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Lego Will No Longer Ship Individual Pieces Thanks to Trump Tariffs

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According to 404 Media, Lego will now stop shipping individual pieces. What used to be an easy way to replace random lost or missing bricks is now going to be a worse headache, as its Pick a Brick program will make “more than 2,500 pieces” unavailable for shipment to the United States and Canada.

The change took effect on August 25, four days before the August 29 elimination of the de minimis trade exemption, which removed fees on goods valued less than $800.

https://gizmodo.com/lego-will-no-longer-ship-individual-pieces-thanks-to-trump-tariffs-2000650637
 
I don't play with Legos (might buy tech kits when I get my own place) but WTF? Sure we don't have a great postal service but the de minimis rules got nothing to do with Canada. Unless Lego has a centralized North Amercia team and just don't want the hassle to deal with the entire North America?
 
moocow said:
I don't play with Legos (might buy tech kits when I get my own place) but WTF? Sure we don't have a great postal service but the de minimis rules got nothing to do with Canada. Unless Lego has a centralized North Amercia team and just don't want the hassle to deal with the entire North America?
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Yeah, this is my question on the subject as well..... I know Canada isn't a large market when compared to the US, but applying blanket policies to NA based solely on cheeto man's actions is deplorable.
 
I think a lot of "Canadian" divisions have relied upon the "USA" division to do all the importing as the quantities are obviously much higher south of the border than here. I'm not sure any business predicted there ever being a trade war amongst neighbours and close economic partners.

I'm inclined to say once the postal services figure out an efficient way to manage all the new documentation requirements to import items and charge the customers, that shipments will resume? But with all that extra cost, I'm guessing people won't really care about getting their missing piece either...
 
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Yeah, this is my question on the subject as well..... I know Canada isn't a large market when compared to the US, but applying blanket policies to NA based solely on cheeto man's actions is deplorable.
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Anything you buy from the Lego store gets shipped from their American Warehouse. I don't think they have a Canadian one at all, maybe that'll change. Probably not though...
 
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Yeah exactly, all lego comes from the states atm. Not sure why they dont put together a warehouse in Ontario.
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Yes, amidst all this chaos, there's a lot of opportunities; but a lot of fear. The good part, is that someone who figures out solutions won't be an investor but someone with a genuine interest and participation of figuring out a solution.
 
LaughingCrow said:
Yes, amidst all this chaos, there's a lot of opportunities; but a lot of fear. The good part, is that someone who figures out solutions won't be an investor but someone with a genuine interest and participation of figuring out a solution.
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That would be difficult without doing it for a profit, especially if Lego is doing their own distro instead of a third party. So you would have to setup a EU or UK office, pay the tax + unit cost, pay for your own ordering system, pay for staff then add at least 10% profit margin on top of that so you don't starve to death. I just don't see this being worth it for just Canada. Another option is for an existing warehousing / distro business going to Lego and be their distro partner in Canada for a small fee. Then as a consumer you pray the cost isn't more than 10% than before.
 
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moocow said:
That would be difficult without doing it for a profit, especially if Lego is doing their own distro instead of a third party. So you would have to setup a EU or UK office, pay the tax + unit cost, pay for your own ordering system, pay for staff then add at least 10% profit margin on top of that so you don't starve to death. I just don't see this being worth it for just Canada. Another option is for an existing warehousing / distro business going to Lego and be their distro partner in Canada for a small fee. Then as a consumer you pray the cost isn't more than 10% than before.
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Agreed, that's why I said someone with a genuine interest motivation. And possibly someone with a European connection or background. I have no idea what Lego's policies are. Solving Trump's tariffs and related issues isn't going to be a fast solution. It took one of their higher courts 6 months to challenge it. If Trump had stock in Lego (like he does with NVIDIA, Apple, AMD, Intel, etc) it might be a different story. But Lego is a European corporation.
 

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