"No Perry shipments to U.S....great" Topic

Firstly, I like my Mustang, it fits on UK roads nicely.. :)

However, while I understand POTUS' desire to prepare for a war with China by bringing industry back to the US, what I do find strange is alienating your allies with trade restrictions.

Surely if there is a war, the thing you need more than anything else is allies? Any future conflict between the two will be so finely balanced that allies could be the deciding factor.

But, based on the number of wargames I've lost, what do I know of strategy and tactics

So glad I'm a paid member of The Politics and Economics Page!

In miniatures news, Victrix says they expect to resume US shipments in 7-10 days. I am unsurprised. Seldom takes governments long to find a way to collect money.

Royal Mail have announced that they are halting parcel services to the US, along with DHL. They expect to resume service once the US bureaucracy has decided what they expect Royal Mail to do.

Fracturing over the pandemic, now tariffs.

I guess we'll all be getting into Chaos Armies next.

The US government has also ignored in its calculations the US surplus in services, which often cancels out any negative trade balance.

Many EU cars are made by such famous companies as Ford, General Motors (if that still exists?) and profits are likely exported to the US. Do they count as "services" ?

Wow! I cannot believe I read all of this on my phone! I hate reading on my phone. I switched from long wise to side waze, but it still is hard. And my phone is so big I wear it like a sidearm and my hip gets sore. I am strongly considering getting a smaller phone but then I have to transfer all my contacts. And tariffs.

"Canada drops many of its retaliatory tariffs on the U.S.

KEY POINTS

Canada announced Friday it was dropping most of its counter-tariffs of 25% on U.S. goods.

The tariffs on U.S. autos, steel and aluminum will remain in place for now.

The move comes as the U.S.-Mexico-Canada agreement is scheduled for a review in the next few months."

Even with price increases due to tariffs, once the bureaucratic changes in collecting the tariffs have been completed, British manufactured miniatures will be far cheaper for Americans than they were in the 90s and early 2000s when the dollar was weaker compared to the British pound: link

"Oh, my sweet summer child…"

So, Alan or Michael will have to send me a $100 USD gift I guess

Fife and Drum Miniatures makes a great range of AWI 28mm figures and you can buy them here in the USA. No tariffs and no price increases. Give us a try.

fifeanddrum-minis.com

PS: we also make terrific SYW figures through our Minden Miniatures range.

Second Brigade Games AWI line of figures sculpted by Paul Hicks.

TRU

Anyone in the US interested in buying ranges of Minifigs (all or none) PM me. I have over 2,000 molds (including master molds). Seems like this may be a good time to pull the trigger on such an opportunity. I am 73 and too old to start all over again but would be happy to help someone to get off the ground whomever buys it.

Victrix has already resumed shipments to the US.

Maggot +1, 2, 3!

It's fun watching some VEF members defend Tr*mp over the literal fact that I'm unable to do business with one of my favorite miniature companies and can't spend money to keep their business going. Only in MAGA world could it be spun as a good thing that I can't buy stuff from a company and they can't accept my order, and no commerce can take place.

Somehow…according to them…that's all going to lead back around to some new amazing and improved 5D reality in which I'll be ordering from Perry again, but now Perry will have to do a whole new pile of redundant paperwork, and there will be a new fee attached to the order of anywhere from $20 USD-$50, maybe $100 USD, nobody knows – that I will have to pay on top of the price of the products themselves.

So the Perry minis. will total let's say $53.00 USD and then shipping is another $15.00 USD. And then then the new fee will be as much if not more than the entire order itself.

Let me know when the "Greatness" starts.

35thOVI wrote: "Canada drops many of its retaliatory tariffs on the U.S.

KEY POINTS

Canada announced Friday it was dropping most of its counter-tariffs of 25% on U.S. goods.

The tariffs on U.S. autos, steel and aluminum will remain in place for now.

The move comes as the U.S.-Mexico-Canada agreement is scheduled for a review in the next few months."
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Oh yes 35thOVI, because the entire known Universe revolves around the United States every waking minute of every day right? And we all just walk between the **g raindrops here because we're so special, while the world is supposed to automatically do our bidding. Do I have all of this right?

The world is forming new economic alliances because of our bullying idiocy. Right now, The BRIC nations Brazil, Russia, China, and India provide 35% of the world's GDP. We and the G7 nations only provide 28%. We are SECOND, NOT FIRST. Let that sink in. The world is slowly but surely figuring out ways to do business with each other and leave us out because we can no longer be trusted because thanks to Trump there is no logic and no consistency in anything we do.

