US Import duties
The Situation
25/09/09: LATEST NEWS!
All prices now include the 15% tariff (we are paying them, we did not raise prices).
The Shipping will be done with UPS DDP (Delivered Duty Paid), so there will be no extra charges at your door, as all the customs fees are already included. Of course, unfortunately, shipping got way more expensive with all that. Where we paid between 6 and 10 USD for a shipment before, it´s now roughly 55 USD.
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Starting August 29, 2025, the U.S. de-minimis rule has been removed. (Which Mr. Trump just announced end of july 2025)
- This means all imports from Germany, including our keychains, will be subject to 15% U.S. import duty.
- On top of that there will be significant fees collected by the shipping companies for handling the now way more complicated import process.
- Unfortunately, there is currently no way for us to prepay these duties and keep shipping affordable.
25/09/06: NEWS!
The fees UPS collects for the customs process are absolutely disproproportionate to the usual order value of our keychains. Consequently we stop offering shipping to the US for orders below $250 until we have new options.
25/08/22: NEWS!
DHL (and almost all other european shipping companies) will not ship consumer goods to the US via the global post network beginning 25/08/23 because of the unclear situation about who collects the new duties. That means our quite affordable shipping method will not be available anymore.
Only Option is UPS, which is way more expensive.
We don´t know how long this situation will last. As long as it does, we try to take over as much as possible of the shipping cost. The bigger your order, the lower the shipping extra will be...