Trade wars and Frame Delivery

[klindsey00]

Parlee is real.

And 5500USD+ a framset

Maybe we'll see more US produced carbon bikes move past the vaporware point.

https://bikerumor.com/lemond-8-carbon-road-bike/

They would also want an arm, a leg, and your left kidney

[jerozilla]

Maybe we'll see more US produced carbon bikes move past the vaporware point.

https://bikerumor.com/lemond-8-carbon-road-bike/

Unlikely the skilled labour and tooling it takes just isn't that big of a thing in the USA and as soon as it's USA based you're looking at $5k frames typically (Enve, Parlee, etc).

[bremerradkurier]

Unlikely the skilled labour and tooling it takes just isn't that big of a thing in the USA and as soon as it's USA based you're looking at $5k frames typically (Enve, Parlee, etc).

MSRP for current year S-works framesets is $5500 and Pinarello Dogma are almost $7k for Taiwan/western mainland Taiwan production.

The skilled labor and tooling probably also exist between aerospace and maybe even the surfboard/sailboat industries

[danymax]

I placed an order for a light carbon frame mid March, I ordered a new model that is yet to be released and I was told it would be shipped the first week of May, at that time I wasn't expecting all this tariff nonsense to escalate to this point. The frame hasn't shipped yet, I'm in the US, how screwed am I? would the fact that the invoice shows as paid in March be of any use to avoid tariffs? Should I try to cancel the order?

[00Garza]

I placed an order for a light carbon frame mid March, I ordered a new model that is yet to be released and I was told it would be shipped the first week of May, at that time I wasn't expecting all this tariff nonsense to escalate to this point. The frame hasn't shipped yet, I'm in the US, how screwed am I? would the fact that the invoice shows as paid in March be of any use to avoid tariffs? Should I try to cancel the order?

Tariffs are applied at arrival. Date of purchase won’t matter unfortunately. Unless you’re wanting to deal with the possibility of paying ridiculous fees, the safe bet is to cancel. Get your money back and see how this all plays out. You can try ordering later if it’s still within budget.

[Blueberry]

I placed an order for a light carbon frame mid March, I ordered a new model that is yet to be released and I was told it would be shipped the first week of May, at that time I wasn't expecting all this tariff nonsense to escalate to this point. The frame hasn't shipped yet, I'm in the US, how screwed am I? would the fact that the invoice shows as paid in March be of any use to avoid tariffs? Should I try to cancel the order?

I bet they'll declare the value as a lot less than you actually paid. You could ask them to send you a copy of the commercial invoice when they ship it so you can check what value they declare (that's what the tariff should be based on). If you don't want to pay, you can probably refuse to receive the shipment. It would be a big bummer to go through that and not receive it though :/