‘Seek not just sights but the stories behind them’
Like many small business owners right now I am unfortunately having to make the hard decision in pausing shipping on all USA orders due to the new customs and tariff rules that are coming into place on 29th August 2025. These new rules mean that all parcels big and small will now face import charges which will affect myself and my lovely US clients.
With so much uncertainty and nothing clearly set in place right now (nothing like a one month warning) it is unfair as a very small business owner to expect loyal customers to pay these unknown duties on Lavender Line purchases in order to allow their photography prints to enter US Customs, and it wouldn’t be fair for me to increase my prices in order to cover these forced pre-paid charges.
This makes me really sad as I value each and every one of my customers and have had such big support from the US with Lavender Line Photography (almost 40% of my photography print sales), it’s the very reason I bought my sales map to tick off the states that proudly home my work, last count was 20/50!
Hopefully this will only be a temporary measure and shipping can commence again soon once things are much clearer and make sense! Thank you to all across the pond who have supported my small business, I have loved hearing your photography print purchase stories over the years and look forward to the continuation of those wanderlust keepsakes.
