Huss
Veteran
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What is your source on that?
Mixing instant cameras into the discussion ?
Yep the Fuji Sofort is Leica’s best selling kamera by far.
How is that surprising?
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What is your source on that?
Mixing instant cameras into the discussion ?
Unklear whether this is akkurate, but PhotoRumors said that there'll be a 25% price increase on Leica lenses (!!!!),.
What a fortuitous turn for the UK! After Brexit we will have access to a myriad of low tariff high quality British made tech products.
Unklear whether this is akkurate, but PhotoRumors said that there'll be a 25% price increase on Leica lenses (!!!!), come 1 November.
Happily have all the current M glass I'll ever need.
If you buy a Leica new in Germany and then return to the USA, will there be next a customs checking to pay the 25% tariff? Just a curious question ....
The retail price will not go up 25% because Leica will lower the wholesale cost to offset some of the increase. In the 1980s the Mark soared against the US Dollar but the price of a Mercedes in the U.S. barely budged. MB was able to just eat a lot of the cost increase because their markup was so high to begin with.
This is how it works out when you've given away your country's production to other countries; America's biggest export product is now our consumption. That's valuable and the idea is to make other countries pay a higher price for that product, just like the price going up for any desirable product. Market demand. Companies can eat some or all of that increase or pass some or all of it on to their customers. Customers do have a say in this you know.
The issue here is talking Leica when the real problem was thousands of, for example, well-paying textile jobs in North Carolina, being sent to horrific sweatshops in China (then Malaysia, then Cambodia, then Viet Nam, always chasing lower costs), because Joe Blow wants to save $3.00 on a pair of $50.00 trousers. Other countries do this too and you'd admit it if you were being honest with yourself, but the US is big and "wealthy" so it's more visible with us. Things like German cameras made in Portugal, and whisky made in Scotland are marquee items so they make for good headlines in less than objective news rags.
It's what you get with Keynesian economics and it's sad that so many people in lots of countries just don't understand things unless they're really simple concepts. People could boycott those products but consumers everywhere are so spoiled they just can't say no. Brats. The higher prices are also a reflection of your ever more worthless currencies. Dollars, Euros, Francs. It doesn't matter which anymore. Every government wants their currency to be the cheapest because it helps their exports. Think about the logic of that...
"...and all the children are above average."
If you buy a Leica new in Germany and then return to the USA, will there be next a customs checking to pay the 25% tariff? Just a curious question ....
You'll pay customs duty unless you can show that you registered your Leica with US Customs on the way out of the country. You can do that at any customs office. If you buy it in Germany, you'll need to list it on the customs form passed out on the plane on the way home.
I don't think so, but regardless, I have it on good authority a substantial price increase on both Leica film and digital cameras is coming very soon!Are cameras "safe" from such a tariff?
Are cameras "safe" from such a tariff?
Leica USA did increase wholesale prices on most lenses about 20%
Generally dealers are doing the best they can do delay passing on these increases to the customer.
It remains to be seen how long the tariff will remain in place.
However if the tariff remains in place, its only a matter of time until dealers run out out of pre-tariff lenses and are forced to pass on the increase.
Stephen
AND... Japanese whiskey is pretty good too.
I believe anything made or sold by a European company is subject to the tariffs.
Of course, if the president gets impeached or voted out of office in 2020, free trade would go back to normal. I am really glad he is protecting the US camera and lens manufacturers from insidious Asian and European competition.