US Tariff Calculator

What is in force today

Four things follow from that, and they are the four that change how you cost a shipment:

• The spread between origins has collapsed. The old schedule ran from 10 to 145 percent, so the country of origin could decide whether a product existed. The gap between the two tiers now is 2.5 points. Sourcing decisions taken to escape a 46 percent rate are worth re-checking.
• Section 232 no longer stacks on the country line. Goods covered by a Section 232 programme are excluded from the forced-labor action. A steel article pays the Section 232 rate instead of the 10 or 12.5 percent, not on top of it.
• China is the one origin where stacking still dominates. The 12.5 percent is additive to the older Section 301 list duties, which never went away.
• The new action has no sunset and no rate cap. Section 122 was capped by statute at 15 percent and 150 days. Section 301 carries neither limit, so this is more durable than anything that preceded it since 2025.

What this calculator actually tells you

Landed cost is the number that decides whether an import is worth doing. It is the total cost of getting a unit onto your shelf, and the tariff is only one line in it.

Importers get caught out because the duty is the visible number and the rest is not. A 12.5 percent tariff sounds like a 12.5 percent problem. In practice the duty lands on the customs value rather than on the product cost, your MFN rate and any trade-remedy duty sit underneath it, the processing fees add a little more, and the whole increase then has to be absorbed by a margin that was set before any of it existed.

Three people read the landed cost number for different reasons:

• Purchasing uses it to compare suppliers honestly. A lower unit price from a higher tariff origin is often the more expensive option, and only landed cost shows that.
• Pricing uses it to work out the break-even sale price, which is the point at which a product stops being worth stocking at all.
• Finance uses it for cash planning, because duty is payable on entry, long before the goods are sold and much longer before the customer pays for them.

The calculation, part by part

Five steps, and four of the five common mistakes happen in the first two.

A worked example

An importer buys $10,000 of furniture components from China with $2,000 of ocean freight. The forced-labor duty is 12.5 percent and the older Section 301 List 3 duty on that classification is 25 percent, so the two add to 37.5 percent. Enter that as a custom rate.

• Customs value: 10,000 + 2,000 = $12,000
• Effective rate: 12.5 + 25 = 37.5 percent
• Duty: 12,000 x 0.375 = $4,500
• Merchandise Processing Fee at 0.3464 percent: 12,000 x 0.003464 = $41.57
• Harbor Maintenance Fee at 0.125 percent: 12,000 x 0.00125 = $15.00
• Total landed cost: 10,000 + 2,000 + 4,500 + 41.57 + 15.00 = $16,556.57

Over 1,000 units that is $16.56 landed per unit against $12.00 before the tariff, an increase of 38 percent on the cost base. If the product was priced at $20 with a comfortable looking 40 percent margin on the pre-tariff cost, the margin after the tariff is 17.2 percent, and the break-even price has moved to $16.56. That is the whole problem with tariffs in one line: they do not reduce your margin proportionally, they reduce it by the whole duty amount, out of the margin only.

Change one detail and the arithmetic inverts. If those components were steel rather than wood, Section 232 would take over: the article pays 50 percent if it is wholly steel or 25 percent as a derivative product, charged on the full customs value since 6 April 2026, and the 12.5 percent forced-labor duty drops away because Section 232 goods are excluded from it. The List 3 duty still applies. Adding all three would overstate the bill by 12.5 points.

How to read your number

The useful ratio is duty as a share of total landed cost. It tells you how exposed the product is to a policy change, which is a different question from whether it is profitable today. Under the current regime a plain consumer good from a listed origin usually lands in the first band. Anything in the top two bands is there because of Section 232, the older China list duties or a trade remedy, not because of the country line.

One caution on the bands. A high share is not automatically bad and a low share is not automatically safe. A 5 percent duty on a product with a 6 percent margin is more dangerous than a 30 percent duty on a product with a 60 percent margin. Read the duty share alongside the margin after tariff, which the calculator gives you when you enter a sale price.

