TrueCost Importer · free
Free import landed cost calculator
Cost one product or shipment, with no sign-in. It works for any destination: start with the global setup and enter the rules for your country, or load a preset as a starting point.
How to use this calculator
- 1. Choose your destination and load a preset, or name any jurisdiction and enter the rules yourself.
- 2. Enter the product and shipment costs — total supplier cost, units, international freight and insurance. Together those give CIF, the delivered-to-port value customs starts from.
- 3. Enter duty, tax, excise or levies and other costs such as clearing, handling and trucking, confirmed against your destination’s tariff.
- 4. Add your local selling price and review the landed cost, profit and margin.
This calculator estimates one product in one shipment and does not save your figures — reloading the page clears them. How the calculation works · Multi-product shipments in TrueCost Pro
Product and shipment details
Purchase cost + international freight + insurance = CIF, the starting value used by customs.
Preset loaded. You can rename it and still edit every rule.
Units you will actually sell from this shipment.
Total cost of the whole product line, not the price of one unit.
What the forwarder charges to move the goods to your port or airport.
Cargo insurance premium for this shipment. Enter 0 if uninsured.
2–10 digits. Dots and spaces are fine.
Enter at least 2 digits to look the code up in the HS 2022 nomenclature.
National 8–10 digit wording varies by customs jurisdiction. Copy the exact line your destination authority publishes.
Your destination customs source — separate from the UN HS reference.
The first six digits of an HS code are internationally harmonised. Longer 8–10 digit codes, duty rates, origin treatment, rebates and exemptions are set by the destination country. TrueCost only pre-fills a duty rate where a published tariff table for your destination has been loaded, and always shows the edition it came from — confirm the tariff line, its source and the date you verified it before pricing.
All figures use one currency.
Needed only for weight-based excise.
Needed only for volume-based excise.
- Duty is calculated on CIF (goods + freight + insurance).
- GST is 13% on a base of CIF + customs duty + ECOWAS Trade Levy + applicable excise.
- Destination inspection is 1.2% of CIF or US$190, whichever is higher.
- Cargo Tracking Note is US$150 for a 20ft and US$250 for a 40ft container.
- Every rate stays editable — treat all outputs as an estimate until confirmed by your broker or the Liberia Revenue Authority.
Duty, GST and customs rules
Every rate is editable. Nothing is assumed from the HS code.
South Africa uses 10%. Set 0 where no uplift applies.
Leave off unless your destination explicitly taxes these.
Excise and government levies
Excise and government levies
Add as many rules as you need — percentage, specific (per item, kg, ton, litre or gallon) or fixed, each with optional minimum and maximum.
0.5% of CIF. Forms part of the GST base.
1.2% of CIF or US$190, whichever is higher. A border/clearance cost, not a government tax in the GST base.
US$150 for a 20ft container, US$250 for a 40ft container.
Clearing, delivery and other costs
Editable cost lines
Clearing, broker, terminal, documentation, banking and inland delivery.
Total commercial costs: $0.00
Local market and profit test
Commission, packaging, local delivery.
How this calculator works
The calculator follows the same sequence customs authorities use, and it shows every intermediate figure so you can check it against your own paperwork.
- CIF = goods value + international freight + insurance.
- Customs duty = duty base × your product duty rate. The base is CIF in most countries, and the goods value alone in the United States.
- Excise and levies are separate rules. Each can be a percentage of a base you choose, a specific amount per item, kilogram, metric ton, litre or gallon, or a fixed amount — with an optional minimum and maximum.
- Import VAT or GST = your tax rate × the base your destination uses. The global starting pattern is customs value + duty + included excise and levies. Broker and trucking charges are not taxed unless your destination says so.
- Total landed cost = CIF + duty + excise + levies + VAT/GST + clearing and delivery costs. Divide by sellable units for landed cost per unit.
- Profit per unit = selling price − landed cost per unit − selling cost per unit. Margin is profit per unit ÷ selling price.
Country-specific guides
- Importing into Liberia — CIF, duty, ECOWAS Trade Levy, 13% GST base, inspection and cargo tracking.
- Importing into South Africa — added tax value, the 10% uplift and non-rebated duty.
- How to calculate landed cost anywhere
- Which charges belong in the import VAT or GST base — the setting people most often get wrong here.
- Why a six-digit HS code never carries a duty rate
- Percentage, per-unit and fixed excise rules — including minimums and maximums.
- Browse all import costing guides, or read how we calculate and verify.
Need more than one product?
TrueCost Pro keeps every feature on this page and adds multi-product shipments, saved projects, shared cost allocation, supplier comparison, reconciliation against actual invoices and full reports.
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