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Just wondering, will the new tariffs increase the cost of a violin from China?
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Hi gwalmer. I asked a similar question on this forum a month ago. Fiddlerman, who should know since he personally is involved with Asian instrument import, said no significant price increase has occurred yet.
I can tell you that I have noticed something odd with eBay regarding the second hand market. I scan several categories of auctions on a daily basis and, so far, September has been unique. I had thought that with the start of school that the site should be flooded with instruments. The month is more than half gone and I have yet to see anything of interest.
Multiple “professional” auctions were posted on the same day for new electric violin packages with shipping and, a few days later, new acoustic cello packages with shipping with buy it now prices much less than the cost of postage. I think these were a fraud (50 auctions for cellos at $25 is still $1225 when you don’t send anything).
Success is the progressive realisation of a worthy ideal. —Earl Nightingale.
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Imagine if a rehair cost $1,000!
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The Office of the United States Trade Representative posted this crazy long list of 5,745 items covered by the new $200 billion in tariffs on Chinese imports:
https://ustr.gov/sites/default......17.18.pdf
It starts with 10% on September 24th and goes up to 25% in January.
For whatever it's worth, I searched the list for: "violin", "instruments" and "music" and only got this one hit:
This is the Trade Office article that links to the above pdf:
https://ustr.gov/about-us/poli.....ariffs-200
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BAM has got to be loving that. One wonders if there are any domestic manufacturers of instrument cases left to protect?
Success is the progressive realisation of a worthy ideal. —Earl Nightingale.
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