US Landed Cost Calculator
The full cost of an import landed in the US — goods, freight, duty at your rate, MPF, HMF and insurance, totalled and per unit.
Landed cost is the number a selling price has to beat: everything it cost to get one unit of a product into your warehouse in the United States, not just what the supplier invoiced. This calculator adds the pieces in the order a US import entry actually charges them — the goods (customs) value, international freight, duty at the rate you enter, the Merchandise Processing Fee, the Harbor Maintenance Fee on ocean cargo, insurance, and any other charges you add — and reports both the shipment total and the per-unit figure your pricing decisions need.
Enter the shipment’s figures. Duty uses the rate you type; MPF and HMF are calculated from the published CBP schedules and shown as their own lines.
Estimate only — this result is an estimation aid, not customs, tax or legal advice, and it does not constitute a customs entry, a classification ruling or a tax filing. The duty rate is the one you entered; confirm classification, valuation and any additional duties with a licensed customs broker before you rely on the total. MPF figures: FY2027 CBP schedule, effective October 1, 2026. Last verified: November 2026.
Quick answers
How do you calculate landed cost for a US import?
Landed cost = goods value + international freight + duty (goods value × your duty rate) + Merchandise Processing Fee + Harbor Maintenance Fee on ocean cargo + insurance + any other charges. Divide the total by the number of units for the per-unit landed cost. On a $5,000 shipment with $800 freight, 10% duty, $50 insurance and ocean transport, the total is $6,390.83 — $12.78 a unit at 500 units.
The fees are the part most rough estimates get wrong: MPF is charged on the goods value alone (not on value plus freight), and its FY2027 minimum and maximum mean the bare 0.3464% rate is wrong at both ends of the value range. This page applies the clamps and shows every line, so you can see which fee produced which amount.
What is the difference between landed cost and the supplier price?
The supplier price is only the first line. Landed cost adds everything between the factory and your shelf: freight, duty, customs fees, insurance and handling. A product bought at $10.00 a unit commonly lands at $12–$15 a unit once those lines are in — pricing off the supplier price alone prices off the smaller number.
That gap is why this calculator reports the per-unit figure as prominently as the shipment total. Marketplace fees and domestic shipping come after landed cost, not inside it — keep the layers separate or the margin maths stops meaning anything.
Does landed cost include MPF and HMF?
Yes — both are real per-entry costs of importing into the US, so both belong in a landed-cost total. MPF (FY2027 formal entries: 0.3464% of goods value, minimum $34.58, maximum $670.86) applies to entries of all transport modes; HMF (0.125% of cargo value, no minimum or maximum) applies only when the cargo arrives by ocean vessel.
Leave them out and a small shipment is understated by a wide margin: on a $3,000 ocean entry the $34.58 MPF minimum alone is over 1.1% of the goods value, before duty or freight. This page flags whenever the MPF minimum or maximum, rather than the percentage, set your fee.
How to use
- Enter the goods (customs) value of the shipment in USD and, if you want the per-unit figure, the number of units it contains.
- Add the international freight and insurance amounts for the shipment, plus any other charges (broker, port, exam) in the Other charges field.
- Enter your duty rate as a percentage — from your broker or entry summary; this page does not classify goods, so it never guesses a rate.
- Choose the entry type (formal is the default; the informal flat MPF fees are the other options) and whether the cargo arrives by ocean vessel, which is what triggers the Harbor Maintenance Fee.
- Read the itemised breakdown: every line, the shipment total, and the per-unit landed cost. Check the note under the MPF line — it tells you whether the percentage, the minimum or the maximum produced the fee.
About this tool
The two CBP fees are calculated exactly as on this site’s Merchandise Processing Fee Calculator, from the same FY2027 schedule, so the two pages can never disagree. MPF on a formal entry is 0.3464% of the entered (goods) value — not of the freight-inclusive total — clamped to a minimum of $34.58 and a maximum of $670.86 per entry. Those clamps matter: below about $9,983 of goods value the minimum silently raises your effective rate, and above about $193,666 the cap means extra value adds no MPF at all. The two boundary cases are worked in full in the examples below. Informal entries instead pay one of the FY2027 flat fees ($2.77 automated, $8.30 manual, $12.45 manual prepared by CBP), selectable in the calculator.
Duty is deliberately the one number this page will not give you. A duty rate comes from your product’s tariff classification, its country of origin and any trade programme or additional duty that applies — getting it wrong by a few points moves the landed cost more than every fee on this page combined. Enter the rate from your broker, your entry summary or your own classification work; the calculator applies it to the goods value and shows the amount as its own line, so you can test how sensitive your margin is to the rate before you commit to an order.
The Harbor Maintenance Fee is separate and narrower: 0.125% of the cargo value, charged only on cargo arriving by ocean vessel, with no minimum and no maximum. Select air or land transport and this page charges no HMF. Insurance and the “other charges” line are yours to fill — broker fees, port or exam charges and drayage belong there if you want them in the per-unit figure.
