About Us

Why we built a free landed cost calculator for US importers.

The Import Duty & Landed Cost Calculator started from a simple frustration shared by e-commerce sellers, dropshippers, and small importers: getting a fast, honest read on what a shipment will actually cost to bring into the United States shouldn't require a spreadsheet, a broker's quote, or a guess. Duty rates, Merchandise Processing Fees, Harbor Maintenance Fees, and the shifting rules around de minimis and Section 301/122/232 tariffs make it easy to under-price a product and only discover the real margin after the shipment has already cleared customs.

We built this site to close that gap — a free, instant tool that models the actual mechanics of a US customs entry, so anyone importing goods for resale can see estimated duties, government fees, and total landed cost before committing to a purchase order, not after.

What we are

We're an independent, ad-supported publisher of free trade and logistics tools. We are not a licensed customs broker, freight forwarder, law firm, or accounting firm, and this site does not file customs entries or provide paid brokerage services. Our calculators are built for planning and pricing purposes — a way to sanity-check numbers before you talk to the professionals who handle your actual filing.

How we keep the numbers current

US trade policy changes quickly — de minimis treatment, country-specific Section 301 tariffs, and reciprocal Section 122 surcharges have all shifted materially in recent years. We track publicly available guidance from US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and the Office of the US Trade Representative (USTR) and update our country data and calculator logic as the rules change. That said, every figure on this site is an estimate — see our Customs Compliance Disclaimer for the full picture on what this tool can and can't tell you.

Get in touch

Found an error in a duty rate, have a suggestion, or want to report a bug? We'd like to hear from you — visit our Contact Us page to reach out.