Shipping Tools and Calculators
Free calculators and lookups built on the same figures we publish on our 23 route pages: estimate duty and landed cost into 23 markets, look up transit times by mode, and work out chargeable weight before you ask for a price.
Four free tools for the questions buyers ask before they request a price: what will it cost to land, how long will it take, what am I billed for, and what does the official tariff say about my product group. Every figure is traceable to a route page or a published government schedule.
Four tools, one data set
Each tool answers a question buyers ask before they ask for a price — what will it cost to land, how long will it take, what am I actually billed for, and what does the official tariff say about my product group. Every figure traces back to a route page or a published schedule you can check, and the tool and its source are rendered from the same data, so they cannot drift apart.
Import Duty & Landed Cost Calculator
Enter the goods value and freight, choose the destination, and see the duty, import tax, levies and total landed cost broken out line by line. Every rate links back to the route page it came from.
Open the tool →ToolChina Shipping Transit Time Lookup
Choose a destination and a transport mode to see the transit range we publish for that lane, whether it comes from a carrier schedule or a forwarder table, and which lanes can only be quoted per shipment.
Open the tool →ToolChargeable Weight & CBM Calculator
Enter the pieces, dimensions and gross weight to see the volumetric weight per mode, which figure the carrier will bill, and whether the cargo is better priced as LCL or FCL.
Open the tool →ReferenceHS Chapter Duty Rate Lookup
Pick a market and a two-digit HS chapter to see the screening range reduced from the official tariff schedule, with the schedule name, revision number and retrieval date behind it. A chapter range narrows the question; the rate for a shipment is assessed line by line against the commodity code.
Open the tool →What the tools cover
The tools divide the pre-purchase questions cleanly. Duty and landed cost is a customs question; transit time is a schedule question; chargeable weight is a billing question; and the HS chapter lookup is a classification question. Keeping them separate means each answer is sourced and checkable rather than a single blended guess.
- Landed cost — duty, import tax and country-specific levies on top of the goods and freight value.
- Transit time — ocean FCL, ocean LCL, air and express ranges per destination, and which lanes can only be quoted per shipment.
- Chargeable weight — volumetric weight for air and express, W/M for ocean LCL, and an LCL-versus-FCL indication.
- HS chapter duty — the official ad-valorem range per HS chapter, with duty-free and specific-duty lines counted separately.
What the tools deliberately do not do
None of these tools publishes a freight rate. Rates depend on the sailing, the equipment, the season and the commodity, and a number published out of context helps nobody. The tools quantify the parts that are genuinely public — duty, tax, transit and billable weight — and leave the price to a quotation.
They also do not mirror a carrier's live schedule. Transit ranges are the ones we publish on our route pages, with the carrier or forwarder source named and confirmed at booking.
How do you go from an estimate to a quotation?
Every tool ends by carrying your inputs into the quotation form, so the details you already entered are not asked for twice. If the estimate raises a question — a tariff line you are unsure of, a certificate of origin you may not qualify for, or cargo that sits in the middle of the LCL and FCL decision band — that is exactly what our team is for.
Questions about the tools
Are these tools free, and do I need an account?
Free and no account. Nothing is gated and nothing is emailed to you before you can see a result.
Is the result a quotation?
No. It is an estimate built from published duty rates, published transit ranges and standard chargeable-weight formulas. A firm quotation depends on the commodity, the HS code, the packing list and the sailing confirmed at booking.
Why does a lane show "Confirmed per shipment" instead of a number?
Because we only publish a range when a carrier or a forwarder actually publishes one for that lane. Where no such figure exists — express courier on most lanes, for example — we would rather say so than print a number we cannot source.
Can I use the figures on my own site or in a report?
Check them against the destination tariff first, and credit the source where you quote them. Every route page names where its figures come from and when they were reviewed.