Exporting
Exporting: what your buyer pays on arrival
The same tariff, read from the other side of the deal.
Every other part of this site answers the importer: here is the code, here is the duty, here is what it lands at. A seller has the same shipment in front of them and a different set of questions about it. What will my buyer be charged when it arrives, who charges them, does a small consignment escape it, do I quote a price that includes it, and what has to be written on the invoice for any of that to work.
These 7 guides answer those five questions for 10 of the 13 destinations this site prices from duty rates it holds, out of the 20 the calculator will price a shipment into. The other 3 hold too few duty rows to write a guide on. Every figure in them is read from the same tariff rows the code pages serve, and a shipment priced in a guide prices the same in the duty calculator, because both go through one function. Every rule in them is quoted from the destination's own regulation or published guidance, and where a rule could not be read the guide says so and states nothing.
The 7 guides
What each guide can and cannot source
The figures are the same everywhere: read from a published schedule, checked, dated. The RULES are not. A commercial invoice requirement is a document, and some publishers serve one to a program and some do not. This is which is which, because a reader deciding what to put on an invoice is entitled to know whether the page in front of them is quoting a regulation or declining to.
| Guide | Answers for | Codes priced | Duty | Rules quoted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| United States | United States | 89 | 0% to 32% | 2 quoted from source |
| United Kingdom | United Kingdom | 110 | 0% to 16% | 1 quoted from source |
| Germany | Germany | 106 | 0% to 17% | None: the publisher could not be read |
| Portugal | Portugal | 106 | 0% to 17% | None: the publisher could not be read |
| Canada | Canada | 106 | 0% to 18% | 1 quoted from source |
| Australia | Australia | 114 | 0% to 5% | None: the publisher could not be read |
| European Union | Spain, France, Italy, Netherlands | 92 | 0% to 17% | None: the publisher could not be read |
3 of the 7 guides quote an invoice or marking rule from the destination's own publication. 4 record a rule they could not read, with the reason on the page. Between them the guides price 723 code and destination pairs, which are the same rows the code pages serve.
What these guides are not
They are not advice on how to structure a sale, and they do not tell you which delivery term to agree. DDP and DAP are contract terms published by the International Chamber of Commerce, not customs law, and each guide says what the choice does to the charges this site prices without quoting a definition it has not read. Nothing here is a customs ruling, and the classification of your goods remains yours to get right: that decision belongs on the code pages and the chapter notes beside them.