Pick a product, enter your shipment value and origin, and see freight, insurance and duty added up to a landed cost — scaled from what U.S. importers of that product paid in the latest Census month.
Try a product to estimate its landed cost
The landed cost of imported goods includes several components beyond the purchase price:
The estimator takes the latest month of Census data for the product (or for imports of it from the origin you pick): freight and insurance as a share of customs value, and the average duty rate. It applies both to your shipment value. The Tariff Rate Lookup provides more detail on duty rates.
It scales one month of real Census Bureau data — the average freight-and-insurance share and the average duty rate for the product, from the origin you choose — to your shipment value. Your real cost depends on your trade terms, valuation, preference claims and exact classification, so treat it as a data-driven starting point, not a quote.
CIF stands for Cost, Insurance, and Freight. It represents the total value of goods including the purchase price plus insurance and freight charges to the U.S. port. The difference between CIF value and customs value (FOB) gives you the insurance and freight component.