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Landed cost calculator for imports into India

Independent site, not a government service. General information, not customs advice.

Bring your customs value and duty from the calculator, add what you pay around them, and see what each unit really costs you in your warehouse.

Landed cost per unit

Landed cost per unit

₹695

Total for the shipment₹6,94,900
Added on top of the value39.0%

Costs are your own figures. Whether IGST can be credited depends on your GST position.

Work out the duty first →

Landed cost is what a product costs once it stands in your warehouse: the price paid to the supplier, the freight and insurance to India, customs duty and IGST, and the local charges of the port, the customs broker and the truck. It differs from customs value in two ways. Customs value stops at the place of importation, whereas your costs continue inland. And customs value is the base for tax, while landed cost is the base for your selling price. A trader registered for GST can usually treat the IGST paid at import as an input credit, so that IGST affects cash flow more than final cost, while somebody buying for personal use bears it in full. The tool here keeps this visible with a separate line for the credit. Port and broker figures are your own quotes, since no official tariff exists.

Demurrage or detention bill

Charge

₹35,000

Chargeable days7
Rate per day₹5,000

The rate is an example: no official tariff exists for it. Carriers publish their own, often rising in slabs.

See how the full cost builds up →

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A worked shape, line by line

Take goods with a customs value of ₹5,00,000 at 10% Basic Customs Duty, 10% surcharge and 18% IGST. Duty comes to ₹50,000, surcharge ₹5,000, and IGST 18% of ₹5,55,000, or ₹99,900: ₹1,54,900 at the port. These are the defaults above. With ₹40,000 of local charges on 1,000 units, each unit lands at about ₹695 before any credit. If you can credit the IGST, type ₹99,900 in the last field and the figure falls to about ₹595.

Costs people forget

  • Bank charges and foreign exchange margin on the supplier payment, which do not appear on the invoice.
  • Testing, labelling and any certificate your product must carry before it can be sold in India.
  • Container detention if unpacking runs past the free days. The tool below this block works that out on your contract's own rate.
  • Interest on duty paid late, and any charge for late filing of the bill of entry.

Why the figure is only as good as the inputs

Nothing on this page is a quote. There is no public schedule of broker fees or of container freight station charges, so we show no market average for them: any figure we printed would be a guess. Ask two brokers for a written quote on the same shipment, and compare line by line. The duty side is firmer, but it also rests on the rate you enter, and only the assessment on your bill of entry fixes it.

Questions people ask

What goes into landed cost that does not go into customs value?

Costs after the place of importation: the customs broker fee, container freight station charges, inland haulage to your warehouse, and later finance or storage. Demurrage on a container is a carrier or terminal charge you take on later. These raise your own cost per unit, but they generally sit outside the value used to work out duty.

Should IGST paid at import count in my landed cost?

It depends on whether you can recover it. A business that can take it as input tax credit under GST usually treats it as a cash timing cost and leaves it out of unit cost. A person importing for private use cannot. Enter the amount you can credit in the field, and ask your tax adviser if you are unsure.

How should I share out costs across different products in one container?

Duty belongs to each product by its own tariff line and value, so calculate it line by line. Freight is usually shared by volume or weight, whichever fills the container first, and local charges by value or volume. Choose one rule and keep it for every shipment, so that your margins can be compared over time.

Check next

Import duty calculator

Type an FOB value, an exchange rate and a tariff line: BCD, surcharge and IGST step by step.

Customs value (CIF) calculator

Turn an FOB price into a customs value under rule 10: freight and insurance as paid, or the 20% and 1.125% fallbacks, with the air freight cap.

Demurrage and detention

Days held beyond the free period, multiplied by your contract rate. The difference between demurrage and detention, and how to limit both.

IGST on imports

IGST is charged on customs value plus duties. Check the base and the amount, and see how much IGST falls on the duty itself.

Exchange rate for customs

Customs converts your invoice at a rate set by CBIC, not at your bank rate. Why this matters, and why our default is only an example.

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