DDP shipping calculator
Two numbers decide what a DDP shipment costs, and most quotes show neither. The first is the weight you are actually billed for, which is not always the weight you have. The second is how much of the price is duty — money the carrier pays to customs on your behalf and earns nothing on.
This works both out, and shows how it got there.
Your cargo
Carton dimensions and the weight of one carton.
A quote you already have
Optional. Paste a DDP price and the duty line inside it to see what you are really paying for.
We never guess the duty. Estimating it from a product category would produce a confident number with nothing behind it, and a wrong duty is the one error in a DDP quote that costs real money. Your customs broker or the quote itself has the figure.
Does DDP include tariffs?
Yes. DDP — Delivered Duty Paid — means the carrier clears customs and pays the duty before the goods reach you. That is the point of the term, and it is why a DDP quote looks so much larger than a freight-only one.
What the term does not tell you is the split. Put a real quote into the panel above and you will usually find the tax is the larger half. That matters when you compare offers: two quotes can differ entirely because one estimated duty generously, while the transport underneath them is priced the same. Comparing totals hides that. Comparing the transport-and-customs line does not.
It is also why our commission is charged on the transport and customs work rather than on the total. A percentage of a DDP price is partly a percentage of your tax bill, which would mean charging more for the same work simply because the goods were dutiable.
Why is my billed weight higher than my actual weight?
Because carriers sell space as well as mass. Every mode has a volumetric divisor, and the shipment is billed on whichever is greater: real weight, or volume converted to weight through that divisor. Light bulky cargo is billed on the volume it occupies. The panel above shows both figures, the divisor it used, and which one won — so the number you are charged is one you can reproduce.
Stop estimating and get real offers
An estimate tells you what a shipment should cost. A reverse auction tells you what carriers will actually take for it. Post a shipment, let pre-qualified carriers bid against each other, and pick the offer you want — you pay nothing to do it, and you are never obliged to accept.