i've had this canti cable stop in my watch list for a month now... it is priced at 13 bucks, US.. shipping WAS $15 and change...
now, just today.. shipping jumped to EIGHTY NINE DOLLARS, and a note about Import taxes was added to the listing....

https://www.ebay.com/itm/192612851018

anyone else seen similar effects of the US import tax on bike parts and supplies?
Hopefully, Not as dramatic as this example..

That isn't an import tax- the vendor is charging a lot for shipping.
Just buy one stateside.

https://365cycles.com/products/origi...0aAn8vEALw_wcB

Wby didn’t you buy it back then?

No. It is not real. Tariffs on such items are not paid by the seller and passed on to you. You must pay the tariffs to the delivery service, based upon the declared value of the package. I've exported thousands of items to places around the world, and know how the process works. Most sellers will absorb much, if not all the difference to retain their traffic, so you'll notice little, if any difference in prices. The rate for Germany is 15%, and $89 is not 15% more than $15. If you think that is unfair, Europe has for decades been charging 20% and higher taxes and tariffs on American and Asian goods with no de minimus exemption, where, until the end of this month, America has charged zero tariffs and taxes on de minimus goods from Europe and Asia. The tariffs are going to bite into my business, but I can't claim that they aren't fair.

as I understand it , sellers pay eBay fees on the item price, not on shipping charge - minimizing the item price while jacking up shipping is an old eBay ripoff/trick to circumvent fees - nothing to see here 🙄

There had been an exemption from tariffs from small volume items (less than $800) which was useful when buying items from vendors in Japan, Europe, etc. I used to buy bike stuff from some of the UK, Japanese, and German mail order places. That de minimis exception is gone by executive order. But the same exception that let me and others here buy small items was also used to build large ecommerce companies that circumvented tariffs. And tariffs have gone up considerably under the Trump administration. These are the highest tariffs since Hoover signed the Smoot Hawley act into law to deal with the Depression . . .

https://www.cnn.com/business/live-ne...ffect-08-07-25

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/b...ffs-japan.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoot%...ley_Tariff_Act

20k CND for the new Synapse LAB71.

Its real

Check out the tariffs on this one!

At least the seller is offering free shipping.

many historians opine that Tariffs were an underlying cause of the 1st US civil war ................... as of now my LBS has not been affected

We were warning about this from the beginning.

Again though, the OP'S example isn't tariff based.

the taxes that We Pay were recently implemented... anbd the EU, as a whole, reciprocated... the delay was to give the taxers cover.
snap out of the daze and denial soon, ok?

Plenty of international carriers have suspended shipping to the US because of all the tariff uncertainties.
Those who are still active have raised their prices accordingly.

In my case the minimum appears to be €52 for a 500 gram envelope, €55 for a 1 kilogram package.

Gee, how many threads do we have to have, rehashing the politics of tariffs?

i guess you Missed the noting of the previous "shipping fee" from Germany.
"shipping" was $15 and change, now at $89 ddddddollars...
see: 250% Tariff on EU Products... that increases the Total cost... Ebay even tells people that the Tariffs will be added to the "Shipping" since it's imposed only on Shipments coming into the USA.
YIKES! a SIX FOLD INCREASE .

If someone was being smart, they'd drop the item cost to near zero, then tack on a bit to shipping... although, Ebay has policies and filters in place to "catch" the ebay-fee dodgers that do things like that..
i'd divide the actual product sale price by 2.5, then make that the new sale price, and bump the shipping the same amount deducted from the original sale price........... then watch to see if 'bay catches the shift, and even approves ..

my tariff example is not "circumventing" anything... it's a stopper.... i dumped that item from my wish list. It smacks of Confusion Period Gouging!
https://thumbs.dreamstime.com/z/red-...-197605382.jpg

Ebay fees now apply to shipping too.

huh.. not aware of that change in policy... could you please post evidence of this?

You are straight cracked if you think I am a fan of the global economic chaos that the last 9 months of tariff talk has created.
I dislike it. I do not support it. The end result is not a win for Americans.

I am able to dislike the tariffs while also recognizing your example is not due to tariffs.
Your example is literally shipping based. And if you go on custom junkies website, the shipping is high there too. A high shipping cost is not a tariff.
That isn't a tariff example.

My gosh.

As I understand it, the current US tariff rate on imports from the EU is 15%...And you believe that this has caused an increase of 3x-4x in the total cost of this item?

Really?

PS: I think your keyboard's "D" key is sticking. I recommend compressed air.

do you need to lie down in a darkened room for a while?🤔

The product and shipping was $28, per the OP.
The first response in the thread includes a link for the OP to purchase the same cable stop design from a domestic vendor for $27.48...so ever so slightly less.


Even if the price increase was due to tariffs, which it isn't, the OP could easily purchase the same cable stop design for at or under the other product's price.
That is some misdirected anger for sure.

so i guess the seller is just GOUGING, then... as i alluded to elsewhere..
when i first saw that crazy "shipping" increase, i nearly typed a trolling message to the gouger... then, i saw the Ebay note, and assumed it was tariffs, since Don HAD proposed a 250% Tariff on the EU, as a whole...
funny how some provide info here, and others just pounce without any real thought, some get really angry, and still others tend to mix pouncing with info, eh?
i'll be watching and laughing about it.
Tariffs are Taxes, and those Taxes are being paid by us, the consumers.
gougers will use the confusion to gouge, hoping it camoflages their greed.

as i said , that part is no longer on my wish list, regardless of the price increase motivation.
too much is just too much.
with shipping, it was too much to begin with.
my Marzocchi Superfly will just have to continue wearing a chromed cast iron paperweight for a cable stop.... and some greedy guy in Germany will be sitting on a lighter one..

Now you are saying it's price gouging? Why do yout say that? What motivation would customjunkies have in trying to make US customers pay such high shipping costs? They are clearly losing out on sales with that shipping price, so it is set there because it has to be to cover their costs. No modern online retailer sets shipping that high because they want to.


You don't understand what is impacted by tariffs and you don't understand why shipping is priced high.
I can't wait to see what you misunderstand next.