Customs and landed-cost calculators
Use these worksheets to budget an import and decide who pays the border charges. They do not classify goods, establish legal eligibility for relief or replace a broker’s declaration.
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Build the cost per saleable unit
The landed-cost worksheet combines goods, freight, insurance, duty, import tax and clearance. For a hypothetical CIF destination, 100 units costing $500 with $100 freight have a $600 customs value. At an assumed 5% duty and 20% import tax on value plus duty, the charges are $30 and $126. Add $20 clearance: total cash outlay is $776, or $7.76 per unit. These are illustrative rates, not a destination quote.
If import VAT is recoverable, cash outlay and economic product cost differ. The calculator reports cash outlay. Account for recoverable tax separately and spread shipment costs over saleable units, allowing for damage and shortages.
Three eligibility checks before relying on a threshold
Check the shipment route, the commodity’s origin and the declaration procedure separately. Canada’s higher courier thresholds concern shipments from the US or Mexico, with exclusions; they do not apply to every courier parcel. Separate surtaxes can survive ordinary low-value relief. The US suspension of low-value relief does not mean every commodity has a positive tariff rate.
For eligible EU distance sales up to €150, the temporary charge is applied per declaration line. Grouping depends on the declaration type, classification, description and origin. It is not simply a charge for every physical unit. Read the Commission guidance and have your broker confirm the line count and procedure.
Compare payment responsibility
DDP versus DAP compares seller and recipient outlays under your stated charges. DDP can give a buyer a predictable checkout total, but it also requires a workable importer and tax arrangement. DAP can fit a business buyer with its own broker. Neither term makes duty disappear or automatically decides who can recover import tax.
Use official tariff lookups linked in the tool. A broad product category provides an example input, not a classification decision. Trade remedies, restrictions, excise, origin preferences and special customs valuation adjustments require separate checks.
Does the calculator choose an HS code?
No. Enter the rate that applies to your classified product, origin and procedure. The category examples cannot establish that rate.
Can I use the result on a customs declaration?
Use it as a planning worksheet. A declaration needs the actual customs value, classification, origin, procedure and applicable charges confirmed with the authority or your broker.
The rest of the chain
A shipment is priced in stages, and the stage you are on is rarely the only one that costs you money.