important Tariff information relating to all orders and shipments to the U.s.a.

Tarriff Update as at Jan 17, 2026

*** Please note that in August of 2025, the President of the United States unilaterally signed an Executive Order cancelling the long-standing De Minimis tax exemption [on all shipments valued at less than $800] resulting in steep tariffs on all goods - regardless of the value - shipping from Canada into the United States. In an ass-backwards approach and rather than the tariffs, taxes and duties being collected at time of delivery, we here in Canada are required to prepay these tariffs in advance and prior to shipping to the US, and then add those additional fees to the final sale, effectively passing the tariffs through to the [US] consumer. This is the US President’s way of trying to hide the devastating effect that these tariffs are having on the average US citizen.

To calculate these tariffs, it is now mandatory that we use the Zonos Prepay app which scans a picture of the item, and using AI, it arbitrarily determines the makeup of the item and guess-timates country of origin, and then subjectively determines the value of the item upon which it calculates the tariffs, duties and taxes owed. Frankly this app is bogus. We put it through a series of tests where we submitted for example a picture of our standard SG CTS wiring harness kit, and the app came back and determined that the country of origin was - China - and it promptly assessed a 35% tariff! Unfortunately all of these tariffs, duties and taxes will be added to the base purchase price of our products and passed on to the [US] consumer.

Going forward, all US-bound orders will be assessed these additional tariffs, duties and taxes and added to the cost of goods, the full amount of which will be payable in advance in USD via PayPal. As expected, these tariffs are having a significant negative impact on our relationship with our US customer base however we are grateful to those who continue to order from us.

This senseless one-man trade war will pass and maybe one day things will get back to what was once normal, in the meantime we just have to buckle up, hunker down, and figure out how best to ride out the storm!

peace out