The supplier's price is not what imported material costs. Add freight, insurance, duty, and U.S. customs fees, and see the true per-unit landed cost — the number your BOMs and quotes should be built on. Free, no signup — nothing leaves your browser.
What imported material actually costs once it clears customs — freight, duty, and fees included. That's the number that belongs in your BOM.
A duty is the tax U.S. Customs charges to import a product. The rate is a percentage of goods value, set by the product's tariff code (its HTS / harmonized code). Find your code, then enter the percentage here.
Carries the landed unit cost — not the purchase price.
Figuring true import cost by hand for every PO? Fabbric rolls freight, duty, and fees into each part's landed cost automatically — so your quotes and jobs cost from the real number, not the purchase price.
See how Fabbric works →Landed cost is what a unit of imported material actually costs by the time it's on your shelf: the supplier's price (FOB — their dock, before shipping), plus international freight, insurance, import duty, and the U.S. customs fees every formal entry pays — the Merchandise Processing Fee, the Harbor Maintenance Fee on ocean arrivals, plus broker and port charges. Costing the project at the bare purchase price give that whole stack away as margin, on every project that uses the part.
One detail trips people up: in the U.S., duty is charged on the goods value, not on freight. Customs uses the transaction value of the merchandise itself as the duty base, so a duty rate applies to what you paid the supplier — while freight and insurance still land in your cost, just untaxed. (Many other countries assess duty on CIF — goods plus freight and insurance — which is why numbers from overseas colleagues can look different.) The duty rate itself comes from the product's tariff classification: find a candidate heading with the HTS Code Finder, verify it, and confirm with a broker.
Once you have the landed number, use it everywhere the part appears: hand it straight to the Quote Estimator as the material cost, and build your assemblies on it rather than the purchase price. The difference between the two is rarely dramatic on any single line — and always dramatic across a year of projects.