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[adamsapple]

US Tariffs and Regulations:
Ahead of the United States de minimis and tariff changes effective August 29, 2025, we would like to provide clarification to our customers regarding Playasia and our import services.

No disruption of services:
All Playasia shipping services will remain operational and function without any hindrance to our customers. Packages destined for the United States will be shipped as planned. This will remain unchanged once regulations are in place.

Existing orders covered by Playasia:
All existing orders placed before August 29, 2025, will not be subject to additional fees upon receipt of the package, even if the order ships after this date. Any unforeseen tariff duties or fees that would arise for these packages to the United States will be covered by Playasia prior to shipment.

Collecting duty and tariffs:
To comply with new regulations all Playasia shipping methods to the United States starting August 28, 2025 will have duties and fees paid by the customer at the time of checkout. This will ensure that no matter how your order is shipped, there will be no surprise fees when receiving your order.

Please note that all orders shipped via Economy will have the duties and fees consolidated into the shipping cost displayed at checkout.

 

[R3TRO]

Can't stop winning.

 

[S0ULZB0URNE]

What about already pre-ordered, pre-orders?

 

[adamsapple]

What about already pre-ordered, pre-orders?

Anything before today will be honored without the import duty.

 

[Mister Wolf]

Guess they'll be losing out on tons of money from the lack of purchases.

 

[pqueue]

Making
Asian
Goods
(un)Affordable

 

[deriks]

Brazilians:

 

[pqueue]

without the import duty.

you said doody.

 

[kazuyamishima]

It feels nice to receive goods without 30% extra here in Kangarooland (sucks for the US tho).

 

[Punished Miku]

Lowering your own standard of living to own the libs. Bravo. Going to be owning less of everything else though, literally.

 

[kruis]

Anything before today will be honored without the import duty.

That's going to cost them lots of money. And on top of that they'll lose most of their us customers with these changes.

 

[Generic]

Still lower than Brazil.

 

[Skifi28]

Fucking Sony

 

[Judge Magister]

 

[YeulEmeralda]

Impressive the Netherlands VAT is "only" 21%.

 

[kazuyamishima]

 

[NeverYouMind]

 

[Soltype]

Guess they'll be losing out on tons of money from the lack of purchases.

That's what I was thinking, this stuff isn't food or gas so it's going to be on the chopping block for most people.

 

[nial]

 

[Plies]

 

[near]

Feels bad. What about Amazon Japan?

 

[reinking]

 

[//DEVIL//]

Guess they'll be losing out on tons of money from the lack of purchases.

US isnt their only customer. and some people don't care and just throw money if they want something. especially if things that can be found no where but that east part of the world.

They will also lose business too of course. but for the most part they will be fine. its people in the US that are affected by this more than anyone honestly.

 

[Ashamam]

Guess they'll be losing out on tons of money from the lack of purchases.

The fuck? You expect them to pay the tariffs on your behalf? Some of you over there need to do some reading on what a tariff actually is.......

 

[diffusionx]

Oh no I guess I have people have to pay more for their cringe Cloud husbando statues.

 

[Gambit2483]

Guess they'll be losing out on tons of money from the lack of purchases.

Ordered something from them 2 weeks ago. That will, unfortunately, be the last thing I order from them in a very very long time.

Unbelievable one man is possibly going to wreck the global economy

 

[flying_sq]

Weeaboo tax

 

[reinking]

Weeaboo tax

 

[StereoVsn]

The fuck? You expect them to pay the tariffs on your behalf? Some of you over there need to do some reading on what a tariff actually is.......

I am over here and I think some believed the Orange One when he said the other countries are paying the tariffs.

It's not just the tariff btw, de minimus exemption is gone too. Most of Europe and Asia won't even ship through post anymore, have to use courier service like DHL.

I am guessing Amazon Japan will jack up prices as well. But I wonder about VGP now too.

Anyways, this sucks but I feel so liberated.

