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Import duty and taxes in Australia

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Calculates source-backed duty, tax and fees. Not fully verified: nomenclature, trade remedies. Affected results are marked conditional, need user input, or show unresolved components.

Calculate an import into Australia

Where the goods were made. Shipping from a country does not make them originate there.

Searches the destination’s official tariff text. Not sure? Use the guided HS code finder.

Don’t know the code? Use the guided HS code finder

A FOB price does not include international freight or insurance. The purchase price is not automatically the customs value; LandedGrid adjusts it to the destination’s valuation basis.

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Customs valuation

FOB-type basis — international freight and insurance are excluded

Transaction value at the place of export. Inland costs before export are included; freight and insurance from the place of export to Australia are not part of the customs value.

Customs Act 1901, Part VIII Division 2 (ss.154–161L) · Australian Border Force

Customs exchange rate

ABF publishes official daily exchange rates in the Integrated Cargo System reference files. The customs value is converted at the rate for the day of export (Customs Act 1901 s.161J), not the day of arrival. Enter the export date as the calculation date.

Applicable date: Day of export.

Taxes and government fees on import

  • Goods and Services Tax (GST) on the taxable importation10%

    Base: customs value + duty + additional duties + trade remedies + intl freight insurance

    A New Tax System (Goods and Services Tax) Act 1999, s.13-20

  • Import Processing Charge (electronic declaration)50.00 AUD

  • Import Processing Charge (electronic declaration)152.00 AUD

  • Biosecurity charge on full import declaration (air)48.00 AUD

  • Biosecurity charge on full import declaration (sea)71.00 AUD

Low-value consignments

  • Goods with a customs value of AUD 1,000 or less (other than alcohol and tobacco) are cleared without duty or GST at the border. Since 1 July 2018, GST on low-value goods sold to consumers is collected by the overseas vendor or marketplace at the point of sale.

    In force from 2018-07-01 · GST on low value goods

What LandedGrid does not calculate for this destination

  • nomenclature: ABF publishes machine-readable codes and rates, but tariff descriptions only as PDF. Descriptions shown at HS 6-digit level come from another official nomenclature and are labelled.
  • trade remedies: Dumping and countervailing duties are administered by the Anti-Dumping Commission and are not in the ICS reference files LandedGrid ingests. Check the Dumping Commodity Register for your goods and country of export.
  • excise: Excise-equivalent customs duty on alcohol, tobacco and fuel, Wine Equalisation Tax and Luxury Car Tax are not calculated.
  • regulatory: Biosecurity, permit and product-safety requirements are not yet covered.
  • Tariff Concession Orders (TCOs) are not applied automatically.

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Routes into Australia

Product headings in Australia

Customs value · Exchange rate · Low value · Import tax · Trade agreements · Sources

australia