Landed cost per unit.
Understand your true unit cost when factoring in freight, duties and taxes to see how far this lands from your suppliers FOB price.
Your numbers
What you pay the factory per unit.
$
Total units on this shipment.
How is your freight quoted?
Everything the forwarder charges for this shipment, surcharges included.
$
Duty basisUS customs values goods on FOB. UK and EU assess duty on CIF, which adds freight and insurance to the base.
The base tariff rate on this product's HS code.
%
Anything stacking on top of the base rate, such as Section 301 on China origin goods.
%
Cargo insurance for this shipment. Separate because it counts toward the CIF duty base.
$
Drayage, brokerage and port fees. US sea imports also carry a merchandise processing fee and a harbour maintenance fee.
$
ResultsExample figures
Landed cost per unit$12.37
+37.4% vs FOBFOB 72.8%Freight 16.2%Duty 7.3%Insurance 0.6%Other 3.2%
FOB unit cost$9.00
72.8%Freight per unit$2.00
16.2%Duty per unit$0.90
10.0% on $9.00Insurance per unit$0.07
0.6%Other per unit$0.40
3.2%Total landed cost of shipment$61,850
That is your real cost per unit. If the uplift surprised you, the audit finds which parts of it are negotiable. Most are.
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