📢Important information on shipping to the United States and new tariffs.
The United States of America has recently introduced import tariffs on all product imports and has abolished the "de minimis" rule which allowed orders under $800 to pass through US Customs without duties.
As of Thursday 28 August 2025, 13:00 UTC, the applicable tariff on your order is calculated and collected at the checkout page. This is based on the country of manufacture of the products in your order. For example, our MemCard PRO product line is made in the UK, so the applicable tariff at the time of writing is 10%. Products made in China have a 30% tariff applied to them. This is automatically calculated and collected at checkout. All collected duties on your order are then remitted to the US Customs.
For orders and pre-orders placed prior to the cutoff date of 26 August 2025, we will be getting in touch with you closer to the shipping date of your order, in order to collect the applicable tariff on your order.
All US orders are shipped under "DDP" or "Delivery Duties Paid" which means that the duties and taxes are pre-paid on your behalf. This has the advantage that there are no further hidden costs from the shipping companies (where you would incur fees like "handling").
New orders placed after 28 August 13:00 UTC time include the tariff costs in the total and thus will incur no further fees prior to shipping or delivery.
FOR MEMCARD PRO2 PREORDERS which were unexpectedly delayed past the de minimis cutoff time, we will be sending your pre-orders under the same "taxes paid" scheme and you will incur no further cost as an exception and as a way for us to apologise for the delay. This is an exception that only applies to the MemCard PRO2 product in your pre-order. If you have other products as part of your pre-order, you will need to pay the applicable tariff on those prior to shipping. This exception does not apply to **Retrotime N64**, **RetroTime GC**, **MemCard PRO GC** or **VMUPro** pre-orders.
The Following products are Made in the UK and only incur a 10% tariff according to the current situation:
- VMUPro
- MemCard PRO
- MemCard PRO2
- MemCard PRO GC
- RetroTime N64 Adapter
- RetroTime GC Adapter
- RetroTime DC Adapter
- RetroTime NES HUB
- RetroTime NES HUB ADD-ON
Over the next few days, we will be adding the "Country of Origin" on our website to all products, so you can make informed shopping decisions.
For any questions on your pre-order, please contact us directly on discord (invite link is available on our page profile) or via email at customerservices@8bitmods.co.uk