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  • 1.  Tariff surcharge line item on invoice

    Posted Wed May 21, 2025 14:15

    Good afternoon,

    I have just received notification from a company we purchase from that they will be charging us a 20% tariff surcharge to our NIH grants as a line item on all upcoming invoices.

    Has anyone else dealt with this?  They have offered to retitle the line, any thoughts on what they could call it so we won't have issues with NIH?

    thanks,



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    Nancy Bloch
    Manager Research Center
    The Miriam Hospital
    Providence, RI
    (401) 793-8979
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  • 2.  RE: Tariff surcharge line item on invoice

    Posted Thu May 22, 2025 09:10

    Hi Nancy,

    My first thought when I read this is the company adding this to all customers. I am curious why they aren't just building it into their price of the product.

    Thanks for sharing!



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    Faith Goenner
    Department Research Administrator
    University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
    Minneapolis, MN
    (612) 819-7441
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  • 3.  RE: Tariff surcharge line item on invoice

    Posted Thu May 22, 2025 09:22

    Based on contracts that are in place, they can't add it to the cost of the product because that would go against the agreed upon price.  They are currently looking monthly at the changes in tariffs so that cost could go down next month so renegotiating the current contract would be short sighted. 



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    Nancy Bloch
    Manager Research Center
    The Miriam Hospital
    Providence, RI
    (401) 793-8979
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  • 4.  RE: Tariff surcharge line item on invoice

    Posted Fri May 23, 2025 14:25

    This is something that may change given the administration's targeting of companies that are doing a line-item tariff charge.



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    Lynn Doolittle
    Pre-Award Research Administrator III
    Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute
    Seattle, WA
    (206) 432-1503
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  • 5.  RE: Tariff surcharge line item on invoice

    Posted Fri May 23, 2025 14:41

    Lynn,

    You are probably right but we need the scales now to keep our study on track.   

    Luckily, they agreed to change the wording.

    Nancy



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    Nancy Bloch
    Manager Research Center
    The Miriam Hospital
    Providence, RI
    (401) 793-8979
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    Original Message


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