Guides · Updated 17 Oct 2026
Guides
Short, honest answers to the money questions when you import from China: duty, tax, landed cost — and finding the supplier behind a listing.
The $800 de minimis is gone
What the suspension changed, what every parcel from China now owes, and the duty bands by product class. Read →
The real landed-cost recipe
Item + freight + duty + tax — the four lines, the compounding rules for Canada, and the mistakes that keep showing up. Read →
Canada: duty, GST/HST/PST
De minimis that still exists (and its low courier/postal thresholds), duty by class, and tax by province — with a worked Ontario example. Read →
Find the factory behind a listing
Four moves that pull back the middleman curtain, the five questions to ask, and where honest sourcing stops. Read →
Who these are for
Sellers, stores and importers who buy goods from China and price them for the US or Canadian market — plus the developers wiring those numbers into their own stores. Every guide answers one money question, with the estimate boundary stated plainly.
Check your own numbers before you buy
Run any product through the tool and see the all-in delivered cost — item, live freight, duty and import tax — for the US or your Canadian province. Ten lookups are free every month; no card, no account.
Duty figures here are estimates with an accuracy promise, not a customs ruling. Rates and trade remedies are in flux — every number our tool shows carries a confidence band and an as-of date. See the sample report for exactly what you get.