Originally Posted by WilliP
Originally Posted by litacats
Originally Posted by lindyline
Wow, do you really pay so little for fabric?
I have one shop near me that is $9 to $12 per metre(39").
It's a little old fashioned fabric shop. All the LQS charge $24 to $30 per metre. I thinnk it's time for a move.
the lqs in bunbury seams to charge $22.00 for everything.
Ahh, yes, the lovely tarriffs I would assume are adding to your prices in Australia. I'm not sure what the current exchange rates are but it does seem steep. Of course I'm becoming familiar with some of your quilting and needlework magazines ---there in is my budget downfall! I really am disliking all publications that you have to wait and buy the next issue --sometimes two months later-- in order to have the whole pattern and directions! Love the applique work I've seen recently.
Interesting you thoughts about the import duties raising the prices of fabric in Australia. So I did a little research and found that the maximum import duty payable is 15%, which has come down from 52% since 1996. I would think that 15% would be the minimum
any import would attract. All quilting fabric is imported into Australia as we have no local manufacturers.
So, if the import duty has come down, and even allowing for shipping, we paying at least double per metre what you are paying in the US. Someone is making an awful lot of money from us. And I dont think its the LQS.
Just for interests sake, what do you pay for a single edition of Australian Patchwork and Quilting?