Qwertykeys Halts Keyboard Shipments To US Over Tariff Costs and Confusion

An anonymous reader shares a report: The keyboard company Qwertykeys has temporarily halted all shipments to the United States in response to President Trump's tariffs on Chinese goods going into effect. The company says it's working on ways to mitigate shipping costs and that the tariffs have made it so that 'all keyboards from China to the U.S. are now subject to 45% tariffs at full value.'

'We are closely watching the progress of the situation and really hope that there is something else we can do other than bumping the price up,' the company wrote in a comment on Reddit. Qwertykeys says that its delivery partner, DHL, 'now requires prepayment of 50% of the declared product value as a tariff deposit, plus a $21 processing fee per package.' That would drastically raise prices for customers in the US, something Qwertykeys says is 'unsustainable for both our business and customers.'

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