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Landed cost calculator

Add freight, insurance, duty, VAT, levies and clearance fees to your supplier invoice to get true landed cost per unit — the number your margin should be built on.

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The shipment
$

What is on the supplier invoice, before freight.

$

This destination excludes freight from the customs value.

$

FOB basis · Sales & use tax (state level)

Duty and tax

Typical range 8% to 20%. Garments of all fibres. Rates vary sharply by fibre content and by knit versus woven.

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Country standard rate.

Look up your exact rate: USITC Harmonized Tariff Schedule

Total landed cost
$1,300.00

$13.00 per unit across 100 units

Customs duty
$120.00
Sales & use tax (state level)
$0.00
Customs value
$1,000.00
FOB basis
Effective rate
12%
The United States suspended its $800 de minimis exemption on 29 August 2025 and made the suspension indefinite in June 2026. Duty is owed from the first cent, whatever older calculators still say.
Where the money goes
  • Goods−$1,000.0076.9%
  • Freight & insurance−$180.0013.8%
  • Customs duty−$120.009.2%

Questions people ask about this

What is landed cost?

Everything it takes to get one unit from your supplier's door to your warehouse shelf: the goods, international freight, insurance, duty, import tax where you cannot reclaim it, clearance and brokerage, and inland delivery. It is the number that belongs in your cost of goods, not the supplier's invoice price.

Should VAT be included in landed cost?

Only if you cannot reclaim it. A VAT-registered business in the UK or EU recovers import VAT, so it is a cash-flow cost rather than a margin cost. A non-registered seller pays it and keeps it in the cost base. This is why the same import has two different landed costs for two different sellers.

Why is my landed cost so much higher than the invoice?

Because duty, VAT and freight compound. On a CIF-basis country, freight is inside the customs value, duty is charged on that, and VAT is charged on the total including the duty. A 12% duty rate and 20% VAT on a shipment with meaningful freight can add well over 35% to the invoice price.

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Where these numbers come from

Rates and rules change, and a calculator running on stale data is worse than no calculator. Every figure below carries the date we last checked it and a confidence level, so you can judge how much weight to put on it.

Source Publisher Effective Confidence
Suspending duty-free de minimis treatment for all countries Signed 2025-07-30, effective 2025-08-29, applying to all countries rather than only China and Hong Kong. The $800 exemption that most duty calculators still assume no longer exists. The White House (Executive Order 14324) 2025-08-29 Primary source
How to calculate UK duty and VAT UK import VAT is charged on the customs value plus duty plus freight, at 20% standard or 5% reduced. Duty relief applies below £135 but VAT does not. Customs Support — Secondary source
De minimis values by country The most complete public table of per-country duty and tax thresholds we found, but it carries no publication date. Every threshold sourced from it is editable in the calculator and flagged in the results. Zonos — Secondary source

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