Economies targeted by US tariffs

The ad valorem Section 301 forced-labor duty on US imports, in force since 24 July 2026. The USTR notice names 60 economies and treats the European Union as one of them, so the map below splits the EU into its 27 member states to make it resolvable, giving 86 rows. Hover a country for its rate, search for one by name, or click it to open the record of policy actions taken against it. The band strip shows how the two tiers divide.

Two tiers, and the split is behavioural rather than economic. An economy pays 10 percent if it bans imports of forced-labor goods, has committed to such a ban in an Agreement on Reciprocal Trade, or operates a partial regime. Everything else pays 12.5 percent. Five economies are handled differently again: the European Union and Taiwan at 10 percent, and Japan, South Korea and Switzerland at 12.5 percent, are charged net of the MFN duty, so the figure shown is the combined floor and the Section 301 component falls to zero wherever the MFN rate already meets it.

Section 301 forced-labor duties in force from 24 July 2026, drawn from the frontmatter rather than fetched, so the map works with scripts disabled. Section 232 sector duties are excluded from this action and replace it on covered goods, USMCA-qualifying goods from Canada and Mexico are exempt outright, several hundred HTS subheadings are excluded, and the older Section 301 list duties on China stack on top. All four can move a real entry a long way off its country line.

US tariff rate by country

These are the Section 301 forced-labor duties in force from 12:01am ET on 24 July 2026, replacing the 10% Section 122 surcharge that expired the same minute. It is a base country rate only, and it sits on top of the MFN rate for your HTS code. Search for your origin. If it is not here, it is not in the USTR notice and carries no duty under this action, though it still pays its MFN rate and any sector or trade-remedy duty.

Why the rates keep moving

Most tariff schedules sit still for years. This one changed legal footing three times in twelve months, and that is the single most useful thing to know about it.

The 2025 reciprocal rates were imposed under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act rather than through the ordinary tariff process. That made them fast to introduce and equally exposed to challenge. On 20 February 2026 the Supreme Court held 6-3 in Learning Resources, Inc. v. Trump that IEEPA does not authorise tariffs at all, striking down both the reciprocal schedule and the trafficking tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China. Four days later a flat 10 percent surcharge took their place under Section 122 of the Trade Act of 1974, a balance-of-payments provision capped at 15 percent and 150 days.

That did not hold either. On 7 May 2026 the Court of International Trade ruled 2-1 that the Section 122 action was ultra vires, because the deficit measures relied on were not what Congress meant by a large and serious balance-of-payments problem in 1974. The practical effect was narrow: the injunction covered only the named plaintiffs, the Federal Circuit stayed the ruling on 12 May, and everyone else kept paying. The tariff then ended on its own terms at 12:01am ET on 24 July 2026 when the 150 days ran out.

The Section 301 forced-labor duties took effect at that same minute, which is why importers saw no gap. The change of statute matters more than the change of rate. Section 301 requires an investigation and a finding before action, which is slower to impose and correspondingly harder to unwind, and unlike Section 122 it carries no expiry date and no rate cap. The country line is lower than it was in 2025 and considerably better anchored.

The conclusion that stays true regardless: a country rate table is a planning tool, and the entry summary your broker files is the only figure that is actually binding. Build your costing model so the rate is an input you can change in one place, not a number typed into a hundred spreadsheets.

US tariff calendar

Every dated tariff action since the start of the second Trump administration, 82 of them, with the status each one reached and a link to the underlying order or report. This is the record the section above is drawn from, and most of it is now history: the 2025 entries describe a schedule that no longer exists. Open 2026 for the sequence that produced the rates you pay today. Filter by status, or step through the years.

The 2024 and 2025 entries are carried across from the previous version of this page, which sourced them from White House executive orders and fact sheets, the Federal Register, USTR and major news outlets, and they have not been re-verified. The 2026 entries were checked on 14 August 2026 against the Supreme Court judgment, the Court of International Trade opinions, the USTR final action notice and law firm client alerts from Holland & Knight, Greenberg Traurig, Troutman Pepper Locke, Skadden and White & Case. A historical record, not legal or financial advice.

