For many months purchasing filament from the USA Bambu Lab website has been impossible. I visited Canada’s site and there is plenty of stock. It seems like BBL’s has cut us off. Obviously due to the tariffs.
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…or here’s a really wild theory: There are more people living in the USA, so demand is significantly higher. As a result, it sold out even faster. Also, there was a sale at the Bambu Shop not that long ago. A lot of people stocked up again.
In fact, it’s more like the supply situation is pretty bad at every warehouse worldwide. Take a look around the forum - there are threads on this topic from all regions of the world. 
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I discovered my local Best Buy carries Bambu Lab, Their own brand, and another brand of filaments. I have an over abundance of colors now so I’m buying as needed. But there may be other sources of filaments available.
When I have ordered online from Bambu Labs it seems the order gets fulfilled in a wide array of locations at times. My last few were fulfilled right here in Los Angeles. So the shipping was quite fast, too. Which I appreciate. (I hate waiting on shipments)
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Bambu always struggles to keep stock. This has nothing to do with tariffs.
Make an order with Polymaker.
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The customer has to pay tariffs, fees, taxes, etc., anyway - not Bambu, right? Bambu just passes those costs on to its customers, or?
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The smart companies will do that, so that when the TACO happens, they get a big pure-profit payday on the tariff refund programs, only available to large import businesses.
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Depends. Most companies will absorb a certain amount of it. Tariffs are paid on import, so the importer pays it, but if that cost is passed on to the consumer depends.
Funny enough, most everything is still cheaper in the US despite the trade disputes.
Just using some black PLA basic:
EU = €11.50 = $13.28, US = $12.99,
More of a side note, but thats one of the reasons I order a good amount from Polymaker. A significant portion of their SKUs are made in the USA and they sell at similar prices to the stuff made overseas.
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Sorry, I’m referring to engineering material. Check out any filament that contains carbon fiber or glass fiber. I’m not referring to common PLA types.
This link explains quite a few issues.
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Get rid of the s after farm
Neither link works… nevertheless, I found the page
…and then an opinion blog pops up, so let’s read it…
Yeah, okay, he’s expressing his political views - I’ll pass on that - and he mentions that he’s having problems with the supply chain from China. Well, he also runs a print farm service, so of course they need different quantities.
However, what does that have to do with this?
I don’t see the correlation. Why don’t you describe it in your own words instead of posting a blog? Just a well-meaning suggestion.
By the way, the topic of “Up Coming Filament Supply Issues” comes up every now and then - every year. If that’s what you want to discuss?
Until people realize that Bambu has always had global delivery problems, just like it always was:
Not to push off on another brand, but PolyMaker has shifted some production to the US, so they’re not terribly affected yet. It costs a little more, but you dont get the rfid. Also they are starting to do the spool refill thing for PLA’s (also without a chip).
Dont get mad at BBL because inventory issues. I work in a hospital, even basic medical supplies are getting jacked up in prices because the diesel to run the shipping trucks has tripled. Air freight? Dont try it. You’ll pay dearly as Aviation fuel costs significantly more. Sleepy Don’s war is going to mess things up for a very, VERY long time until the shipping industry figures a way to go around.
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Bringing in politics before using critical thinking skills is never a good thing (sorry…also makes a person look a bit…well…trying to be as nice as possible here…inept) We all should take time to stop and think before reacting. The sheer numbers of people in the US vs Canada who have 3D printers is the factual explanation (not knee jerk reaction using emotions) of why the Canadian market has more available. This situation is exactly what happens with so many other things when comparing the Canadian market to the US. Grew up living very close to the border. Experience with this type of thing happening for decades. No…it’s not as much fun as a knee jerk reaction for political reasons, but thinking to find fact before a knee jerk emotional reaction will avoid the possibility of someone flagging themselves as a Karen.
And if anyone desires an easier time right now rather than terrorists having nukes (and factually, since they fired them off having missile that could hit London in spite of lying and saying they did not)…well…
Prices are less expensive here despite tariffs and it has more money coming in and being invested to reactivate our own production on US soil instead of having to rely upon foreign countries (self sufficicnecy historically and by common sense), is alwyas best.. That is also verifiable fact. Wouldn’t it be great to see Bambu make a filament factory here?
What gets me is on ons eside people will say tariffs are horrible and yet them blame people for allegedly supporting the horrible working conditions and, what they refer to as “slave labor” in China that will keep on going if production is left overseas instead of making it less expensive (turning the tables) for them to produce things here and make US jobs.
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