What your order actually costs delivered

Landed cost is what a garment costs by the time it is sitting in your warehouse, rather than what the factory charges to put it on a vessel. An FOB price covers materials, manufacturing, packing, export clearance and loading at the origin port — and stops there. Everything after that is yours: ocean or air freight, insurance, import duty, customs clearance, third-party inspection and any lab testing your retailer or your market's law requires. For a first order from Bangladesh, expect those additions to put landed cost roughly 25 to 40 percent above the FOB figure — more for the US, where duty alone is currently about 26.5 percent on a cotton T-shirt. Brands that price a range off the factory number alone discover the gap after the goods have already shipped, which is the worst possible moment to find it.

Because customs authorities value goods differently, and it materially changes the number. The United States assesses duty on transaction value, which for an FOB purchase is the price you paid the factory and excludes international freight. The EU and UK assess on CIF — cost, insurance and freight — so the freight you pay to get goods to the border is itself part of the value being taxed. On the same order at the same duty rate, the EU therefore charges duty on a larger base. A calculator that ignores this overstates US duty and understates EU duty, so this one models the two bases explicitly rather than averaging them into a single wrong answer.

Treat it as a starting point, not an answer. Duty is set by the HS classification of your specific product, and two garments that look similar can sit under different headings with meaningfully different rates. The prefilled figures come from the per-market research published on this site — 0% for the EU, UK, Canada and Australia, where qualifying Bangladesh-made clothing enters duty-free under each market's preference scheme, and 26.5% for the US, which is the 16.5% general duty on a knitted cotton T-shirt plus the 10% Section 301 tariff on goods of Bangladesh in force since 24 July 2026. Other US codes run up to 32% before that 10%, and the additional layer has changed several times since 2025. Get your HS code confirmed by a licensed customs broker and type their rate into the field.

Ask a freight forwarder before you rely on any estimate, because the number moves with route, season, container utilisation and fuel. What is worth knowing while you wait: sea is the economical choice and air runs roughly 8 to 12 times more per kilo, which makes air a rescue tool for a late order rather than a plan you budget around. If you are sanity-checking a scenario before you have a quote, the more useful test is the uplift percentage at the bottom of the result — if your total lands outside the 25 to 40 percent band, something in your assumptions is probably wrong, and freight is the most common culprit. US-bound orders are the exception, because duty alone takes them past it.

Not on every order, but you want it on a first order with a new supplier, and the cost is small against what it prevents. Independent inspection runs about $250 to $400 per man-day, and a single day is usually enough for a straightforward bulk run. Set it to zero here if your arrangement genuinely does not include it — but be clear that you are choosing to ship unverified goods rather than saving money, because the alternative to catching a defect at the factory is catching it after it has been freighted, cleared and put away. We inspect at AQL 1.5 or 2.5 on our own orders regardless of whether a buyer also sends someone.