Policy actions by economy, 2025 to early 2026

It is kept because the dates still matter. CBP opened its CAPE refund process in ACE on 20 April 2026, and eligibility runs from 4 February 2025 for the trafficking tariffs and 5 April 2025 for the reciprocal tariffs through to 24 February 2026. If you imported in that window, these are the actions you paid under. Follow the source link on any row to the order or notice it came from.

Sourced per action to White House executive orders and fact sheets, the Federal Register, USTR and Atlantic Council GeoEconomics Center research, as recorded by the previous version of this page. A record of the 2025 to early 2026 period, superseded on 20 February 2026 for every IEEPA row. Pre-existing and commodity-specific tariffs and exemptions are not shown.

Your HTS code matters more than your country

The country of origin sets a headline. The ten digit Harmonized Tariff Schedule code sets the actual duty, and two products that look identical on a shelf can sit in different codes with different rates. That has become more true, not less, since July 2026. When the country line ran from 10 to 145 percent, origin was the dominant variable. Now that it is 10 or 12.5 percent, almost all of the spread between two shipments comes from classification: whether the code is on the forced-labor exclusion list, whether it falls inside a Section 232 programme, and which China list it sits on.

The code has a structure worth knowing. The first six digits are the international HS code, shared by every country that uses the system. Digits seven and eight are US specific and are where the US rate is set. The last two digits are statistical and do not change the duty.

Classification decides more than the base rate. Sector tariffs apply to specific codes rather than to whole industries, so whether your part counts as an article of steel or as a derivative product is a classification question worth 25 points. Trade agreement eligibility depends on classification, because the rules of origin are written per code. Exclusions are written per code too, and the forced-labor action excludes several hundred HTS subheadings outright, covering raw materials, critical minerals, agricultural commodities, pharmaceuticals, semiconductors and civil aircraft. Getting the code wrong can mean an underpayment with penalties, an overpayment nobody refunds, or a shipment sitting at the port.

Search your description in the USITC HTS database to get close, then have a licensed customs broker confirm it. For a product you will import repeatedly, a binding ruling request to CBP is worth the effort, because it gives you a classification you can actually rely on.

What pushes landed cost the wrong way

Before you assume the tariff did it, check which of these is actually moving your number.

• The valuation basis. Duty on goods plus freight against duty on goods alone changes the duty by the freight share, which on bulky low value goods can be a fifth of the customs value.
• Stacking you did not model. On China the older Section 301 list duty adds 7.5 or 25 points to the country line, and on strategic goods far more. That is invisible on any table that shows only country rates, including this one.
• Stacking you modelled that does not exist. The opposite mistake, and it is the new one. Section 232 goods are excluded from the Section 301 forced-labor duty, so adding 12.5 percent to a 50 percent steel article overstates the bill by 12.5 points. Check whether your code sits inside a Section 232 programme before you add anything to it.
• Splitting one order across entries. The processing fee has a floor per entry, so many small entries cost more in fees than one consolidated entry of the same total value.
• Freight priced separately from duty. When freight rates rise, duty rises with them on a CIF basis. The two costs are not independent and modelling them as if they were understates the swing.
• Assuming a trade agreement applies. Goods that fail the rules of origin are ordinary imports. Eligibility is a documentation exercise, not a geography one.

How to reduce duty legally

Every route below is legitimate and every one of them depends on documentation that has to survive an audit. Confirm the approach with a customs broker or a trade attorney before you build a price around it.

