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Good news continues. Virtually everything in stock is still tariff-free, as far as the Canadian surtax and China-induced US price increases. I have been continually re-stocking, but only where I can obtain pre-tariff prices. With the high US tariffs on Chinese imports on pause for 90 days, now would be a good time to place orders for these products. US price increases should be minimal or absorbed by the manufacturer. There's no sign of our Canadian surtax being removed so be prepared to have th …

I'll take another 15% off all Rapido items in stock if payment is by cash or e-transfer. Ask for the sale price when ordering.

New announcements are for three more HO Budd RDC railcar roadnumbers in VIA colours. They are of the 2010 rebuild and comprise one RDC-1 and two RDC-2. They can be found here in the Store, with full details given here. Also new are wrapped lumber loads for the forthcoming HO centrebeam flatcar. There are eight schemes, some of which are in the Store here; full details are here. …

Good News! I've been re-stocking a number of US manufacturer's products. Other than a couple of products everything in stock is still tariff-free, either from the Canadian surtax or from US tariffs on Chinese products. However, I am about to receive some tariffed items from Kadee and maybe others. Several US manufacturers have indicated that their prices are about to increase, so things are changing almost daily. As far as your orders for out-of-stock or unlisted items I will give my best guess …

Many customers these days are making an effort to buy Canadian, where possible, due to problems with our neighbour to the south. As a reminder, we do supply products from many Canadian companies and publishers, such as: B.R.M.N.A. Black Cat Publishing Bytown Railway Society Canadian Branchline Miniatures CDS Lettering Ltd CNR Historical Association Juneco Scale Models Kaslo Shops Michael Leduc Miniatures By Eric Monashee Laser Engineering Nickel Belt Rails Osborn Model Kits Railfare DC Book …

Everything currently listed in the Store as in stock is STILL not subject to any further price increase, other than the few Digitrax items noted earlier. My Digitrax stock is going fast and I have no immediate plan to re-order. SoundTraxx is also going fast and I am considering reordering, but this will be subject to the 25% Canadian surtax.

Almost everything currently listed in the Store as in stock is STILL not subject to any further price increase. Any recent additions were shipped to my distributors before the tariff took effect. The only exceptions are for a few Digitrax items. Here, I have increased the price accordingly but added a note in the description.

Everything currently listed in the Store as in stock is STILL not subject to any further price increase. Any recent additions were shipped to me before the tariff took effect. However, we've reached a point where just about everything originating in the US is, or will be, subject to the Canadian 25% surtax, unless a distributor still has old stock (going fast). As before, if originating in China, items may be subject to price increases imposed by the US manufacturer, unless they decide to absorb …

A news item relating to new products announced in the latest Rapido News has been posted to the archive.

First, the good news. Everything currently listed in the Store as in stock is not subject to any further price increase. The bad news is that items not in stock, i.e backorders, pre-orders, both current and future, are subject to either the Canadian 25% surtax, if originating in the US, or to price increases imposed by the US manufacturer, if originating in China. I still have a good stock of many popular items. My distributors also hold good stock of some lines, in which case the pre-tariff pri …