Aug 21st, 2025:

As I am preparing for my upcoming release I wanted to provide a resource page for changing policies regarding US orders and tariffs. This has been a confusing and frustrating year for small businesses and artists, and news coverage of what is happening is varied and difficult to decipher for sellers and customers alike.

To begin with, I want to recap the information I know, which - most prominently - is that the de minimus exemption order which has allowed “low value” (under 800$) shipments to enter the US duty free is being removed on Aug 29th - making small scale retail susceptible to tariffs that are currently set at 35% for Canada). I am a Canadian business with an audience predominantly in the States, which means these changes threaten to have a huge impact on me, my livelihood, and the accessibility of my work to an audience that has supported me for years.

My upcoming Fossil Collection, which opens this Saturday, August 23rd, should not be affected. My courier has provided me with a cutoff date of Wednesday, Aug 27th, for parcel drop-offs to clear the border before the 29th, and, to err on the side of caution, I will be delivering orders on Monday, the 25th. While I don’t want to fear-monger, as I don’t yet know how the removal of de minimis will play out, future purchases from US customers may incur tariffs. This is the last sale, given current information, that will be able to enter the US duty/tariff-free.

A hopeful, though unclear, potential saving grace that I will be looking into and will provide updates on as I get more clarity is that my work may be covered under the Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement (CUSMA), which has optimistically been pitched as a way for North American-made products to be shielded from the heft of the projected tariffs.

I will keep this bulletin updated with information pertinent to future releases and, in the interim, I can suggest the following resources if you wish to look into this matter further. My courier keeps the following blog posts - Tariffs on Canada and E-commerce and Suspension of De Minimis, frequently updated. These have been a helpful and thorough resource for me to better understand the issue at hand. While some of the information is more pertinent to sellers than customers, it provides a clear and well-explained collection of the status of policy changes and resulting functional impacts we face.

Finally, I want to reiterate how thankful I am for peoples’ support of my work for so many years. I truly hope I will be able to withstand these senseless hurdles and continue making and sharing this work for years to come.