Landed cost and duties
Landed cost and duty analysis built from your import documents
Tyllus builds the landed cost of every ocean shipment for importers and their import and finance teams, straight from the documents it reads: goods from the commercial invoice, freight from the forwarder invoice, duty and fees line by line from the 7501, broker fees from the broker invoice, and duties, taxes and fees from the Mexican pedimento.
Updated: October 3, 2026
How does Tyllus calculate landed cost per shipment?
Tyllus creates cost lines automatically from the documents it reads. Landed cost per shipment is the sum of goods, freight, broker fees, and duties, taxes and fees, and every cost opens to the lines it came from.
Several forwarder or broker invoices on one shipment add up, each kept as its own cost. If the same file is uploaded twice, Tyllus recognises the duplicate and counts the cost once.
| Cost layer | Source document | How it gets into Tyllus |
|---|---|---|
| Goods | Commercial invoice, which takes priority over the proforma invoice | Read automatically; invoice total and product lines become the goods cost |
| Freight | Freight forwarder invoice | Read automatically; every freight charge line is kept |
| US duty and fees | CBP Form 7501 entry summary | Read line by line: HTS lines for duty and the Other Fee Summary for fees |
| Broker fees | Customs broker invoice | Read automatically; every brokerage charge line is kept |
| Mexico duties, taxes and fees | Pedimento | Read automatically into separate duty, tax and fee costs |
| Other costs | Exam, terminal, storage or trucking invoices | Added by hand as custom cost lines, with the file stored on the shipment |
What does a landed cost breakdown look like in Tyllus?
Example shipment: one 40' high cube container of home goods imported into the United States. The amounts are fictional round numbers chosen to show how the layers add up.
On the shipment, each cost opens to its document lines, and the Costs page marks the shipment's invoice coverage as Complete once every expected invoice is in.
| Cost layer | Source document | Amount (USD) |
|---|---|---|
| Goods | Commercial invoice | 40,000 |
| Freight | Freight forwarder invoice | 3,000 |
| Customs duty | 7501, HTS lines | 2,600 |
| Customs fees | 7501, Other Fee Summary | 200 |
| Broker fees | Customs broker invoice | 400 |
| Landed cost | Sum of all layers | 46,200 |
How do you know which invoices are still missing?
Tyllus shows invoice coverage for every shipment as Missing, Partial or Complete. Filter the cost list to missing invoices only, then upload, edit or send an invoice from the same row.
- Missing: no invoice has been uploaded for the shipment yet.
- Partial: some invoices are in, shown as a count such as 2/3.
- Complete: every expected invoice for the shipment is uploaded.
- The forwarder invoice is requested automatically after arrival, and the final documents check looks for the 7501 or pedimento and the broker invoice.
- The Reports page raises a Missing invoice alert for any shipment without an uploaded invoice.
Which cost analyses does the Costs page include?
The Costs page turns every shipment's cost lines into analysis for operations and finance, with filters for date range, partner group, cost type, missing invoices and high cost.
- KPI cards for total spend this month, freight costs, duties and fees, and invoices uploaded.
- Cost breakdown by type: product cost, freight, duty and fees, and other costs, each opening to its rows.
- Monthly or yearly trend of total, goods, customs, freight and customs broker costs.
- Freight-lane view with the highest freight lane and the shipments on each lane.
- Top-5 spend by supplier (commercial invoices), freight forwarder (freight invoices) and customs broker (broker invoices).
- Invoice table with upload, view, edit and send actions, plus bulk download of selected invoices.
What cost reporting does Tyllus give finance and management?
The Reports page summarises spend across all shipments for the dates and filters you choose, and exports the result as a CSV file.
- KPIs for total spend, goods, freight, duty and fees, total containers and total entries.
- Daily spend trend and container volume by month, by shipment, port of loading or port of discharge.
- Partner analysis, trade-lane analysis, cost breakdown and top-5 supplier spend.
- Alerts for missing invoices and for shipments whose customs duty is well above your average.
- Estimated savings opportunities, such as partner consolidation and freight-lane review, each marked high, medium or low impact.
- Ask Tyllus AI questions about costs in plain language; it looks across up to 1,000 shipments to answer.
How does Tyllus analyse duty and customs fees?
Because duty and fees come from the 7501 line by line, Tyllus shows where duty is paid, not only how much. The Customs page groups spend by HTS code for US imports and by TIGIE/NICO code for Mexico, and charts duty history by month or year.
- Spend by HTS code (US) or TIGIE/NICO code (Mexico), with the shipments behind each code.
- Customs cost trend comparing total customs cost, customs fees and customs duty.
- Summary cards for the top HTS code, the highest-duty shipment and average duty.
- Filed entries list with each entry's duty and status.
Which landed cost tools can you use without an account?
Two public tools on tyllus.com work without signing up. The landed cost variance worksheet compares baseline and current import costs for a shipment, layer by layer, in your own browser. The follow-up cost calculator estimates what chasing partners for documents and answers costs your team, from your own volumes and handling times.
Watch the landed cost of your next shipment build itself.
Create an account, add a shipment and its invoices, and Tyllus turns them into goods, freight, duty, fee and broker costs.