We currently have a nice variety of water lillies and marginal plants. We are waiting until it warms up a bit to order water hyacinths and water lettuce, we should have those around Memorial Day.
After moving our fish tanks to their new location it's taken us longer than expected to get the tanks balanced. We are hopeful to have a good selection of fish available for you to purchase just before Memorial Day also. Thanks for your patience!
As trade talks continue between the United States and China there is the possibility of increased tariffs and therefore, increased product prices later this year. We recently received the following from Jeff Payton at Aquascape:
"I am sure that many of you have been following the news story of the latest in the US/China trade wars. We definitely have at Aquascape with all of the tariffs we have been dealing with since last summer. Our hope was that they were a temporary thing but it does not appear to be.
Yesterday we were sent the official notice from the USTR (US Trade Representative) that is being posted in the Federal Register today. That notice is increasing the tariff on $200B in Chinese imports (referred to as "List 3") from the 10% tariff they are currently at to 25% - effective tomorrow, May 10th!
Besides this official announcement, there have also been threats to put the same 25% tariff on the rest of the products that are imported into the country from China. This would mean all products made in China would now have a 25% tariff on them.
We are not sure if this announcement is a scare tactic ahead of the US/China trade talks that are going on today and tomorrow or if they are truly going to be carried out. Right now, we are looking into all of the POs that have List 3 products on them that we currently have on the water or in production to determine when those products will be coming into stock. We are also looking at all of the products that we have in stock and seeing when those run out. Based on when the current stock runs out and when the new stock comes in will determine if/when we need to implement a price increase.
As soon as we have more information on this issue we will let everyone know."
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