Import Tariff Calculator

What you actually owe on goods from China, Vietnam or India — with each layer of the 2026 duty stack shown separately and linked to the notice it comes from.

Declared value per unit

$

The customs value: goods plus any packing you pay for separately.

Units in this shipment

Country of origin

Product category

Section 301 list (China)

Applies per HTS code — check yours, we won't guess it.

Section 232 goods (steel, aluminium, copper, vehicles)Exempt from the forced labor duty, but carry their own Section 232 rates this tool does not model.

Combined duty rate

36.5%

Estimated duty per unit: $3.29
Duty on the whole shipment: $1,642.50

There is no duty-free allowance. Since 29 August 2025 every commercial shipment owes duty regardless of value, and CBP made the suspension permanent regulation on 24 June 2026.

How that 36.5% duty rate is built

What this estimate can get wrong (2)

MFN is a category approximation from 6109.10.00. Rates apply per 10-digit HTS code and range 2.6%–32% across HTS 6109–6110.
Annex I of the USTR notice exempts civil aircraft parts, articles for pharmaceutical use, steel/aluminium/copper articles and passenger vehicles and their parts (goods already covered by Section 232), and charitable relief donations. Nothing in the consumer categories here is exempt — but if you import metal drinkware, aluminium cases or similar, check whether your code falls under the Section 232 carve-out.

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What you pay, and why it is not one number

US import duty is not a single rate. It is a stack, and in 2026 that stack has three layers for a typical consumer-goods importer:

Total duty = MFN rate + Section 301 (China lists) + Section 301 (forced labor)

The MFN rate comes from the tariff schedule and depends on your 10-digit HTS code. The China list rate applies only to goods from China and only to codes on Lists 1–4. The forced labor duty took effect on 24 July 2026 and applies by country: 12.5% for China and Vietnam, 10% for India.

Most tariff calculators hand you a total and leave you to trust it. This one shows the layers, because when one of them changes — and three of them changed during 2026 — you need to know which.

How each input changes the answer

Declared value per unit: The customs value, which is the price of the goods plus any packing you pay for separately. It is not the retail price and it does not include international freight under FOB terms.
Country of origin: Origin means where the goods were made, not where they shipped from. Routing Chinese goods through a third country does not change their origin, and getting this wrong is the fastest route to a penalty rather than a saving.
Product category: Sets the MFN layer. This is a category-level approximation — the real rate follows your 10-digit HTS code, and inside a single category rates can range from free to over 30%. The result panel shows the range for whichever category you pick.
Section 301 list (China only): Applies per HTS code, so we do not guess it. Lists 1–3 are 25%, List 4A is 7.5%. Look your code up before relying on the total.

A worked example

Five hundred knit cotton t-shirts from China at $9 declared value each. The MFN rate for that heading is 16.5%. Say your code sits on List 4A at 7.5%. Add the 12.5% forced labor duty and the combined rate is 36.5%.

That is $3.29 per unit and $1,642.50 on the shipment. Before the forced labor layer the same goods carried 24% and cost $1,080.00 — that one layer added $562.50 to this single order.

Switch the origin to India and the rate drops to 26.5% — $1,192.50 on the same shipment, a $450 saving — because India adopted a forced labor import prohibition after the June 2026 notice and moved to the 10% tier. Whether that saving survives your freight and lead-time difference is a separate calculation.

How to sanity-check the number

There is no benchmark duty rate to compare against — the only useful check is against your own paperwork. Three things worth doing before you commit to a purchase order:

Look up your actual HTS code in the tariff schedule rather than trusting a category. Ask your customs broker to confirm the classification in writing, because their classification is what governs and yours is what you guessed. And check whether any of your codes carry a specific duty on top of the percentage — some footwear and apparel headings add cents per pair or per kilogram, which this calculator does not model and which will make your real bill higher.

Once you trust the duty figure, the question that actually matters is what it does to the ROAS you need. That is the next calculator.

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Questions

Is there still a duty-free threshold for small shipments?: No. The de minimis exemption ended for Chinese goods on 2 May 2025 and for everything else on 29 August 2025, and on 24 June 2026 CBP moved the suspension from executive order into permanent regulation. Every commercial shipment owes duty regardless of value, and needs a formal or informal entry rather than the old administrative exemption.
Did the Supreme Court ruling cancel these tariffs?: It cancelled one layer, not all of them. On 20 February 2026 the Court held that IEEPA does not authorise tariffs, which struck down the reciprocal tariffs imposed under it. Section 301 and Section 232 rest on different statutes and were unaffected — including the China lists and the forced labor duty that replaced Section 122 in July 2026.
Is duty charged on the freight as well as the goods?: Not under FOB terms. Customs values the goods, plus packing and certain other additions the buyer pays for separately. International freight is a cost of getting them to you, not part of their value. Under CIF terms the arithmetic differs, which is one reason your incoterm matters more than it looks.
Do I get the duty back if the customer returns the item?: No. Duty is paid on import and is not refunded when the goods go back to your customer — only a formal duty drawback claim on re-export recovers it, and that is rarely worth the paperwork on single consumer returns. This is why a return costs more than the sale it reverses.
Why does this show a range rather than one exact rate?: Because a category is not an HTS code. Knit apparel spans rates from 2.6% to 32% depending on fibre and construction. We show the representative rate we calculate with, the code it comes from, and the full range for that heading, so you can see how much uncertainty you are carrying.

Sources and last update

Last verified 2026-08-22.

Figures here are planning estimates. Duty applies per 10-digit HTS code and platform fees change without much notice — check your own broker and your own seller account before committing spend. Full workings on the methodology page.