There's a reason that the biggest electric car company in the world is a Chinese company (BYD). Nothing we produce even comes close in volume or quality. There's a reason that the "mighty" U.S. economy is literally almost wholly dependent on China for making darn near every single product we buy at Walmart. 70% of the U.S. economy is nothing but you and me buying stuff at Walmart that's made somewhere else besides here. 70%. That's right. Most of our economy is made up us shopping at stores buying stuff we don't even make.

The world is figuring out it doesn't need us any more, and Capitalism is also figuring that out. So you have fun pretending that Trump is somehow bending the world to his will. It's a colossal joke.

@Baraovich

I could place a long list of his accomplishments on here and you would deny them. Why because you hate him and your woman lost (praise God!). I could place all the bad of the Biden administration and you would disagree.

The border is now secure.

"All yeah! But my toys cost more!"

We have had large numbers of foreign businesses promising billions of development in the U.S., some of which have started.

"All yeah! But my toys cost more!"

Over a 2 million illegals, many of them criminals responsible for the murder, maiming, rape, kidnapping, violence and other criminal acts against actual U.S. citizens, either voluntarily or forced out of the country.

"All yeah! But my toys cost more!"

6 worldwide peace treaties or ceasefires in over 6 months.

"All yeah! But my toys cost more!"

The first president to attempt to damage the Iranian nuclear program. Successfully done and no U.S. deaths in the attacks.

"All yeah! But my toys cost more!" 😡

DEI in the military stopped and recruitment meeting and exceeding all goals.

"All yeah! But my toys cost more!" 🤬

I can go down the page with these, but it would not matter, because you and others hate Trump and voted for Harris. A woman who could not complete a coherent thought. I can only assume you all also voted for a dementia riddled President who had no real idea what was going on and let the Presidency be run by unknown others.

As I said in these threads: Everything I read in here could have been quoted directly from the MSM.

Sound familiar?

"What we are seeing is, no doubt, what other countries have seen a lot. What our Founding Fathers predicted would happen."
"A great, strong man, would arrive, and not great in the good sense but great in the power sense."

"Trump is the most dominant figure of our age around the world. Don't underestimate him. He is a world historical figure and he is the man that we were warned about by the founders."

"That democracies fall when a man who can captivate the populace wants to exercise the power that's there in the government, and that is what we're watching."

From:

ABC reporter Terry Moran who was fired following an X post attacking President Trump and White House Advisor Stephen Miller.

Oh!! So rant on if it makes you feel better. Neither of us is going to change minds.

Definitely see some ranting there, although realize sometimes looking in the mirror isn't any fun. And as an aside, lots of "you"s, hope all that blame is at least releasing some of the pain. ; )

A late hobbiest friend had a good saying for this kind of grief, "… my old suggestion is forget it, take two aspirins and go paint." Cheers!

For anyone curious about what the financial press has been saying on the economics side, a few data points stood out to me:

Bond markets: U.S. Treasury yields have been spiking this summer, especially on the long end. Analysts chalk it up to deficit concerns and uncertainty around tariff revenue flows. MarketWatch had a piece on how U.S., U.K., and French budget worries all triggered a global bond sell-off.

Dollar: The U.S. dollar index fell more than 10% in the first half of 2025 — Reuters called it the worst mid-year performance since the 1970s. Policy unpredictability and pressure on the Fed were both flagged as factors.

Credit rating: Moody's downgraded U.S. sovereign debt in May (from Aaa to Aa1), joining S&P and Fitch, which had already cut earlier. Economists pointed to rising debt and weaker institutional norms.

For us as gamers, that combination is kind of a double whammy: tariffs add new fees on imported minis, and at the same time a weaker dollar makes every pound or euro spent on Perry, Victrix, etc. go even further against us. It explains why prices feel like they're climbing faster than usual.

Not saying this settles any debates here, but the numbers are easy to check in CBO, IMF, or ratings agency releases if you want the raw data.

@35thOVI

All Fox news talking points. Thank you for reminding me.

@Greenknight

Not accomplishments?

None of what I put there was from a Fox report. Garnered from numerous sources. But if one does not watch Fox, how would one know anyway. 🤔

But let's test just a few things from the MSM, ie anything outside Fox and potentially Newsmax. Just a few:

Was Trump Russian collusion in the 2016 election true?
Did masks work to stop the spread and catching of Covid?
Did the vax prevent you catching covid?
Did the vax prevent you from spreading covid?
Was the laptop Hunters?
Did Covid originate in a wet market?
Did Covid originate from China?
Was Joe Biden a functional President and running circles around everyone?

