Amazon Japan fees

Wasn’t sure where on Reddit to ask this, this seemed like maybe a place where someone would know?

So I’ve been ordering boxes of books from Amazon Japan for a few years now, I’m studying Japanese so ordering books in Japanese from Amazon Japan has been so helpful until just now when I went to order a round of books and the shipping fee, which used to be like $30-$50 to ship to the US, jumped up to almost $100 USD.

I’m guessing this is to do with the US tariffs changing due to the current administration? Or am I missing something?

Just feeling quite stumped as I had like 17 books I was ready to order but I just can’t justify the shipping fee costing almost as much as the books now. (Yes even with the weak yen working in my favor and the books themselves being cheap)

by Slow-Mechanic-269