Import duty

No table covers every country's duty rate, and the honest ones say so

A duty rate belongs to a country, a tariff line and a date, all three at once. Print it in a table here and it starts going stale the moment a government revises its schedule. What follows instead is the lookup path itself: where the US rate lives, where an American exporter checks a foreign-trade-agreement rate, and where five more destination countries publish their own current schedules. Every tool below was confirmed live on 2026-08-31.

Six government tools, linkedConfirmed live 2026-08-31No guessed numbers
A shipment addressed across a border, duty undetermined
The rate lives with the country

Six governments, six tools, six schedules on six different revision calendars.

Goods entering the United States

The rate lives at hts.usitc.gov, the Harmonized Tariff Schedule search run by the US International Trade Commission, live and reachable as of 2026-08-31. Typing a plain-language description or a known code returns candidate ten-digit numbers with General, Special and Column 2 rate columns attached to each — the same three columns our US import duty rate guide walks through with a worked example. This page will not repeat that breakdown; its job is pointing at the right tool for a given country, and for goods entering the US, that tool is this one.

Goods leaving the United States, under a trade agreement

An American exporter checking what a buyer in Canada, Mexico or another US free trade agreement partner will owe has a purpose-built government tool for it:

“Quickly find tariff information and origin requirements to make sure your products are eligible for the lowest tariffs possible.”International Trade Administration, FTA Tariff Tool, trade.gov, read 2026-08-31

The tool covers all products across all 97 chapters of the Harmonized System for every country the US holds a free trade agreement with, and shows both the tariff line in effect now and the year a phased-in rate becomes duty free. Outside an FTA partner, this tool has nothing to say — the destination country's own tariff authority is the only place left to check, which is the rest of this page.

Five more destinations, and where each one publishes its own rate

Every row below is the destination country's own government tool, not a summary of it. Confirmed reachable on 2026-08-31; a government can restructure its own site at any time, so a dead link is worth reporting rather than assuming the rate went with it.

Destination-country tariff authorities, their own current lookup tools, confirmed live 2026-08-31.
DestinationAgencyTool
CanadaCanada Border Services AgencyCustoms Tariff — classifications and preferential rates under Canada's free trade agreements
United KingdomHM Revenue & CustomsUK Integrated Online Tariff — commodity codes, import duties, taxes and controls
European UnionEuropean Commission, Directorate-General for TradeAccess2Markets — TARIC classification via the My Trade Assistant tool
AustraliaAustralian Border ForceCurrent Working Tariff — the combined nomenclature and statistical classification
JapanJapan CustomsJapan's Tariff Schedule — statistical codes for import, revised several times a year

Our own Australia lane guides, including Australia customs fees, already turn the Border Force tool above into a plain AUD 1,000 threshold and a 10% GST rate. Nobody has done the equivalent legwork yet for the other four, which is exactly why the link goes to the government tool itself rather than to a number that would need to be re-checked on every visit.

Where these rules come from

Each of these is the issuing government's own current tool, not a third-party summary, and each is revised on that government's own schedule without a shared changelog. Re-run the lookup on the actual destination country before relying on a rate for a real shipment; the classification a keyword search returns still needs matching to the exact item, not just the general category.

Duty rate lookup, answered

Where do I find import duty rates by country?

On that country's own tariff authority, not on a table like this one. Duty rates are set per country, per tariff line, and revised on each government's own schedule, so the only current source is the lookup tool the destination country itself publishes — the US Harmonized Tariff Schedule search at hts.usitc.gov for goods entering the United States, and the equivalent tool run by each other country for goods entering theirs.

Is there one table that covers every country's duty rates?

No, and a page claiming to have one is guessing. Each country classifies goods under its own version of the Harmonized System, sets its own rates, and revises them on its own timeline — sometimes several times a year. A static table is out of date the day a government changes a rate line, which is why every reference below points to a live government tool instead of printing numbers.

How do I check the duty rate for something I'm exporting from the US?

Trade.gov's FTA Tariff Tool is built for exactly that when the destination is a US free trade agreement partner: it looks up tariff information and origin requirements by product across all US FTA partner countries, covering all 97 chapters of the Harmonized System. For a destination without an FTA, the country's own tariff authority — several are listed on this page — is the only current source.

How do I check the duty rate for something entering the US?

At hts.usitc.gov, the Harmonized Tariff Schedule search run by the US International Trade Commission. Our separate guide to US import duty rates walks through reading the General, Special and Column 2 columns it returns; this page's job is pointing to the right tool for a given country, not re-explaining that one in depth.

Why do UK, EU and Australia guidance sometimes disagree on the same product?

Because they are different legal systems classifying the same physical object under their own rules. The UK left the EU's TARIC system and runs its own Online Tariff; the EU classifies under TARIC through its Access2Markets tool; Australia runs its own Working Tariff. A product can sit under a different tariff line, and a different rate, in each one — there is no single global duty rate for anything.

Dmitrii Timin founder of SMKlog

Runs SMKlog and its live rate comparisons across USPS, UPS, and FedEx. The guides here are built from the same carrier data the calculator quotes from, with prices captured on the date shown on each page. Based in Berkeley Heights, New Jersey.