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Export pricing calculator
Work out what to charge for a product in another market — from your factory cost and its weight, through duty, tax and freight, to a retail price in the local currency.
What this calculator models
Two numbers you already have — what the product costs to make and what it weighs — are enough to work forward to a shelf price in the destination currency. Four things sit in between, and they are where a spreadsheet estimate usually goes wrong: chargeable weight, duty, import tax, and the price shape local shoppers expect.
Chargeable weight is the greater of actual weight and volumetric weight. A light product in a large box ships as though it were heavy, which is why the box dimensions change the answer even when the product does not.
De minimis decides whether duty applies at all. Below the threshold a parcel clears duty-free; above it, duty applies to the whole customs value rather than to the excess. We take customs value as goods plus freight, even where a market assesses on goods alone, so the figure errs against you rather than flattering the margin.
Import tax behaves differently again. In most markets VAT or GST is charged at import and recovered later if you are registered, which makes it a cash-flow cost rather than a margin cost. The United States is the exception — no federal VAT, and sales tax is added at checkout rather than carried by you.
Pick a market below for its duty rates by product category, its current threshold, and a worked example.