Everything runs in your browser. The values you enter are business data: they are never uploaded, sent to a server, stored, or written into the page’s URL, so a copied link can never carry them.
How it works
Duty = goods value × duty rate (the rate you enter). Merchandise Processing Fee, formal entry = goods value × 0.3464%, then clamped to the FY2027 minimum of $34.58 and maximum of $670.86 per entry; informal entries pay the FY2027 flat fee for the mode selected ($2.77 / $8.30 / $12.45). Harbor Maintenance Fee = goods value × 0.125%, ocean arrivals only, with no minimum and no maximum. Each fee is rounded to cents before it enters the total.
Total landed cost = goods value + international freight + duty + MPF + HMF + insurance + other charges. Per-unit landed cost = total landed cost ÷ units. MPF and HMF are calculated on the goods (customs) value only — duty, freight and insurance are not part of their base — matching how CBP assesses them and how this site’s MPF Calculator calculates them.
Worked examples
MPF minimum binds — $5,000 of goods, 500 units, ocean: Goods $5,000 + freight $800 + duty at 10% ($500.00) + insurance $50. MPF: $5,000 × 0.3464% = $17.32, below the FY2027 minimum, so the fee is $34.58. HMF: $5,000 × 0.125% = $6.25. Total landed cost $6,390.83, which is $12.78 per unit. (These are the calculator’s default inputs, so the live page shows exactly this case.)
MPF maximum binds — $300,000 of goods, 10,000 units, ocean: Goods $300,000 + freight $12,000 + duty at 5% ($15,000.00) + insurance $600. MPF: $300,000 × 0.3464% = $1,039.20, above the FY2027 maximum, so the fee is $670.86. HMF: $300,000 × 0.125% = $375.00. Total landed cost $328,645.86, which is $32.86 per unit.
Mid range, no clamp — $10,000 of goods, 1,000 units, ocean: Goods $10,000 + freight $950 + duty at 7.5% ($750.00) + insurance $75 + other charges $120. MPF: $10,000 × 0.3464% = $34.64, between the floor and the cap, so $34.64 stands. HMF: $12.50. Total landed cost $11,942.14, which is $11.94 per unit.
Rates and sources used on this page
| Item | Figure used | Source / note |
|---|---|---|
| MPF, formal entry | 0.3464% of goods value, min $34.58, max $670.86 per entry | CBP FY2027 schedule, effective October 1, 2026 (CBP Dec. 26-14, Federal Register 91 FR 48398) |
| MPF, informal entry | $2.77 automated / $8.30 manual / $12.45 manual prepared by CBP | Same FY2027 schedule |
| Harbor Maintenance Fee | 0.125% of cargo value, no min / max, ocean arrivals only | 19 CFR 24.24 |
| Duty | Your rate, applied to the goods value | Not looked up or advised on this page — classification is yours or your broker’s |
Sources: US Customs and Border Protection, FY2027 user-fee schedule (CBP Dec. 26-14) and 19 CFR 24.24. Last verified: November 2026. CBP adjusts the MPF dollar amounts every fiscal year (each October 1); this page is re-checked against the new schedule when it is published.
Frequently asked questions
Is this landed cost calculator customs or tax advice?
No. It is an estimation aid that adds up the lines you enter plus the published CBP fee schedules. It does not classify goods, determine origin, value goods for customs, or advise on taxes, and it is not a substitute for a licensed customs broker. Figures on your entry summary (CBP Form 7501) govern what you actually pay.
Why does the calculator ask me for the duty rate instead of looking it up?
Because a duty rate is a classification decision, not a lookup this page can safely make. The rate depends on the product’s HTS classification, country of origin, and any additional duties or trade programmes in force. A wrong built-in rate would look authoritative and quietly wreck the estimate; your broker or your last entry summary is the right source.
Are the MPF figures here the same as on the MPF Calculator page?
Yes — deliberately. Both pages use the one FY2027 CBP schedule: formal entries 0.3464% of entered value, minimum $34.58, maximum $670.86 per entry, effective October 1, 2026 (CBP Dec. 26-14), and the same informal flat fees. If the two pages ever showed different MPF for the same value, that would be a bug — the shared schedule is the control against it.
When is the Harbor Maintenance Fee charged?
Only on cargo arriving at a US port by ocean vessel, at 0.125% of the cargo value, with no minimum and no maximum. Air and land arrivals do not pay it, which is why the transport choice in the calculator switches the HMF line on and off.
What belongs in “other charges”?
Any per-shipment cost you want inside the per-unit figure that is not already a line: customs broker fees, single-transaction or bond costs you allocate to this entry, port, exam, drayage or warehousing charges for this shipment. Leave it at zero if you track those elsewhere — just be consistent between the shipments you compare.
What happens to the values I type?
They are used for the arithmetic on this page and nothing else: not sent to any server, not stored in your browser, and never written into the page’s URL (in the query string or after the #), so a copied link or a server log can never carry them. Close or refresh the page and they are gone.
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