Just a small few of the "truths" of the MSM. All of which Fox WAS correct on. Does Fox miss on some? Yes, but much less than the MSM. Is Fox partisan? Of course, but they are the only one on the opposing side of the MSM. Are the others partisan? Is the Pope Catholic? 😉

All Fox news talking points. Thank you for reminding me.

Lol!

Was Trump Russian collusion in the 2016 election true?
Did masks work to stop the spread and catching of Covid?
Did the vax prevent you catching covid?
Did the vax prevent you from spreading covid?
Was the laptop Hunters?
Did Covid originate in a wet market?
Did Covid originate from China?
Was Joe Biden a functional President and running circles around everyone?

Lot's of questions about the past, not any answers, although not sure if it makes much of a difference because none of it is current, and it can't be changed now. Can't tell if it's ranting or not. Nor does it have much to do with the suspensions of shipping to the US.

For anyone curious about what the financial press has been saying on the economics side, a few data points stood out to me:

Bond markets: U.S. Treasury yields have been spiking this summer, especially on the long end. Analysts chalk it up to deficit concerns and uncertainty around tariff revenue flows. MarketWatch had a piece on how U.S., U.K., and French budget worries all triggered a global bond sell-off.

Dollar: The U.S. dollar index fell more than 10% in the first half of 2025 — Reuters called it the worst mid-year performance since the 1970s. Policy unpredictability and pressure on the Fed were both flagged as factors.

Credit rating: Moody's downgraded U.S. sovereign debt in May (from Aaa to Aa1), joining S&P and Fitch, which had already cut earlier. Economists pointed to rising debt and weaker institutional norms.

For us as gamers, that combination is kind of a double whammy: tariffs add new fees on imported minis, and at the same time a weaker dollar makes every pound or euro spent on Perry, Victrix, etc. go even further against us. It explains why prices feel like they're climbing faster than usual.

Not saying this settles any debates here, but the numbers are easy to check in CBO, IMF, or ratings agency releases if you want the raw data.

Unfortunately the US's current President likely isn't paying attention to low bond rates, deficit spending, uncertainty in tariff revenues, the dollar, credit ratings, having a policy that doesn't fluctuate as much, fed policy, rising debt, and falling institutional norms. Probably won't listen to an advisor that doesn't tell him what he wants to hear either. Not a good situation.

And as for shipments to the US suspended, he probably doesn't care about that regarding miniatures being shipped to hobbyiests, which probably won't hurt his tariffs too much anyway, although added to the rest, it could be just another straw on the camel's back.

"Lot's of questions about the past, not any answers, although not sure if it makes much of a difference because none of it is current, and it can't be changed now. Can't tell if it's ranting or not. Nor does it have much to do with the suspensions of shipping to the US."

If people are criticizing one news source, but using the others and still believing them, then yes it is relevant. Also Since many of those actually ranting about the tariffs, are the same ones who believed those questions above as true, again it's relevant.

But you are probably correct, he probably does not give much thought to higher priced foreign toy soldiers. Probably sees it as a chance to get that business into the U.S.

But you all can write and ask him. If enough of you complain he might help you out . Maybe unite and march on the White House and make your voices heard!

"Hey Hey! Ho Ho! Tariffs on toy soldiers has got to go!!"

🤔 Notify CNN ahead of time and they will cover it. Maybe Talib or Cortez will come out with you.

But I guarantee you 100%, He doesn't read TMP and you all are accomplishing nothing.🤭

An addendum to the above:

Since I doubt any of you voted for him, good luck.

@GamesPoet

Unfortunately the US's current President likely isn't paying attention to low bond rates

He is actually paying close attention to them. Since taking office in January, President Trump has bought over $100 USD million worth of bonds—spanning corporate, municipal, and state issues—across more than 600 transactions. These include bonds from entities like Citigroup, Morgan Stanley, Wells Fargo, Meta, Qualcomm, Home Depot, T‑Mobile, UnitedHealth Group, as well as various local issuers Sources: Fidelity International, Reuters.

Portfolio Timing & Yield Dynamics: Bond prices rise when yields fall, meaning if the Federal Reserve cuts interest rates—as Trump has advocated—the value of his bond portfolio would increase.