love this!
you the man!
I’ll order and test.
Maybe they have brown which has been impossible to find.
Here’s some multicolor 64D which people also reported as working in an AMS:
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You should be able to search for D shore hardness TPU (64D and 68D are the most common) and it will work in AMS. There are a few on amazon. TPU for AMS is nothing special, just a hard TPU.
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I did a panic buy on filament the day the tariffs were announced but not yet in effect from an aliexpress shipper who claimed to have a us warehouse, so i figure anything already there was protected. I figure I’ll use it eventually as long as i store it properly.
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Goods under $800 fall under ‘de minimis’. Trump is trying to kill that but thats not until May 2nd for China, so order up.
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I spent two days hunting online for something like this.
I found many offerings but not Brown which is the color we desperately need right now 
I’ll check to see if they have brown with luck.
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I guess that proves i really did panic buy. 
I didn’t need to. At least not yet.
thank you truly and hoping there is a football brown.
luck!!!
Goods you import from China fall under de minimis, not all goods.
It’s getting risky, if you are going to order from an AliExpress seller shipping from China and it doesn’t get here before May 2nd it will be stuck in the tidal wave of packages suddenly hitting customs.
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Thats what i meant, thanks. 
Might check dates. BBC says 54% tariffs on China start April 9. 20% is in effect now with an additional 34% added April 9.
I believe this is the breakdown,
For China.
20% - Already in place
10% - went in to place today
The remaining 24% - Goes in on 4/9
Total 54%
"ending duty-free de minimis treatment for covered goods from the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and Hong Kong starting May 2, 2025 at 12:01 a.m. EDT.
- Imported goods sent through means other than the international postal network that are valued at or under $800 and that would otherwise qualify for the de minimis exemption will be subject to all applicable duties, which shall be paid in accordance with applicable entry and payment procedures.
- All relevant postal items containing goods that are sent through the international postal network that are valued at or under $800 and that would otherwise qualify for the de minimis exemption are subject to a duty rate of either 30% of their value or $25 per item (increasing to $50 per item after June 1, 2025). This is in lieu of any other duties, including those imposed by prior Orders.
This must be posturing, because i don’t see how this rapid a change of this magnitude across the board can stick without civilization becoming unglued
I don’t think it was intended as posturing. They just thought it would fly and it’s not even close. The realities will be setting in and I’d bet the tariffs get scaled back. They really seem to think they were being clever instead of totally disrupting world trade. We have rank amateurs calling these shots.
Whoever came up with the formula they used (apparently chatgpt) did the calculations wrong and so the tariffs going into effect are wrong.
But how long before they admit the error and fix it? They don’t like to admit to screwups and there have been so, so many.
Maybe sitting tight might be the best for now? Who wants to be the last person to pay that 54% tariff?
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+1.
Personally, I think it is as simple as this is what he can do without needing congress to back him. He can do it unilaterally, so it’s a power he’s wielding because it’s the only power he can do that without backing.
On this, unfortunately, this is EXACTLY what he is worried about. He only cares about the trade imbalance. He sees the difference in import/export and wants that equalized or in the US’s favor. So, for his goals… the calculation is perfect. I think this thought process is silly, but it is what it is. For example, Madagascar exports vanilla beans to us (LOTS of them). But they don’t buy much from us (as a poor country, that makes sense as they literally can’t afford to buy from us), so they will have a significant trade imbalance (thus the high reciprocal tariff). Also, I’ve seen that Chat GPT came up with a better overall plan, so that rumor is debunked. LOL, funny though, had he used Chat GPT, the economy might be better off. However, it’s possible they used Grok though, I haven’t seen Grok’s response to fixing the imbalance so I can’t speak to that.
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Whatever it is, it’s a mess. They fire people, find out oops, they were essential, and try to hire them back and do it over and over. I guess measure twice and cut once is a foreign concept. All this tariff nonsense - it’s not a good time to be participating in the world economy.
Talk about stress-testing the banking/securities/trade systems. It’s like playing Russian roulette with 4 live rounds. Or is that 5?
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I wonder if they are going to end up regretting this in the Cyberbrick campaign
As i understand it, in theory they’re supposed to be mirror images of the tariffs directed at the US. It seems to have exceeded that, but the hope is motivate both sides to back down in a mirrored fashion to no tariffs. Well, that’s one interpretation. Who knows.
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The explanation (and the labels on his chart) that the president gave is entirely unrelated to the way the numbers were actually calculated. They are not mirror images of the tariffs directed at the US.
Here is the explanation of how they were calculated.
Since the numbers weren’t based on the foreign tariff rates to start with there is no possibility of “backing down in a mirrored fashion”.
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