Amazon.ca prices seem to have gone up on Taiwan products even when Canada has no tariffs on them. Coffee too.
Whether Apple is making phones for US customers in India, China, or Taiwan, tariffs are applied to them for US customers. Tim Cook said US prices are not affected by tariffs. That means our prices are used to subsidize US customers.
It’s a little bit normal, historically, for Canadian prices to be a bit higher to deal with currency volatility without changing prices. But 20% US tariffs on Taiwan, with 50% on China and India, would normally result in at least a 20% discount for Canada.
Government inquiry followed by fine is ok. Forcing Apple to immediately normalize prices would be far more effective pressure overall on US trade policy.
Amazon.ca should be boycotted, I wish AWS could be boycotted as well.
Force amazon to stop overcharging me to help them lower prices for Americans, and I’m happy enough. Is there an alternative that is not overcharging us, post below.
Yeah, buying at brick and mortar and twisting their arm using price matching.
I get my electronics from Canada Computers and Best Buy, for example. My food is all locally purchased, and I do my best to purchase local, too.
There are a few bespoke items I need to get online, like replacement lava lamp bulbs, but I look at other online retailers first.
I don’t use Amazon, when one of their Quebec warehouses unionized, they threw a hissy tantrum like a 3 year old and closed all their Quebec warehouses out of spite.
From my understanding, the issue is that the existing supply chain in North America starts in The USA.
For example when Nintendo ships in a pallet of hardware, it gets Tariffed then goes to Canada and Mexico in freight.
What needs to happen (again to my understanding) is that companies need to start importing into Canada directly, which is no easy feat if our ports don’t have the capacity, and in short notice.
For now the result is we get Tariffed on our items by the USA.
Not true tariffs are applied for final destination country. So if they go through America but finale destination is Canada or Mexico there should be no tariffs.
That would only apply if the goods were being transferred directly from the ship to a train/truck/ship bound for Canada. That is to say, they are not sent through customs and received to a US warehouse.
That’s usually not what happens. Apple (or whoever) typically receive their goods to their US warehouse, pay tariffs, and then package and ship to Canada.
Not sure if coffee is the same. I don’t like the excuse, as your “workaround” made sense from day 1. For computer parts, Canada had a direct supply chain to Asia since 1980s. The lack of divergence from US prices which should be 20%-50% higher due to tariffs, is the supplier end contributing to subsidizing prices for US by makign smooth brained people accept extortionist prices without tariffs.
Why not buy coffee roasted locally instead of buying it online? The beans are imported directly to Canada.
I don’t buy coffee online. No Frills prices seem to have matched US tariff date increases. There are Canadian roasting operations, but maybe they get beans transshipped from US. But cutting out US completely, and even exporting to US for lower tariff than Brazil beans supply chain. Brazil especially has a shipping route to Montreal or Halifax, not much longer than US ports.
What could be happening instead is that any Canadian cost savings just go to higher Canadian profits in response to less competitive US based company pricing. US brands making Canadian and US prices equal as a response to US tariffs, and Canadians extorted from all brands.
Corporatism being more afraid of US fascism than Canadian politicians to make the world pay for US tariffs. Canadian politicians gaslighting Canadians that these practices are acceptable is treasonous, and not a path to getting US to accept the humanity of Canadians.
