Landed cost calculator for clothing imports from Bangladesh

The FOB price is what you pay for the goods, loaded and cleared for export at the port in Bangladesh. Landed cost is what those goods actually cost once they reach your warehouse: the FOB price plus sea or air freight, insurance, import duty, customs clearance, port charges and inland delivery. The gap between the two is often 15 to 30% for sea freight, and much more for air. That matters when you compare Bangladesh with a nearshore supplier, because a higher FOB price with lower freight and duty can beat a lower FOB price. It also matters for pricing: retail margins built on an FOB number rather than a landed number tend to disappear the first time duty and freight land on the same invoice. Ask any supplier to quote FOB and DDP side by side.

It depends on the country, and it changes the number more than people expect. The EU and UK use a CIF basis, meaning duty is calculated on the goods value plus the cost of freight and insurance to the border, so expensive freight increases the duty bill even when the rate stays the same. Several other countries, including the United States, generally assess duty on the goods value alone, with freight excluded. This calculator uses the CIF method, which is the more conservative of the two, and it shows the duty line separately so you can see the effect. When the amounts are large enough to matter, ask your customs broker which valuation basis applies to your product and destination, and whether any additional tariffs apply on top of the normal rate.

It is as accurate as the figures you put into it. The arithmetic is simple and correct, but three inputs move the result: the freight quote, which changes with season, route and container fill; the duty rate, which depends on your exact product code and any additional tariffs in force; and clearance costs, which vary by broker and port. Use it to test scenarios rather than to sign contracts: what happens to your margin if freight doubles, or if duty returns to 12% in the EU after preferences end. For a firm number, ask your freight forwarder for a rate on your actual volume and your customs broker for the duty rate on your HTS codes, then run those figures here. We can also quote DDP, which converts all of it into one price per piece.