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US import cost calculator: furniture from China
Depends on your price
Every $1,000 of upholstered wood-frame sofas and chairs at the factory pays $500 in US duty (50%).Each shipment also pays about $785 to $2,735 in fixed costs (customs fee minimum, broker and bond, port warehouse, delivery), whatever its size, at the rates of November 9, 2026. Type your factory price and your US quote below to see whether importing pays.
Type your factory price and your US quote. The total and the verdict update as you type.
US duty on every $1,000 at the factory
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$500
50% of the factory price.
Plus about $785 to $2,735 per shipment, whatever its size: customs fee minimum, broker and bond, port warehouse and delivery. Ocean freight depends on volume, so it needs your CBM or quote.
A starting point, not an order. Type your factory price and your US quote and the verdict appears.
If the scheduled Section 232 increase starts on January 1, 2027, the same order pays $50 more duty on every $1,000. The rate that counts is the one on the day the goods enter the US, not the day you pay the factory (Proclamation 11000).
How this number is builtLine by line, each with its source
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Factory price (FOB)
Upholstered sofas and chairs, wood frame: $1,000. A $1,000 starting point, not a quote. FOB includes getting the goods to the port and through export.$1,000
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Duty: upholstered sofas and chairs, wood frame
Section 301 25% = $250 (checked November 9, 2026) · Section 232 25% = $250 (checked November 9, 2026). Rates of November 9, 2026, on $1,000.$500
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Merchandise Processing Fee (formal entry)
0.3464% of the factory price, minimum $34.58, maximum $670.86. Customs user fees for FY2027, Federal Register 2026-15530.$34.58
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Harbor Maintenance Fee (ocean)
0.125% of the factory price. 19 CFR 24.24.$1.25
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Ocean freight
Add the packed volume (CBM) from the packing list, or your forwarder quote, under shipping.not included
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Customs broker, ISF filing and bondestimate
Estimate. No primary source publishes broker fees. Roughly $150-$350 per entry, $35-$100 for ISF, plus a single-entry bond. Bond pricing when antidumping applies is not confirmed. Source.$250 to $700
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Destination port and warehouse (CFS) chargesestimate
Destination port, terminal handling and warehouse (CFS) unpacking for one shared-container shipment, depending on the port. Estimate from a forwarder price page (Suaid Global, September 2026). Source. Replace it with your forwarder's figure under planning choices.$200 to $500
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Delivery from the port to your doorestimate
Estimate, no authoritative source. LCL residential delivery with liftgate roughly $300-$900; container drayage to a home $600-$1,500 or more. White-glove inside delivery is extra.$300 to $1,500
Total at your door
$2,286 to $4,236
The same factory price from another country
Duty and customs fees only, at the China-wide rate for China unless you picked another. Mexico includes the 10% Section 301 layer where applicable, without a USMCA claim. A qualifying duty-free USMCA entry removes that layer, but not wood Section 232 duties. Product-specific China Section 301 exclusions are not applied. Factory prices, freight and lead times differ by country, so type the real quote from each. The antidumping orders here cover goods from China.
| Made in | Duty | Factory price + duty + fees |
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| China (shown above) | $500 50% | $1,536 |
| VietnamGet a quote from Vietnam | $250 25% | $1,286 |
| MexicoGet a quote from Mexico | $250 25% | $1,286 |
- Mexico: USMCA does not remove Section 232 wood duties where they apply. Shipping Chinese goods through Mexico does not establish Mexican origin. Source
Planning estimate, not a quote. Duty follows the HTS code on your entry; have a licensed customs broker confirm it before you pay a deposit.
Rates and prices checked
By the China Home Source editorial team · Updated · How we check numbers
What the result includes
Each cost line, and where its number comes from
Factory price, duty, customs fees, broker, freight and delivery. Duty and fees come from the official notices; freight from the indexes and forwarder price pages; anything we estimate says so.
Show each line and its source Duty layers, fees, freight and the estimates
- Factory price (FOB)
- What you pay the factory with the goods loaded on the ship in China. US duty is charged on this value, so every duty line is a share of it.
- Section 301: 25%
- 25% on the China product lines covered by HTSUS notes 20(e) through 20(g), before any product-specific exclusion. The heading depends on the item: 9903.88.03 covers the full subheadings in note 20(f); 9903.88.04 covers the partial subheadings in note 20(g), including certain seats. The 2018 actions remain in effect, with another review announced in October 2026. Ask your broker to check the full product description and entry date against the exclusions in note 20. A second Section 301 layer of 12.5% started on July 24, 2026. Goods under Section 232 do not pay that second layer.
- Section 232 (wood products)
- 25% on upholstered wooden seats, scheduled to rise to 30% on January 1, 2027; 25% on kitchen cabinets and vanities, scheduled to rise to 50% on January 1, 2027. Metal-frame sofas are not covered.
