Landed Cost Calculator

This landed cost calculator turns a supplier’s quoted unit price into the true cost of a product once freight, duty, insurance, and handling are added — the number you actually need before you can set margin. Paste a single line or a whole price file; everything is computed in your browser.

What it checks

The calculator takes your input cost and incremental charges and returns a defensible per-unit landed cost. Specifically, it computes and validates:

• Base goods cost — unit price times quantity, in the currency you supply, with optional FX conversion to your selling currency.
• Freight and inbound transport — ocean, air, or LTL charges, either as a flat shipment cost allocated across units or as a per-unit rate.
• Duty and tariff — applied as a percentage of the customs value, so you can plug in the rate tied to a product’s HS code. A toggle sets the valuation basis: CIF (goods plus freight and insurance, used by the EU and most countries) or FOB/transaction value (goods only, used by the US).
• Insurance, brokerage, and port/handling fees — insurance as a flat amount or a percentage of goods value; brokerage, port, and other fees as fixed amounts added to the final value.
• Import VAT or GST — charged on customs value plus duty (and, optionally, fees), and left out of landed cost if you can reclaim it.
• Allocation basis — splits shipment-level costs across line items by quantity, weight, or value, and flags when allocation bases are missing.
• Per-unit landed cost and landed multiplier — the final figure plus the ratio of landed cost to base cost, so you can spot SKUs where freight and duty quietly inflate cost.

How the landed cost calculator works

Landed cost follows a consistent build-up used across MRO, CPG, furniture, and industrial distribution:

1. 1
   Start with goods value
   Multiply unit price by quantity and convert currency if the supplier quotes in a different one than you sell in.
2. 2
   Allocate shipment costs
   Spread freight, insurance, and brokerage across line items by quantity, weight, or value so a 40 kg motor absorbs more freight than a 200 g connector on the same container.
3. 3
   Apply duty on customs value
   Multiply the dutiable value by the tariff rate that maps to the item’s HS code. Different commodities on one shipment can carry very different rates.
4. 4
   Sum to per-unit landed cost
   Add goods, allocated logistics, duty, and fees, then divide by quantity for a clean per-unit number you can feed into pricing.

The one rule that changes the arithmetic is the valuation basis: under CIF, freight and insurance are dutiable; under FOB, they are not. There is no fixed international “landed cost standard” — the components vary by Incoterm, lane, and commodity. What stays constant is the arithmetic, and that is what this tool standardizes. Because every calculation runs client-side in your browser, your cost files, supplier rates, and margins are never uploaded to a server. That matters when the input is a confidential price list rather than a single SKU.

Related resources

Landed cost is one input to pricing. Pair it with the tools and guides below to go from supplier file to set price.

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