The genius of the EU is truly on display with this one, from reading the various articles it seems to be their idea of kicking back at Trump due to a breakdown in relations and trade negotiations.

But all this does is hurt their own businesses in the EU that rely on products from the US, talking pinball there’s no way Stern and JJP will swallow up the increase at their end, so that will fall to the distributors and customers in the EU.

Other than the guys with more money than sense, is anyone else over this side of the pond going to pay £8100 ($10,700) for a Pro!?

Hopefully this is just temporary, otherwise Stern and JJP are going to take massive hits on orders, prices where already reaching a ceiling over this side of the pond, with this tariff prices just blew the roof off!

That was my first thought Stern and JJP will cover this for all their European customers... then I laughed and came back to reality

Ah but you have to think about it from all angles, I mean if someone had a gun to your head and said you must order a pin right now!

Would you take the 25% hit or go with a thunderbirds? No way I’d pay the 25% extra so I’d seriously be considering the bullet before buying a thunderbirds

Luckily for us in the U.K. this tariff should hopefully end on Jan 1st when we officially leave the EU.

I’ve had a lot of great pinheads in Europe help me out with stuff in the past, so if any of those guys need something and that 25% is going to make it un-buyable for them, I’ll happily ship them some pinball stuff marked as Made in the U.K.

No problem at all mate! We get absolutely hammered already on the price of pins in Europe and the U.K, this new 25% tariff makes buying games impossible to justify, unless your one of those with bottomless pockets and more money than sense.

The fact it hits parts/anything made in the U.S. is a major strain on EU pinheads and the businesses that rely on a lot of sales to the EU, got to look out for eachother, governments sure as shit won’t.

The way I read into the info on our Gov website is that anything that arrives at customs after 10/11/20 is subject to the tariff tax.

It’s definitely worth calling your local import/excise and confirm if it will effect you, knowing these governments we have they will return your item but still expect you to pay the bill for all their hard work handling it.

Yeah the date it lands seems to be when you get hit, so anything arriving after 10/11/20 is going to be subject to the new tariff rates.

No idea how the EU think this is going to help EU business that rely on trade with the U.S. anyone who’s business involves buying anything subject to the new tariffs from the U.S. like Freddys, pu-parts etc, it’s going to hit them hard.

As of next year mate order the stuff send it to my UK address and I’ll send it over to you with “made in the U.K” printed on the box, EU can suck it on that 25%!

Could be misreading your post but isn’t export about 60% of Sterns business?

I don’t know exactly either not sure anyone other than Stern does but there export has to be as big if not more than their domestic. This could be a big hit for Stern there’s a lot of EU buyers out there hit by this.

Distributors here have stopped their shipments until next year, but we are in a fortunate position that this tariff might not affect us in the U.K. once the new year rolls in and we are out of the EU.

As for the rest of EU, this can’t be good and dealers/distributors must be cancelling orders and stopping shipments, I just can’t imagine more than a very small amount of people continuing a purchase with 25% slapped onto the already high EU prices.

This tariff takes an already expensive Stern LE and knocks it up to £13k GBP that’s approx $18k USD. A pro here in the U.K. will be pushing towards £8.5k that’s $11.2k USD!

There’s a few that may still buy who have bottomless pockets but the majority of the NIB market here in the U.K. and E.U. has just been obliterated by this tariff, I’ve been buying NIB since 2009 and I’m now out!

They could easily cover that portion of the new facility lost to a production line in EU, just rent that portion of it out to JJP so they can finally get 2 titles out a year

Looking at those prices it took me 3 seconds to say to myself yep I’m still out!

I’m just hopeful this 25% tariff is abolished when we leave the EU, hopefully not to long after that you guys see the same thing happen too.

I would get more sense and honesty from talking to a brick wall