Most import cost advice stops at the factory price. These do not. Each worked example takes one product category and follows the money all the way to a unit sitting in a warehouse — with every coefficient on the page, so you can substitute your own numbers and see what changes.
What these are
Each example aggregates current wholesale prices for a category, applies a real carton specification and a real tariff classification, and costs the result through export packing, freight, duty, import fees and delivery. Every rate has a source and a date.
The point is not the final number — your product will differ. The point is which line dominates, because that is what tells you where to spend your attention. In both examples below the answer is the opposite of what most buyers assume.
Why we publish the working
A figure you cannot check is worth very little. You do not know the baseline, you cannot see which assumptions were made, and you have no way to tell whether it applies to your product at all. Publishing the arithmetic means you can disagree with us in specifics — and if our freight assumption is wrong for your case, you can see exactly which line to change.
These are our own costings rather than client engagements, which is precisely why every input is on the page.
How to use them
- Find the dominant line. If freight is a quarter of your landed cost, carton design beats price negotiation. If duty is a quarter, classification beats both.
- Check our assumptions against yours. Volume, weight, order quantity and destination are all stated. Substitute your own and the arithmetic still holds.
- Do not treat the totals as quotations. They are aggregated estimates. Use them to judge whether a product is worth pursuing, then get quoted properly.
