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Dragon Slayer said:
@Girls with Guns
This might affect you.
www.bbc.co.uk

Royal Mail and DHL halt some US deliveries over tariffs

Services including Royal Mail and DHL say they are suspending deliveries until they have proper systems in place.
www.bbc.co.uk www.bbc.co.uk
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I do have 2 pre-orders placed with Anime-On-Line for three steelbooks, but they are for release dates 29/9 and 27/10, so hopefully things will be resolved by then. I could always tell them to hold the first order and ship them all together in October, if need be. And if I have to shell out a bit more to get my Blu-rays, it will be a fairly trivial amount to cover tariffs on just Blu-rays. It's my six outstanding pre-orders for scale figures from Japan that really have me worried, with those figures all around $200 or more - the extra costs from tariffs for those could be substantial. 😟
 
Girls with Guns said:
I do have 2 pre-orders placed with Anime-On-Line for three steelbooks, but they are for release dates 29/9 and 27/10, so hopefully things will be resolved by then. I could always tell them to hold the first order and ship them all together in October, if need be. And if I have to shell out a bit more to get my Blu-rays, it will be a fairly trivial amount to cover tariffs on just Blu-rays. It's my six outstanding pre-orders for scale figures from Japan that really have me worried, with those figures all around $200 or more - the extra costs from tariffs for those could be substantial. 😟
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Assuming everyone involved knows what they are doing, you should not have to. Recorded media such as blu-rays are in a category with a zero tariff rate; see here Harmonized Tariff Schedule.

The various executive orders can be difficult to read and follow all the ifs/ands/buts/ors, but items that have always been exempted such as this do not appear to be changed.

Your figures are likely made in China, and it's the country of origin on which the tariff rates are based, not the country where the company releasing is located or the country where they are shipped from. In the past, I know Amiami listed Japan as the country of origin on customs forms, but I don't know if they're still doing that; they aren't supposed to do it.

As I understand it for items from China (and I could be wrong given the uncertainty of so much of this) you get either the percentage, which is high for goods from China, at one point I think 50% but who knows really, or a minimum fee that if hasn't changed again I believe what I saw was $100 so that would mean if the percentage tariff value was $50, you would still pay $100, but if it was $120 you'd pay $120.
 
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Eight short works by Chainsaw Man creator Tatsuki Fujimoto—created between ages 17 and 26—are finally getting an anime adaptation. “Tatsuki Fujimoto 17–26” will stream worldwide exclusively on Prime Video starting Saturday, November 8.
藤本タツキが17歳から26歳までに描いた短編8作品が待望のアニメ化。『藤本タツキ17-26』を11月8日（土）Amazonの Prime Video（プライム・ビデオ）で世界独占配信決定

official
アニメ「藤本タツキ 17-26」公式サイト
 
Ian Wolf said:
Another anime review from The Guardian, this time of the new Demon Slayer film.

www.theguardian.com

Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle review – battle anime brings the visual flair

In the first of a film trilogy, teenage Tanjiro seeks vengeance for his murdered family in what is a great taste of things to come
www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
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Not Phil Hoad this time but Phuong Le and it's 4*! (To be fair to the Guardian, they published an article in 2003-ish (?) about Dragon Ball and Toriyama which was really well researched etc. at a time when no one knew anything about it over here. I'm sure I kept a copy of it...somewhere in my files... 🤔)
 
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