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Author: m1964
Date: 2025-10-26 05:31
Received an email from NYC woodwinds:
"Buffet Crampon has just announced a roughly 7% price increase across the board, effective November 1, 2025. This extends to all Buffet clarinets and saxes, Keilwerth saxes and Powell flutes...
New instruments will still be available at old pricing till the end of October. If we don’t have something available, we may also be able to order from Buffet’s available stock."
So, here is the final result of the new tariffs, on Buffet products.I would expect Selmer to have a similar price increase. Not sure about Yamaha.
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Author: SecondTry
Date: 2025-10-26 17:44
Dan Shusta wrote:
> m1964,
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> Something is wrong with the 7% price increase effective Nov. 1,
> 2025.
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> Trump imposed a 15% tariff on items from France back in August.
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> To me, this is simply Buffet raising their prices by 7% for
> whatever reason. After Nov. 1, 2025, buyers of new Buffet
> clarinets from NYC Woodwinds will have to pay Buffet's 7% price
> increase along with Trump's 15% tariff.
> Post Edited (2025-10-26 11:11)
Hi Dan:
When I read your post I was tempted to draw the conclusion that you think the Buffet price increase and tariffs are separate events, and moreover that the end consumer is the one who pays for the cost of a tariff when in fact that cost is split between buyer and seller.
As you may know, a tariff, which is nothing more than a tax imposed on a foreign entity, is a cost that is split by buyer and seller based on the extent each can force the other to pay that increase. This depends on the relative strength of the consumer to absorb such costs, what other alternatives exist in the marketplace, and to what extent the seller can force the buyer to absorb these costs (a.k.a. price elasticity.)
For example, in the case of cigarettes, an addictive substance, much of the price increase falls on the consumer. Conversely, Chinese satellite price increases may hit the producer more as other countries produce them as well.
That there exists a time difference between when such tariffs were issued and when consumer prices increased can, as you point out, be explained by not raising costs until inventory on which these tariffs will be imposed is realized. Equally important, foreign sellers may "feel out the market" after such tariffs are imposed to determine the ideal amount they can pass on to consumers with it impacting profit the least.
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