FTA Savings Estimator

Curated by Vinod Kumar Jain & Amit Jain · All Frontier Global · free, no login

A free-trade agreement is only worth using if the duty saved beats the paperwork. Enter your shipment value and the two duty rates — the normal MFN rate and the preferential FTA rate for your tariff line — and see the saving instantly. Both rates are yours to look up: they change, so we don't hard-code them.

The formula

• MFN duty = value × MFN rate %
• FTA duty = value × preferential rate %
• Saving = value × (MFN − preferential) ÷ 100, i.e. the duty difference

Before you bank the saving

• Rules of origin decide everything. The preferential rate applies only if the goods qualify as “originating” under that FTA (tariff-shift, value-content or process rules) and you hold the required proof — a certificate of origin or approved self-declaration. India’s CAROTAR rules also let customs question origin claims on imports.
• Look up live rates: the importing country’s tariff schedule shows both MFN and preferential columns — ICEGATE for India, TARIC for the EU, the HTS for the United States. India’s agreements (UAE CEPA, ASEAN, Japan, Australia ECTA…) each have their own schedule and staging; some lines phase to zero over years rather than on day one.
• Other charges — VAT/GST, anti-dumping duties, fees — are usually unaffected by the FTA.
• Weigh the saving against compliance cost: certificates, record-keeping and origin audits aren’t free.

Sources

Both rates come from you. We deliberately cite no rate table and mirror none: MFN and preferential schedules change by notification, and a cached copy on this page would be wrong within months. Read them off the importing country’s own tariff on the day you quote. Nothing on this page is fetched or stored.

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