Yes for sure, a-lot less compared to if shipping them in from China. Are you in possession of all flying lemon units, or are these still getting machined?
Things are constantly in flux and changing so I would say yes. You’re honestly in a better position than most cause costs atm are lower for AU goods than Chinese and UK goods heading to the US. Which is a rare thing. Don’t get me wrong. Everything regardless is more expensive so this is all relative…
I would think the US would take a dim view of claiming that there were coming from AUS. I am no expert but that has been categorized as ‘cheating’ by the US officials I have heard speak on this topic. Vietnam, in particular, has been cited as a trans-shipment for Chinese goods seeking to avoid tariffs.
That said, I am not sure that they are staffed to make these distinctions. So you may be good.
So, maybe I can help with some insight on this as well. As someone who has been going through the basic 25% tariffs for years at this point with our China facility.
This is super intricate when it comes to costing and legal processes, and also slightly differs based on HS codes occasionally. But, that being said, the basic understanding has been kind of this:
If the major definitive item is being manufactured out of China, its COO (Country of Origin) can be changed. For example, if we’re making a Fuel Tank, and all of our Sensors are coming from our China plant, but the Plastic Tank itself is being made in our MX facility, and the sensors assembled to it from there, its COO is Mexico. Even though the sensor technology is more costly, you can’t have a Tank Assembly without a tank. So there are no tariffs on those goods. Now, if we just pass through the sensors as spare components however, then that becomes subject to the tariffs.
Tariff costs (for us at least, what is passed on to the consumer in terms of pricing), are on the cost of the manufactured goods essentially, not the sale price, so basically the ExWorks CN costs. This means the traditional 25% isn’t a true 25% markup because there’s still storage, handling, cross dock, further shipping, and other things that mark that up further usually when it gets to our US facility. So, while the stuff that is just China based that’s being hit with these new high tariffs obviously isn’t good, and quite aggressive, it doesn’t change the overall manufacturing costs of the goods, so it’s not really a true 145% markup from the sales price (still not great by any means, but not AS bad, haha).
All in all, still difficult and frustrating, but hopefully this helps somewhat with a little more understanding. That also being said, we all know stuff like this can also change at the drop of a hat too…