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How To estimate the total cost of shipment? Product Knowledge
How To estimate the total cost of shipment?
In order to help our customers get an estimated calculation of the total cost. BORTE service department would like to share the import knowledge as below:
Your total cost will consists of the following five parts:
A: Total value on FOB term
B: Shipping Cost( Customers can get a quote of the shipping cost from their freight forwarder/agent or BORTE will offer you a quotation based on the price term C&F/CIF destination port )
C: Insurance Cost( Customers can get a quote of the insurance cost from their freight forwarder/agent or BORTE will offer you a quotation based on the price term CIF destination port)
D:Import Duties and Taxes ( You can calculate your import duties&taxes from our partner DutyCalculator.com )
*Duty Calculator Notes: (1) All Duty Calculator information provided by DutyCalculator.com who provide 5 times free duty calculation per month . (2) Only 76 listed countries are available to the import duty calculation. (3) If there are no Shipping & Insurance Costs, enter 0 in that field. (4) You can get the HS codes from BORTE's service specialists.
E: Additional handling fee such as the import custom clearance fee, import handling fee, inland transporation fee etc. You can confirm these fees with your freight forwarder/agent.
Now you can calulate the total cost by adding A+B+C+D+E. If you have any more questions about the estimation of the total cost, please contact your service specialist .