Compare what the product really costs at your door
A supplier's unit price is the first line of the cost, not the last. Landed cost adds everything between the factory and your warehouse — transport, insurance, duties, fees, inspection, handling. Comparing origins means comparing these totals on the same structure.
What sits between the factory price and your warehouse
Landed cost is built from five groups of components: product, transport to the US, US entry, delivery to the facility, and financial costs. Together they give the landed cost at your facility. The diagram does not show the relative size of each group.
unit price & Incoterm · packaging & labeling · testing & certification · inspection
origin inland & export clearance · ocean or air freight · insurance
duties & trade measures · MPF · HMF (ocean) · broker, bond, ISF
port & terminal · drayage & inland · storage
payment terms · currency
Blocks are shown at equal size; they do not represent the weight of each component.
PRODUCT
- Unit price and the Incoterm it is quoted on
- Packaging and labeling for the US market
- Testing and certification required for sale in the US
- Pre-shipment inspection
TRANSPORT TO THE US
- Inland transport and export clearance at origin (depending on Incoterm)
- Ocean or air freight
- Cargo insurance
US ENTRY
- Duties: base duty, plus any additional measures or antidumping/countervailing duties that apply to the product and origin
- Merchandise Processing Fee and, for ocean shipments, Harbor Maintenance Fee
- Customs broker fees, customs bond, and Importer Security Filing for ocean shipments
DELIVERY
- Port and terminal charges
- Drayage and inland transport to your facility
- Storage where applicable
FINANCIAL
- Payment terms and their cost
- Currency exposure
How we compare
Same structure for every option. Each origin is costed on the same list of components and the same Incoterm basis, delivered to the same point.
Sources stated. Each line indicates whether it comes from a supplier quote, a forwarder quote, a published rate or an assumption.
Duty treatment flagged. Duty lines rely on the classification proposed for the product and are confirmed by a licensed customs broker before any decision.
Sensitivity shown. Where a component is uncertain — freight, duty treatment, exchange rate — we show which way it moves the comparison.
No promised savings. The result can confirm, qualify or reject an alternative; it is presented as such.
| Component | Current origin | Alternative A | Alternative B |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unit price (Incoterm stated) | supplier quote | supplier quote | supplier quote |
| Freight & insurance | forwarder quote | forwarder quote | forwarder quote |
| Duties and trade measures | per confirmed classification | per confirmed classification | per confirmed classification |
| Entry fees & brokerage | standard schedule | standard schedule | standard schedule |
| Delivery to facility | quote | quote | quote |
| Compliance & inspection | known | to confirm | to confirm |
| Landed cost per unit | total | total | total |
| Open assumptions | — | listed | listed |
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