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I think it’s only polite that you disclose your affiliation to the Jehovah’s Witnesses before posting blind links to their religious material.
Unless it’s just a massive coincidence that your profile contact details on here link to their jw.org domain.

I think it’s only polite that you disclose your affiliation to the Jehovah’s Witnesses before posting blind links to their religious material.
Unless it’s just a massive coincidence that your profile contact details on here link to their jw.org domain.

Well with one country being run by a tit and the other country selling so much tat, it is quite apt that these tit for tat exchanges will go on for quite a while yet.

The Pyxis and Pyxis 12K price changes were initially right in line with the Chinese tax hike.  Then a day or two later, the Pyxis 12K price dropped to the Aussie rate.  BMD said they shifted enough to Australia to make that a thing.  They had also made a comment that they build some of their equipment in China and some in Australia.  At a guess, I'd say they focus on the high end where there's ostensibly more profit margin in Australia.  That or they just figured nobody would bother auditing them if they claimed it.  I'm sure that a big part of it was that nobody was going to buy Pyxis at $4k and the Pyxis 12K at $6600 was about $1,100 less than UC12K and unlikely to be purchased by anybody since anybody looking to spend $7k on a BMD camera probably already did with UC12K.  Like me.  I went on a crazy buying spree in the last month since I knew the tariffs were coming.  Now my credit card bills hate me (which is translating to my bank account hating me), but I do have some fancy gear now.
Anyway.  None of that detracts from your point about all of the prices being pure chaos.  In the reddit small business forum that I linked above, a bunch of people were complaining that foreign suppliers (mostly Chinese) were refusing to even do business with them, at least partly on the basis of insane and unpredictable US tariffs.

Sorry @eatstoomuchjam I can see how I’ve muddied the waters there as I was just illustrating how components of a system would attract different rates.
The Ursa Cine 12K and its media module would’ve been a great example of that if it was “Chinese” enough to get hit and as BM didn’t hike the price to reflect that then I’m guessing it isn’t.
But it might be later on today when the next random move happens.
And then rescinded the next day etc etc 
 
 

Here is the list of the new exemptions.
https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/USDHSCBP/bulletins/3db9e55
 
The general HTS code for cameras is 8025.
So they are not included in the list.
As it currently stands, if you buy the Ursa Cine 12K then you will be hit with 150% for the camera but not the media module.
All of this is “as it currently stands” because he’s probably not finished his morning double cheeseburger yet so is almost certainly subject to further “strategic alterations” and all the new tariffs are removed over the next two weeks.
I’m surprised they didn’t disappear in real time while I was reading the document.

Not locally owned any more but RED are still there.
And with significantly less cringe.

Not locally owned any more but RED are still there.
And with significantly less cringe.

When it was dawning on the hard of thinking here that Brexit was a load of old bollocks they just doubled down on the delusion using their weapon of choice, the piss poor home made sign.

 
The weapons of choice for Trump’s disciples when the penny drops might be a bit more problematic for him.

I think it’s only polite that you disclose your affiliation to the Jehovah’s Witnesses before posting blind links to their religious material.
Unless it’s just a massive coincidence that your profile contact details on here link to their jw.org domain.

When it was dawning on the hard of thinking here that Brexit was a load of old bollocks they just doubled down on the delusion using their weapon of choice, the piss poor home made sign.

 
The weapons of choice for Trump’s disciples when the penny drops might be a bit more problematic for him.

There is a path through this for Blackmagic and other camera manufacturers if this actually carries on which is to separate the hardware and the software elements of the camera.
Instead of paying 104% on the value of the whole camera they can bring it in as a dumb unit and pay the tariff on the absolute minimum component cost.
They can then establish a bare bones local US operation to put the firmware on after it leaves the docks and before it goes to dealers.
They could then import the dumb camera at a value of $1000 (or less) and then control the price increase to a more palatable level of $1040 as the firmware will be a separate US derived product so tariff free instead of the end user having to swallow the $5000 on the whole product.
There is precedent here of course with the way Panasonic and Sony etc offer software keys to make a product more powerful and this just takes it to it’s logical conclusion as you can’t get more powerful than actually doing anything at all !
On the upside for Trump this chicanery will create a job for someone local.
Just the one of course but, still, a lot of winning there.

There is a path through this for Blackmagic and other camera manufacturers if this actually carries on which is to separate the hardware and the software elements of the camera.
Instead of paying 104% on the value of the whole camera they can bring it in as a dumb unit and pay the tariff on the absolute minimum component cost.
They can then establish a bare bones local US operation to put the firmware on after it leaves the docks and before it goes to dealers.
They could then import the dumb camera at a value of $1000 (or less) and then control the price increase to a more palatable level of $1040 as the firmware will be a separate US derived product so tariff free instead of the end user having to swallow the $5000 on the whole product.
There is precedent here of course with the way Panasonic and Sony etc offer software keys to make a product more powerful and this just takes it to it’s logical conclusion as you can’t get more powerful than actually doing anything at all !
On the upside for Trump this chicanery will create a job for someone local.
Just the one of course but, still, a lot of winning there.

Yes, they appear to have exported a Manchurian Candidate to the US completely tariff free.
Well it did cost them the price of some new bedsheets sheets, a mop and a couple of MiniDV tapes but still a sweetheart deal.
I wonder if there was a 50% tariff on wives whether Trump would have paused for thought as they are the only things he seems to have any practical experience of importing.

Sanity Prevailing Update :
Trump has just said he will add an ADDITIONAL 50% if China don’t withdraw their retaliatiory tariff by tomorrow.

 

Sanity Prevailing Update :
Trump has just said he will add an ADDITIONAL 50% if China don’t withdraw their retaliatiory tariff by tomorrow.

 

It’s paid by the importer and then passed directly on to the consumer, though fixed costs such as handling and transport fees after the port of entry mean that the calculation isn’t always a straight addition to the current retail price as those costs don’t include any additional increase.
The original $4995 is now $6595.
If they’d added the whole 34% directly on (which is on top of an existing 20% by the way) then it would be $6693.
The reason for it not being that much is that fixed costs such as US based handling and transportation charges do not carry the tariff.
 
 

The US price has now been updated to incorporate the tariffs.

A $1600 increase then.
If I was in the US, I think I’d be holding off on that pre-order for a while until the presumably inevitable walk back.
 

Sorry, I was referring more to making the purchasing decisions based on evaluating all the options from the different manufacturers rather than physically buying them there and taking them away.
I have been involved in deals being signed at many NAB shows in a previous life which I doubt will be happening this time due to the uncertainty.
B&H Photo are, of course, happy to take orders from their booth for shipping from their HQ but, yes, the NAB is by and large a safe space for instant GAS gratification !
They have other outlets in Vegas for that.