1. Qualify for a trade agreement. USMCA can take Canadian and Mexican goods to zero, and goods that qualify are also exempt outright from the Section 301 forced-labor duty rather than merely paying a lower rate. That only holds if the product meets the rules of origin for its code and you hold a valid certification of origin. CAFTA-DR textiles and apparel from the six Central American members carry a similar exclusion.
2. Classify correctly, and favorably. Not a loophole. Where a product genuinely fits more than one code, the lower duty code is yours to use, and a binding ruling makes it defensible.
3. Use the first sale rule. Where goods pass through a middleman, the manufacturer's price can sometimes be the dutiable value rather than the price you paid, provided the chain of documentation supports it.
4. Claim duty drawback. If imported goods are later exported, or used to make something that is exported, a large share of the duty paid can be reclaimed. Most importers who qualify never file.
5. Use a foreign trade zone or a bonded warehouse. Duty is deferred until the goods leave the zone, and is avoided entirely on anything re-exported from it. This is a cash flow tool as much as a cost tool.
6. Check the published exclusions first. This is the highest yield item on the list today. The forced-labor action excludes several hundred HTS subheadings outright, plus Section 232 goods, civil aircraft and components, informational materials, humanitarian donations and accompanied personal baggage, and patented pharmaceuticals were added on 31 July 2026. Textile and apparel tariff-rate quotas run for Bangladesh, Cambodia, Indonesia and Malaysia on an initial three-year term. Exclusions change, so this is a recurring check rather than a one off.
7. Consolidate entries. Fewer, larger entries reduce the per entry processing fee floor, which matters most for importers making frequent small shipments.
8. Reclaim the IEEPA duty you already paid. Not a reduction going forward, but the largest single item available to most importers right now. Duties collected under the tariffs the Supreme Court struck down are refundable, and CBP opened an administrative process for it in April 2026. Eligibility runs from 4 February 2025 for the trafficking tariffs and 5 April 2025 for the reciprocal tariffs, through to 24 February 2026. Your broker files it; the money is real and the window will not stay open forever.

Worth being straight about the limits of this page: tariffs are a customs problem, and Paidnice is not a customs product. Where the two touch is cash. Duty is paid on entry, weeks or months before the goods sell and longer before the customer pays. That gap is funded out of working capital, and every day your own receivables run late makes it wider. If the tariff has already taken the slack out of your margin, automated payment reminders and receivables reporting are about the only lever left that costs you nothing to pull.

Calculating landed cost in Excel

With product cost in A2, freight in B2, the country rate in C2, the sector rate in D2 and quantity in E2:

• Customs value: =A2+B2
• Effective rate: =C2+D2
• Duty: =(A2+B2)*(C2+D2)/100
• Merchandise Processing Fee with its floor and ceiling: =MIN(651.5,MAX(33.58,(A2+B2)*0.003464))
• Harbor Maintenance Fee, with a sea or air flag in F2: =IF(F2="sea",(A2+B2)*0.00125,0)
• Total landed cost: =A2+B2+(A2+B2)*(C2+D2)/100+MIN(651.5,MAX(33.58,(A2+B2)*0.003464))+IF(F2="sea",(A2+B2)*0.00125,0)
• Break-even sale price per unit: =(total landed cost)/E2
• Margin after tariff, with the sale price in G2: =(G2-((total landed cost)/E2))/G2

This against the other calculators

Landed cost answers what the goods cost you. These answer what happens to the cash afterwards.

The pairing that matters for an importer is landed cost against the cash conversion cycle. Duty goes out on entry. Inventory sits. Then the invoice sits. Tariffs make the first number bigger, and the other two decide how long you have to fund it.

Common mistakes

• Applying the duty to the product cost only. Where the valuation basis includes freight, ignoring it understates the duty by the freight share of the shipment.
• Compounding stacked tariffs. Add the rates, then multiply once. Applying 12.5 percent and then 25 percent to the result gives 40.6 percent, not 37.5.
• Adding Section 232 to the country rate. Section 232 goods are excluded from the Section 301 forced-labor duty. One or the other, not both.
• Still pricing off the 2025 reciprocal rates. That schedule was struck down on 20 February 2026. If a costing model anywhere in your business still carries a 46 percent Vietnam line or a 145 percent China line, it is wrong by a wide margin and probably in your favour.
• Leaving out the processing fees. Small individually, but they are per entry and they are certain, unlike most of the rest of a landed cost estimate.
• Charging the Harbor Maintenance Fee on air freight. It applies to cargo arriving by sea.
• Using a country rate as the product rate. The country rate is a starting point. Your ten digit code is what CBP charges against.
• Treating a saved table as current. Including this one. The legal basis for the US country tariff changed three times between February and July 2026.
• Pricing off cost per unit before duty. The break-even price is the landed cost per unit. Anything below it is a loss dressed as a sale.