- Antidumping and countervailing duty
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Orders on wooden cabinets and vanities, wooden bedroom furniture, mattresses, quartz surface products. The China-wide rate applies unless your exporter has its own rate from Commerce. It is a cash deposit at entry; a later review can raise it, and the importer of record pays the difference.
- Final results of AD administrative review 2023-2024, Federal Register 2026-07866
- Amended CVD order, Federal Register 2025-12373
- Final results of AD administrative review 2024, Federal Register 2026-16446
- AD order, Federal Register 2019-27166
- CVD sunset review, Federal Register 2026-15034
- AD and CVD orders on quartz surface products, Federal Register 2019-14865
- AD and CVD orders on quartz surface products, Federal Register 2019-14865
- Customs fees
- Merchandise Processing Fee (formal entry): 0.3464% of the factory price, at least $34.58 and at most $670.86. Harbor Maintenance Fee (ocean): 0.125%, no cap.
- Broker, ISF filing and bond estimate
- Articles worth more than $250 that are subject to Section 301 or Section 232 duties (Chapter 99, subchapter III of the tariff schedule) cannot use an informal entry. They need a formal entry, and a formal entry needs a customs bond. Ocean shipments need an Importer Security Filing before loading. No official source publishes broker fees, so we use $250 to $700 from a forwarder's price page.
- Ocean freight
- Full 40 ft container: the Drewry and Freightos index values for each coast, shown with their dates. Shared container (LCL): a per-CBM range from forwarder price pages, marked as an estimate. Check a live quote before you book; the indexes move weekly.
- Delivery, port charges, inspection, damage estimate or yours
- Port-to-door delivery uses $300 to $1,500, an estimate with no official source, and it covers local delivery only. If you live inland, pick Inland in the form and get a door-delivery quote for your ZIP code. For a shared container we add $200 to $500 for destination port and warehouse (CFS) charges, from a forwarder price page; for a full container those charges are not in our data, so the result says so next to the total. Origin charges in China are part of an FOB price. Inspection and a damage buffer start at zero: they are planning choices you make, not numbers we know.
Go or no-go
Duty on every $1,000 at the factory, by item and country
Duty is a share of the factory price, so it reads the same for any order size. Fixed costs per shipment (broker, bond, port warehouse, delivery) do not scale, which is why small orders pay more per dollar. Importing pays only if your US quote is clearly higher than the delivered total: type both numbers in the calculator above.
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Upholstered sofas and chairs, metal frame
37.5%
9401.71.0011
Every $1,000 at the factory pays $375 in duty from China. Made in Vietnam: $125. Made in Mexico: $100.
Depends on your price.
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Wood dining tables and chairs (not upholstered)
37.5%
9403.60.8040, 9401.69.6011
Every $1,000 at the factory pays $375 in duty from China. Made in Vietnam: $125. Made in Mexico: $100.
Depends on your price.
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Metal household furniture
37.5%
9403.20.0090
Every $1,000 at the factory pays $375 in duty from China. Made in Vietnam: $125. Made in Mexico: $100.
Depends on your price.
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Upholstered sofas and chairs, wood frame
50%
9401.61.6011, 9401.61.4011 · 55% scheduled from January 1, 2027
Every $1,000 at the factory pays $500 in duty from China. Made in Vietnam: $250. Made in Mexico: $250.
Depends on your price.
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Wooden bedroom furniture
253.51%
9403.50.9045, 9403.50.9080
Every $1,000 at the factory pays $2,535 in duty from China. Made in Vietnam: $125. Made in Mexico: $100.
Depends on your price and your exporter's rate.
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Wooden kitchen cabinets
319.81%
9403.40.9060, 9403.91.0080 · 344.81% scheduled from January 1, 2027
Every $1,000 at the factory pays $3,198 in duty from China, or $695 with the published separate rate. Made in Vietnam: $250. Made in Mexico: $250.
Depends on your price and your exporter's rate.
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Wooden bathroom vanities
319.81%
9403.60.8093 · 344.81% scheduled from January 1, 2027
Every $1,000 at the factory pays $3,198 in duty from China, or $695 with the published separate rate. Made in Vietnam: $250. Made in Mexico: $250.
Depends on your price and your exporter's rate.
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Quartz countertops
433.97%
6810.99.0020, 6810.99.0040
Every $1,000 at the factory pays $4,340 in duty from China, or $3,672 with the published separate rate. Vietnam and Mexico: not in our data.
Depends on your price and your exporter's rate.
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Mattresses
1,870.03%
9404.21.0013
Every $1,000 at the factory pays $18,700 in duty from China. Vietnam and Mexico: not in our data.
Depends on your price and your exporter's rate.
