The factory quote is $4.20 a unit. The number that hits your warehouse is not. LandedShift calculates landed cost for importers with custom line items: goods, freight, insurance, duties, tariffs, and fees, in the browser. Use it to see whether a 'cheap' supplier survives ocean freight and a duty rate. Do not use it as a customs broker, a HS-code classifier, or a promise of what CBP will assess. Order of operations matters: duty is often on CIF (goods + freight + insurance), not on FOB alone. The importers guide on the site walks a worked example. VAT in destination may sit on a different base again.
Add lines: merchandise value, freight, insurance, duty percent, brokerage, local trucking, whatever you actually pay. Sum to a per-unit landed cost if you enter quantity. The tool does not know your HS code. You type the duty rate you were told or looked up. If that rate is wrong, the pretty total is wrong. Brokerage invoices exist for a reason.
When not to use it: classifying goods, origin preference programs, anti-dumping, and drawing a check to customs. Also skip FX hedges; pick a USD (or local) number and note the date. DiscountShift is retail VAT. CalcShift is a mortgage. RecipeShift costs soup. This page is the import stack. FX is a snapshot you type with a date; this is not a hedge and not a live mid-market feed.
Privacy is local: supplier quotes stay in the tab. That is nicer than a SaaS that wants your BOM. Still not legal advice. After you have a number, compare to the commercial invoice and the entry summary when they arrive. If they disagree, the entry wins. Close the tab. Destination VAT often sits on a broader base than duty; model it as a separate line only if you know that base.
2,000 widgets, FOB $4.20 ($8,400 goods), ocean $1,100, insurance $80. CIF = $9,580. Duty 6.5 percent on CIF ≈ $623. Brokerage $150, trucking $220. Landed ≈ $10,573, about $5.29 a unit before your warehouse labor. The $4.20 quote was a story. You still confirm HS code with a broker. Numbers stayed in the browser; the guide's worked example is the narrative twin of this stack. Four dollars twenty becoming about five twenty-nine a unit is why factory quotes are not warehouse costs.
LandedShift calculates in the browser. Quotes and BOMs stay on the device. There is no customs filing, no supplier database, and no upload of a factory invoice. Close the tab when the number is in your cost sheet and you are done comparing quotes.
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Many lanes assess on CIF (goods + freight + insurance). Some talk FOB. Wrong base is a large error. The landed-cost guide shows an order of operations. Confirm with a broker for the actual country.
No. It is a calculator. A licensed broker and the customs authority file. If the entry summary disagrees, the entry is the legal math. A licensed broker and the customs authority file the entry; this page will not transmit a 7501 for you.
HS code plus the destination tariff schedule, preferably via a broker. Typing 5 percent because a forum said so is how you underprice. HS code plus the destination tariff schedule, preferably via a broker, is where the duty percent actually comes from.
No. Duty is customs on the import base. VAT/GST may apply to a broader amount (often including duty). Model them as separate lines if you include tax at all. Duty is customs on the import base; VAT or GST may apply to a broader amount, often including the duty itself.
Longer guide: Landed Cost For Importers
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