Liberia · housewares container
US$27,579
A CIF value of US$20,580 becomes roughly US$27,579 landed once duty, the ECOWAS Trade Levy, 13% GST and clearing costs are added — about 53% above the supplier invoice.
Global import profitability platform
Will this import make money? Landed cost and profit, before you buy.
Build the true cost for any destination, compare it with the local market price, and see the profit—or loss—before you place the order.
No sign-up needed Adaptable to any jurisdiction
SHIPMENT TC-1042LANDED COST
Total shipmentUS$18,462.50
Units480
Cost / unitUS$38.46
Target priceUS$54.95
Profit / unitUS$16.49
GoodsFreightDutyOther
Import cost guides
Understand the rules behind the estimate.
The calculator works for any destination. These guides show the method, with two country examples.
Global methodHow to calculate landed cost and profit anywhereLearn the complete method →Country exampleLiberia: duty, ETL, 13% GST and clearing costsView Liberia calculation guide →By destinationCountry guides: Liberia, South Africa, Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, Sierra Leone, Côte d'IvoireBrowse all country guides →Guides hubCIF, tax bases, HS codes, freight allocation and exciseSee the full learning path →
Free import profitability planner
Build the numbers for your market.
Start with the global setup and enter the rules for your destination, or load a country preset as a starting point.
How to use this calculator
- 1. Choose your destination and load a preset, or name any jurisdiction and enter the rules yourself.
- 2. Enter the product and shipment costs — total supplier cost, units, international freight and insurance. Together those give CIF, the delivered-to-port value customs starts from.
- 3. Enter duty, tax, excise or levies and other costs such as clearing, handling and trucking, confirmed against your destination’s tariff.
- 4. Add your local selling price and review the landed cost, profit and margin.
This calculator estimates one product in one shipment and does not save your figures — reloading the page clears them. How the calculation works · Multi-product shipments in TrueCost Pro
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Product and shipment details
Purchase cost + international freight + insurance = CIF, the starting value used by customs.
Name any jurisdiction — the rules below stay fully editable.
Units you will actually sell from this shipment.
USD
Total cost of the whole product line, not the price of one unit.
USD
What the forwarder charges to move the goods to your port or airport.
USD
Cargo insurance premium for this shipment. Enter 0 if uninsured.
2–10 digits. Dots and spaces are fine.
HS 2022 international description
Enter at least 2 digits to look the code up in the HS 2022 nomenclature.
National 8–10 digit wording varies by customs jurisdiction. Copy the exact line your destination authority publishes.
Your destination customs source — separate from the UN HS reference.
The first six digits of an HS code are internationally harmonised. Longer 8–10 digit codes, duty rates, origin treatment, rebates and exemptions are set by the destination country. TrueCost only pre-fills a duty rate where a published tariff table for your destination has been loaded, and always shows the edition it came from — confirm the tariff line, its source and the date you verified it before pricing.
All figures use one currency.
kg
Needed only for weight-based excise.
litres
Needed only for volume-based excise.
- Start with the global setup and enter the rules for your destination: duty base, tax base, tax rate and any levies.
- The global pattern is duty on CIF, then tax on customs value + duty + included levies — adjust every element to match your country.
- Confirm the tax base and every rate against your destination's official tariff before committing to a price.
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Duty, VAT / GST and customs rules
Every rate is editable. Nothing is assumed from the HS code.
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South Africa uses 10%. Set 0 where no uplift applies.
Leave off unless your destination explicitly taxes these.
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Excise and government levies
Excise and government levies
Add as many rules as you need — percentage, specific (per item, kg, ton, litre or gallon) or fixed, each with optional minimum and maximum.
No excise or levy rules yet. Add as many as the destination requires — combined excise is simply more than one rule.
04
Clearing, delivery and other costs
Editable cost lines
Clearing, broker, terminal, documentation, banking and inland delivery.
USD
USD
USD
USD
USD
Total commercial costs: $0.00
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Local market and profit test
USD
USD
Commission, packaging, local delivery.
%
Illustrative worked examples
How the numbers work in practice.
These are worked examples from our country guides, not customer results. Cardinal Toolworks is new and publishes no testimonials, case studies or client figures.
South Africa · added tax value
R90,000
A customs value of R500,000 with R50,000 duty gives an added tax value of R600,000 after the 10% uplift, so VAT is R90,000 — not the R75,000 you get by taxing the customs value.
Inspect it before you buy
Look at the working product, not a promise.
Both are open to anyone, with no sign-in. The figures in them are illustrative, not customer data.
Read-only demo workspace
Open TrueCost Pro and click around
The real Pro workspace, filled with an illustrative container of three products: allocation, per-product landed cost, comparison, reconciliation and scenarios. Nothing is saved.
Sample report
See exactly what a project prints
The full per-product working and shipment totals, in the same layout you would print to PDF or hand to a partner or a bank.
For repeat import decisions
Move beyond one product and one estimate.
TrueCost Pro keeps every Free feature, then adds the workspace needed for repeat and multi-product decisions.
- Cost several products in one shipment
- Compare suppliers and shipping options
- Test exchange-rate and freight increases
- Reconcile estimates with final invoices
- Save projects and export decision reports
Launch edition · one-time purchase
TrueCost Pro
Multi-product costing, shared-cost allocation, scenarios, reconciliation and reports in one saved workspace.
US$29launch price
See TrueCost Pro How it works
From supplier quote to a go—or no-go—decision.
Describe the opportunity
Enter the destination, origin, product value, freight and expected selling price.
Tailor the jurisdiction
Add the current duties, taxes, levies and local costs that apply to your shipment.
Make the decision
See break-even price, projected profit, margin and the selling price needed for your target.