i purchased on ebay from Japan. I tried calling DHL... waited on hold for 45 mins and then it hung up on me.

 

That doesn’t seem correct. I paid about 35% duty to DHL for an Amayama order a couple months ago which was in line with the tariffs at the time. Should be lower now that the 15% tariff is in effect. The broker fee won’t change though.

 

What was the reason for not buying at a local dealership or ordering from a US based website like Tasca? There's no reason to use amayama for things like that.

 

Even if you purchase from a dealer in the USA, if the product was manufactured in a foreign country, the applicable tariffs will be charged by US Customs when the product is imported & crosses the US border. UPS, FEDEX or whoever the shipper is will tack on their "admin fees" too with such imported transactions. So in effect, once existing stock is depleted from the US dealer and they have to import the product to fulfill your order, you can count on the tariff/shipper fees being tacked on upon delivery - no dealer/distributer is going to eat those tariffs, the end buyer ends up paying.

As a case in point, I've recently been researching CAN I/O expansion boxes, and I like this particular product: https://www.canchecked.de/mce18-can-bus-extension/
It's manufactured by a German company, and distributed/sold by a bunch of online retailers located in the US and elsewhere. "Street price" for this thing is around $250, but many of the US based dealers warn you on their website that you'll also have to pay tariffs upon delivery because the item is imported from Germany, while others don't mention this. My guess is the US dealers who don't warn you about the tariff either have existing stock in the US before tariff collection started to fulfill your order, OR they are just going to surprise you with a COD tariff collection fee upon delivery.

 

It is going to get more gruesome.

Friend sold some wheels to the US. They got stuck on all the additional documentation. Courier firm charges $300 for "storage" while documents got sorted out. All-in all shipping/customs related cost ended up being $700.

The removal of the "deminimus exemption", rightly or wrongly, is going to be very very disruptive

 

Many of the on-line parts suppliers, including Tasca, say they have the part, then tell you they don't, after you have already paid.

 

You have to do it by e-mail. it's slow, I went through this back in February when this was just starting for a water pump, they wanted $280 for a $300 pump. I told them to send it back because I wasn't paying it. It took 3 or 4 months to get sorted. rsaffina@ups.com was the person that was finally able to get it all sorted for me, just remember to be polite and provide all the information that they'll need (they're probably overworked and underpaid through all this as well).

 

I wonder what Ray Crowe's price is for this...

 

With 30% of the S&P 500 represented by only 7 companies, immense over building in AI, and the Ponzi of crypto, the coming recession should be a real hoot!
Like 2008 on steroids.

 

I own am part owner of online Karting store and we just got hit in the head with tarifs. We lost a bit of money on customers who ordered items and then they told us they were getting billed for additional shipping cost. We took the hit so our customers would not. We momentarily shut the store down while we figure things out since most of our parts come from Europe and Canada. I get it so i will adjust and try to find products here in the USA. I am on board with the made in America and we will find a way.

 

4-5 years ago I bought a set of these https://www.ebay.com/itm/303896923509 for $1.99 SHIPPED from China. See what they'd be today. LOL

 

Wondering the same, but I suspect that if the parts Ray is getting you got past the US border and into Mazda's US supply system BEFORE the date that the tariffs kicked in, the old pricing applies. It took a couple of weeks, but Ray got me my OEM FD windshield & related OEM trim bits to do the windshield replacement with zero pricing surprises.

 

I am seeing prices on Buyee (Yahoo Japan) rising across the board. You'd might think they'd drop if sales to the US are effectively cut off.

But perhaps if sellers are thinking they will sell fewer units, they may raise the prices on the few they can sell.

(Prices were already trending up, perhaps with decreased supply.)

 

But the profits made on AI stocks this year has been incredible

 

Head for the hills ! And take a gold pan with you.

 

In all seriousness though I want to order a resonated MP and am curious to see what the tariff costs will be (from Racing Beat).

 

Find an equivalent in Japan. Have Jesse Streeter ship it by seamail.

 

I am curious what you paid for the windshield through Ray? Did you have to pay freight shipping or are you local to him? The quotes I was seeing for factory glass were really expensive, but I never reached out to Ray, figuring the shipping would make it not worth it.

 

I'm lucky enough to live about a 20 minute drive from the Mazda dealership Ray gets his parts through (Nucar, in New Castle, DE), so I didn't have to pay any shipping/freight charges. His price for the windshield was $713.xx, retail is $921.xx. The rest of the 3~4 OEM parts for the windshield install (moldings & various installation bits) cost me about $150 total. Since the Nucar collision shop was also highly recommended by a few friends, and after talking to the body shop glass tech myself when I went with the FD to get an estimate, I decided to give them the job. Which also saves me the hassle of moving my new windshield from Nucar to whatever other local shop I might have used to do the job.

 

It sounds like you're getting scammed by somebody. The new tariff rates are reciprocal and are only 12.5% more than what they used to be.

Here's a recent article that I came across online: "Japanese autos and auto parts will be taxed at a 15% tariff rate in a trade deal President Trump announced by executive order released Friday morning (9/5/2025). This relieves the tariff on cars and trucks assembled in Japan from the 27.5% Trump ordered April 2, but it’s still far higher than the pre-“Liberation Day” level of 2.5%, according to Minnesota Public Radio’s Marketplace Morning Report."

 

i'm trying to get a set of pulleys and ive been told to expect it to be the 50% aluminum tariff and not the 27% auto parts tariff.

 

That's right. There's still the 50% aluminum tariff for imports from Japan, but there are still negotiations regarding that tariff. Auto part made of aluminum is a gray area. Buy US, if possible. It's interesting that aluminum aircraft parts made in Japan and sold to the US are not subject to that 50% tariff.