The rate moved. What happened to your unit?
Every tariff headline ends in the same private question: what does this do to my landed cost? The news gives you a percentage. Your business runs on dollars per unit. This page does the translation on a sample SKU — paste your own stacked rates and watch the number move.
Across the 1,000-unit PO: +$840.00. Illustrative estimate on the sample bottle — not a customs entry.
Why the rate keeps moving
The 2026 climate is the most volatile duty environment small importers have ever priced against. The de minimis exemption is gone, so shipments that used to enter free are now dutiable. Rates arrive in stacked layers — a base rate plus country and product surcharges — and the layers change with the news cycle, sometimes retroactively. The same bottle can carry a very different total depending on where it ships from and when it lands.
We never invent a rate and we never guess an HTS code. Look the product up, add up the stacked total, and paste it. How to get a duty rate.
When the rate changes, reprice — don’t panic
A duty change lands on the customs value, not on your whole cost stack. Tooling, freight, and broker fees don’t move with it, which is why a headline of “+17.5 points” turned into $0.84 a unit on the bottle above, not 17.5% of the price. Sometimes the answer is a price change; sometimes it is Factory B in a different country; sometimes it is absorbing it. You can only decide from the per-unit number.