Lego Will No Longer Ship Particular person Items Due to Trump Tariffs

The aftershocks of President Trump’s tariffs are hitting main retailers around the globe. As international transport is about to get dearer, most industries, together with the toy industry, are already feeling the monetary impression.

Sadly for the toy shopper, notably the Lego fanatic, issues are about to get extra sophisticated. In keeping with 404 Media, Lego will now cease transport particular person items. What was once a simple strategy to substitute random misplaced or lacking bricks is now going to be a worse headache, as its Decide a Brick program will make “greater than 2,500 items” unavailable for cargo to the US and Canada.

The change took impact on August 25, 4 days earlier than the August 29 elimination of the de minimis commerce exemption, which eliminated charges on items valued lower than $800. The tariffs in impact would make the Decide a Brick program unfeasible for the Danish collectible toy firm. Many items go for lower than a greenback inside the “commonplace” assortment, which is shipped from Denmark. Items within the bestseller collections are nonetheless obtainable, however it makes it trickier for these in search of particular items for extra advanced builds that aren’t within the bestseller catalog.

It’s a very unlucky results of the brand new transport legal guidelines that makes an enormous choice of the service inaccessible to consumers in the US and Canada. Lego’s Pick a Brick page famous the change as a pause. “Within the US & Canada, commonplace items are briefly unavailable. You possibly can nonetheless store our Bestseller vary, which incorporates hundreds of the most well-liked bricks and items able to order,” it reads on the web page once you go to see what’s obtainable and what’s not.

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