Here's the discussion on pm dot net:
http://www.photomacrography.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=41943&p=264202#p264202 Friend Robert purchased used lens from Korea, Linos, it's made in Germany. Slapped with 25% tax and some 2.3% on top of that.
The tariffs isn't just limited to lenses, as later we discover.
This is a link to the full PDFs for 2020 Revision 13, if anyone in interested: https://hts.usitc.gov/current
For Photo equipment: https://hts.usitc.gov/view/Chapter%2090 ... 0HTSARev13
An addendum:
On Thursday the U.S. Trade Representative proposed an additional 25% tariff on German lenses (as well as increased import fees on many other items). This proposal is open to public comment until July 26th.
https://ustr.gov/sites/default/files/en ... 3_2020.pdf
This will have a massive impact on used European lenses coming from outside of the USA, such as Europe or Japan. The two brands that instantly come to mind are Leica and Zeiss. There's many terrific Leica R and M mount lenses that can be adapted to the Sony and Nikon Mirrorless system. Zeiss makes high quality stuff and some of their older lenses are fun to have...
Non-photographic optics such as prisms and filters will have a massive and ridiculous 65% tax. That's insane.
I think it's bad news overall.