Price your order in the calculator
Wooden cabinets, vanities and bedroom furniture
At the China-wide antidumping rate the duty alone is 319.81% on cabinets and 253.51% on bedroom furniture, so before freight a cabinet factory price has to be under 24% of your US quote to break even. Three paths can change that. An exporter with the published separate rate brings cabinets to 69.53%; check its name in the latest review before you pay. Cabinets made in Vietnam or Mexico with no Chinese parts pay 25%. Or buy Chinese-made cabinets from a US importer that has already paid the duty. Read the full cabinet guide or the kitchen cabinet tariff page.
Sofas, dining sets, metal furniture
Duty is 37.5% to 50%. The fixed costs per shipment weigh most on small orders, so larger orders, custom sizes and pieces with a high US markup are where the numbers can work. Mattresses pay 1,870.03%: $18,700 in duty on every $1,000 at the factory. See how to buy furniture from China and the Foshan furniture market guide.
Vietnam and Mexico: Section 232 applies to wood cabinets, vanities and upholstered wood-frame seats from every country. Other furniture pays the 2026 Section 301 tariff: 12.5% from Vietnam and 10% from Mexico, which is 0% for goods that enter duty-free under USMCA (USTR notice of actions, Federal Register 2026-15181 (HTSUS note 52)).
Questions
Furniture import cost questions
Is it cheaper to buy furniture from China?
It depends on the item and on your US price, because US duty on furniture made in China runs from 37.5% to 1,870.03% of the factory price on November 9, 2026. Wood dining tables and chairs and upholstered metal-frame seats pay 37.5%. Upholstered wood-frame sofas and chairs pay 50%. Wooden kitchen cabinets pay 319.81% and wooden beds, dressers and nightstands pay 253.51% when the exporter has no antidumping rate of its own. Type your factory price and your US quote above and compare the delivered total, not the factory price.
Can I buy furniture directly from China as a homeowner?
Yes, but you become the importer of record. You owe the duty, including any antidumping increase set in a later review. Articles worth more than $250 that are subject to Section 301 or Section 232 duties (Chapter 99, subchapter III of the tariff schedule) cannot use an informal entry. They need a formal entry, and a formal entry needs a customs bond. For ocean freight an Importer Security Filing is due before the goods are loaded in China. A customs broker files these for you; the calculator budgets $250 to $700 for broker, filing and bond, which is an estimate.
How much does it cost to ship furniture from China to the USA?
A full 40 ft container costs $7,884 (Drewry World Container Index, October 15, 2026) and $8,126 (Freightos FBX01, October 18, 2026) to the West Coast, and $10,075 (Drewry World Container Index, October 15, 2026) and $9,713 (Freightos FBX03, October 18, 2026) to the East Coast, port to port. A shared container (LCL) is priced per cubic meter: about $45 to $165 per CBM to the West Coast and $60 to $180 to the East Coast, from forwarder price pages. Delivery from the port to your door adds roughly $300 to $1,500 (estimate), and warehouse and document charges come on top.
How long does it take to ship furniture from China?
At sea, about 14-18 days to the West Coast and 21-28 days to the East Coast, per a forwarder's published guide. Production, getting the goods to the port, customs and the delivery to your door all come on top, and a shared container waits until it is full.
What is the duty on kitchen cabinets from China?
Every $1,000 of wooden kitchen cabinets at the factory pays $3,198 in US duty (319.81%) at the China-wide antidumping rate, or $695 (69.53%) from an exporter with the published separate rate, on November 9, 2026. It rises to 344.81% on January 1, 2027 if the scheduled Section 232 increase goes ahead. Made in Vietnam or Mexico, with no Chinese parts, the same cabinets pay 25%. Whether that pays depends on your factory price and your US quote: type both in the calculator.
Is my sofa from China 25%, 30% or 50% duty?
Upholstered wood-frame sofas and chairs pay 50% today: Section 301 plus Section 232. If the scheduled increase starts on January 1, 2027, that becomes 55%. Upholstered metal-frame seats are outside Section 232 and pay 37.5%. The frame material decides the HTS code, so ask the seller what code goes on the invoice.
Who pays the duty if the seller quotes "DDP, duties included"?
Whoever is the importer of record on the entry. If that is you, you owe any duty the seller did not pay. A delivered price that is lower than the duty the item should carry (for wooden cabinets at the China-wide rate, 319.81% of the factory price) means something on the entry is wrong: the value, the origin or the code. Ask who the importer of record is before you pay.
Before you order
- US tariff on furniture from China
Every duty layer by item type, with the date and the notice it comes from.
- Kitchen cabinet tariffs
Why wood cabinets from China pay 319.81% and how to check an exporter's own rate.
- Should you import kitchen cabinets from China?
Duty per $1,000, your own quote in the calculator, and the paths that still work.
- Chinese kitchen cabinets
What the cabinets sold by US showrooms are, and what to ask before you buy.
- Importing furniture from China to the US
The steps from quote to delivery, with a cost at each one.
- Foshan furniture market
Which mall for which budget, and what shipping home costs.