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Estimate customs duty and import VAT on goods from China — for the EU, UK, Kazakhstan, Russia, the EAEU and Central Asia. Duty rates are category-level estimates: your exact rate depends on the 10-digit HS code, so always verify before you commit (official lookup links below). For the full per-unit cost including freight and clearance fees, use the landed cost calculator.
2026 rate changes are built in
From 1 January 2026: Kazakhstan raised standard VAT from 12% to 16%, and Russia raised VAT from 20% to 22%. If your old cost sheets still use the previous rates, your margins are off.
1 · Where are you importing to?
VAT rate fills in automatically — you can override it in Fine-tune.
2 · What are you importing?
Auto-suggested for your category — edit if you know your exact rate.
Follows the destination — override for special regimes.
3 · Shipment value (USD)
EU, UK and EAEU all assess duty on the CIF value — goods plus freight and insurance, not the invoice alone. Not sure about freight? Estimate it with the shipping planner.
Applies mostly to EU imports of specific Chinese products (tiles, fasteners, tyres, some steel, e-bikes…). It stacks on top of the standard duty. We never guess this number for you — look up your exact code and exporter in TARIC, then enter it here.
Taxes due at the border
$0
— of customs value
If you import VAT-registered, the VAT part is normally reclaimable — your real sunk cost is the duty.
Verify your exact rate (official sources)
Next step: get the full per-unit cost with the landed cost calculator, pick the right trade term with the Incoterms selector — or ask us to manage the China side at zero markup.
Quick Answers
Duty = customs value × duty rate. In the EU, UK and EAEU the customs value is CIF — goods price plus international freight and insurance to the border. The duty rate comes from your product's HS code: the first 6 digits are international, but the rate is set at 8–10 digits and differs per destination. VAT is then charged on top of (customs value + duty), not on the goods price alone.
From 1 January 2026, Kazakhstan's new Tax Code raised standard VAT from 12% to 16%, and Russia raised VAT from 20% to 22%. Both apply to imports at customs clearance. On a $50,000 machinery shipment to Kazakhstan that is roughly $2,000 more VAT at the border than 2025 — budget for it, even if your business can later offset the VAT.
Usually yes — if the import is cleared in your company's name and you are VAT-registered, import VAT is deductible like any input VAT. That is exactly why grey "DDP all-in" offers are dangerous: if a Chinese shipper clears the goods under someone else's number, the VAT was never yours to reclaim. Duty, by contrast, is a real cost — nobody refunds it.
Anti-dumping duties are extra tariffs on specific products from specific countries, stacked on top of the standard duty. The EU currently keeps measures on well over a hundred Chinese product groups — ceramic tiles (13.9–69.7%), truck tyres (per-unit), fasteners, several steel and aluminium products, e-bikes and more. Where a normal duty is 0–6%, an anti-dumping measure can add 30–80%+, which kills the business case. Always check TARIC by 10-digit code and exporter before paying a deposit.
Both the EU and the EAEU deliberately keep tariffs low on capital equipment — the EAEU alone holds around 1,900 tariff lines at zero, much of it machinery, and most EU machinery chapters sit at 0–3%. Governments want their industries to modernise cheaply. The real border cost on machinery is therefore the VAT (16% Kazakhstan, 22% Russia, 19–27% EU) — recoverable for VAT-registered importers, but it must be financed at clearance.
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