Landed Cost Calculator

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

The true cost of an import isn't the invoice — it's goods plus freight, insurance, duty, taxes and fees. Enter your numbers in one currency and the total rebuilds itself as you type, with every step of the arithmetic on show so you can check it rather than trust it.

The arithmetic, in order

• CIF customs value = goods value + freight + insurance (if you entered insurance as a percentage, it is taken on goods + freight)
• Duty = CIF × duty rate %
• Cess = duty × cess % — a surcharge on the duty, which is how India’s Social Welfare Surcharge is levied; leave it blank if your country has no such layer
• Tax base = whichever combination you selected — shown explicitly in the result so it is never a hidden assumption
• GST / VAT = tax base × tax rate %
• Landed total = CIF + duty + cess + tax + other fees
• Per unit = landed total ÷ units

Honest limits

• This is indicative arithmetic, not a customs assessment. Customs valuation rules and tax bases vary by country: most jurisdictions, India and the EU among them, assess duty on a CIF value, while the United States generally values on an FOB basis with freight and insurance excluded. Set your inputs to match the country you are importing into, and confirm the treatment with a broker or the official tariff before you price anything.
• The duty rate is yours to find. We hard-code no rate. Rates move with budgets, trade agreements and trade-remedy actions — read the live figure off the importing country’s own tariff (ICEGATE in India, TARIC in the EU, the HTS in the United States) on the day you quote.
• Layers this does not model: anti-dumping and safeguard duties, quota and licence costs, demurrage and detention, and any tax that is assessed on a base other than the four offered above.
• Single currency. Everything is computed in whatever currency you type; there is no conversion and nothing is fetched. For a reference rate to convert with first, see the market page — then enter one consistent currency here.
• If you can reclaim the GST/VAT as input credit, it is a cash-flow cost rather than a final one. The landed total below does not make that distinction for you.

Sources

No external source is called and no rate table is mirrored — every figure in the result is one you entered, combined by the arithmetic set out above. The named tariff systems (ICEGATE, TARIC, HTS) are pointers for your own lookup, not data feeds. Nothing is fetched or stored.

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