 

[cinnamonandgravy]

Lowering your own standard of living to own the libs. Bravo. Going to be owning less of everything else though, literally.

having china manufacture everything is going super great
great plan, world

 

[MrKainobi]

I am over here and I think some believed the Orange One when he said the other countries are paying the tariffs.

Worked with the Mexican border wall the first time, so…

 

[Fbh]

Don't worry guys.
Right now tons of companies are rushing to open factories to make anime figures in the US

 

[StereoVsn]

having china manufacture everything is going super great
great plan, world

Do you think that we are going to manufacture consumer electronics (at least on the lower end), video game disks / packages, cell phones and so on in US?

Tariffs make sense to juice up certain industries. Blanket tariffs will result in higher cost to US consumers, higher inflation, lower GDP and more "fun" stuff like that.

But hey, we got the "BBB" passed so the top 1% can get even richer and tariff revenue can paper over at least some gaps, so it's a WIN, let's give ourselves a .

 

[StereoVsn]

Don't worry guys.
Right now towns of companies are rushing to open factories to make anime figures in the US

Ohio will be the new weeb manufacturing capital of United States! We will rename Cleveland to Osaka!

 

[Ashamam]

Most of Europe and Asia won't even ship through post anymore

Yeah Auspost pulled the plug the other day, they handled a lot of transhipment to the US from our region I believe. Scrambling to set up some sort of system to handle taking the tariff from US buyers before on-shipping I think.

 

[Plies]

Don't worry guys.
Right now tons of companies are rushing to open factories to make anime figures in the US

This might be the best thing to come from tariffs.

 

[Portugeezer]

Just make a PlayAsia in the US.

 

[StereoVsn]

Yeah Auspost pulled the plug the other day, they handled a lot of transhipment to the US from the region I believe. Scrambling to set up some sort of system to handle taking the tariff from US buyers before on-shipping I believe.

On US side there is no solid system to process tariffs on billions of packages coming in. It's going to be sheer madness for a while.

 

[Mister Wolf]

The fuck? You expect them to pay the tariffs on your behalf? Some of you over there need to do some reading on what a tariff actually is.......

They can either eat the tariff or lose customers. Either way they're the one getting fucked.

 

[Badlucktroll]

 

[adamsapple]

Just make a PlayAsia in the US.

 

[Ashamam]

They can either eat the tariff or lose customers. Either way they're the one getting fucked.

Depends how big a market the US is for them I guess. But the general consensus outside of your bubble is that your country now carries significant sovereign risk and decoupling or diversifying is a very good idea. End result will be net negative to consumers in the US and reduced living standards. So the true answer is, if they are the ones getting fucked, they sure aren't the only ones.

 

[Sakura]

They can either eat the tariff or lose customers. Either way they're the one getting fucked.

No one is going to eat those kinds of tarrifs. It's not like PlayAsia are the only ones who are going to be doing this.

 

[Mister Wolf]

No one is going to eat those kinds of tarrifs. It's not like PlayAsia are the only ones who are going to be doing this.

It is what it is. I guess they'll find out how important those resin statues really are to the market.

 

[ToneyJ]

This is just Play-Asia being greedy out of the blue. Nothing to do with the tariffs, right Trump-tards?

 

[StereoVsn]

It is what it is. I guess they'll find out how important those resin statues really are to the market.

You do understand that these fairly small businesses can't possibly take new tariffs on the chin, right?

Yes, they will lose a lot of the customer base, but US customers will lose out even more. It's not just the stupid figurines, it's going to be most things that used to be shipped for free under $800.

Edit: and of course pretty much everything coming from rest of the world will get hit by 15% to 35-40% tariff so prices will go up on a lot of things.

 

[Plies]

This is just Play-Asia being greedy out of the blue. Nothing to do with the tariffs, right Trump-tards?

No politics.

 

[Kacho]

Oh no I guess I have people have to pay more for their cringe Cloud husbando statues.

I laughed way too hard at this

 

[LiquidMetal14]

Good for me!

 

[Mr Moose]

Checks out, Hong Kong has 30% tariffs.