Landed Cost Calculator
The price on the purchase order is the smallest number an imported item will ever cost you. Put in one shipment and see what each unit costs by the time it is on your shelf, and what that does to the margin you thought you had. The example values are there to show the shape of it; replace them with yours. Nothing you type leaves your browser.
Landed cost per unit
$0.00
0% above the purchase-order price of $0.00
Total for the shipment
$0.00
| Cost | Shipment | Per unit |
|---|---|---|
| Landed cost | $0.00 | $0.00 |
How it calculates
Landed cost is the product price plus everything it took to get the goods to your door: freight, insurance, duty, and the broker, port, and handling fees on the entry paperwork. This page adds those up and spreads the extras evenly across the units in the shipment. Inside an ERP the allocation can be smarter. NetSuite'slanded cost feature, for example, allocates by value, weight, or quantity across the items in a shipment, so a heavy cheap item and a light expensive one each carry their fair share.
Which duty basis to pick
In the United States, customs duty is generally assessed on the transaction value of the goods, the price paid or payable, and international freight and insurance are excluded from that value when they are identified separately (19 CFR 152.103). That is the "product value only" option. Many other countries assess duty on a CIF basis, cost plus insurance plus freight, which is the second option. Your customs broker knows which applies to your entries. For US entries, enter the actual freight and insurance you paid, since estimates are not a valid deduction.
What to do with the number
If the landed figure is meaningfully above the PO price and your system still carries the PO price as the item cost, your margin reports are overstated by that gap on every sale. The fix is to get freight, duty, and fees allocated onto the products inside the system so pricing decisions run on the real number. That is accounting work as much as systems work, and it sits where I have spent a lot of my career, on theimport and logistics side and inside NetSuite. If you are new to importing, theISF 10+2 filing is the other thing that catches people.
This is a planning tool, not customs or tax advice. Duty rates, additional tariffs, and valuation rules change; confirm the rate and basis for your goods with your broker before you price off it.