I am super exited about my mnt reform next but I am very dobtful that the crowdsupply approach of shipping things from Europe to the US just to send them back. There needs to be an alternative strategy I would even come to Berlin an pick up my device but the current approach makes little sense in the current situation.
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Seconded. Some who joined this forum recently might be interested in a thread a while back to discuss a route to more localised manufacture here.
We share this concern of course. The Reform Next shipments are quite a while in the future and I’m sure the situation will develop significantly until then. We’ll also be in touch with CS/Mouser about this.
Side note about US based MNT assembly: In a different political climate, I’d be totally considering to do some assembly in the US. I even had some discussions about this with Cyber City Circuits back in the day, for example. But the prices for US local manufacturing are really quite high, higher than a 20% tarrif. And you’ll still have to import many of the components.
At this moment, I think it’s best to wait a bit until the dust settles.
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When faced with an inconsistent policy based on publicity stunts, it is wisest.
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I wanted to chime in here… I’m in Vancouver, Canada, and received a package from USA recently (a week or so ago). The value of the item was written as $200 USD (about $279 CAD). Upon arrival of the package, I was hit with a bill of $195 CAD (which converts back to about $139 USD). That basically amounts to paying 170% for the respective item. In the case of the Reform Next, that would be A LOT of money, like prohibitively large amount of money to the extent I’m not sure I’d want to purchase the machine if it was going to cost 70% extra. I really hope a solution can be found before the product ships – can CrowdSupply do a batched shipment to a Canadian distributor, or something like that, for example? 
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What was the customs code of the item / what kind of item was it?