Landed Cost Calculator for China Imports

Why landed cost is the only cost that matters

A freight rate tells you what it costs to move goods. Landed cost tells you what it costs to have goods. Pricing a retail SKU off a freight rate is how importers end up selling at a loss without noticing, because the expensive part of a 2026 import is usually not the shipping.

What the calculator exposes is the share each component takes, which changes the decision you should be making:

• If duty dominates, the leverage is classification, an exclusion, or a different product, not a cheaper carrier.
• If freight dominates, mode and consolidation are worth optimising, and it is worth checking the caliber and inclusion list on the quote properly.
• If fixed per-entry costs dominate, the problem is shipment size, not rate.

The itemised view of every component, and who usually pays it, is on the shipping cost page.

Getting the duty figure right before trusting the total

Landed cost is only as accurate as the duty input. Use the duty calculator to build the stack first, then carry that figure into this one. Two checks are worth making either way: whether an exclusion covers your line (178 of them expire on 2026-11-09) and whether the 12.5% forced-labor layer is exempt for your HTS code. Both are covered on the duty stack.

Why the per-unit figure is the output that matters

Total landed cost is a cash-flow number. Per-unit landed cost is a pricing number, and it is the one that tells you whether a product is viable at all. A USD 24,000 landed cost on 1,000 units is USD 24 a unit; the same shipment on 400 units is USD 60. Fixed per-entry costs do not scale with your order size, which is the whole reason consolidation and larger, less frequent orders improve unit economics.