The tools
The costing templates, duty tables and downloads, grouped by what you are trying to do.
Tools you can use
12 things you can open, type into or take away for this purchase. 3 of them are spreadsheets you keep.
Calculators
Spreadsheets with live formulas. Type your own numbers into the yellow cells and the rest computes. They arrive empty of our figures on purpose, because your conversion cost is not ours.
- Freight reckoner Excel
Turn the box rate you were actually quoted into the cents per kilogram that belongs in your costing, at the load you will really achieve.
- Landed cost, quick check
Type a factory price and a freight figure, pick the market and the origin, and read the duty, the US extra layer and the VAT on the right base, on the page, before opening any sheet.
- Cost of payment terms
Put the deposit, the days and your own borrowing rate in and read what the term costs you in interest, so two quotes on two different terms compare on one line.
- One order, landed in three markets Excel
See why one mill price becomes three different landed costs, because the three markets charge duty on three different bases. Its worked example is a garment, but the bases and the arithmetic are the same for bed linen.
Tables to look yourself up in
Tables built to be read across. Find the row that is yours and read the answer, rather than reading a general explanation and doing the translation yourself.
- Import duty on home textiles
Read the American, European and British base rate on fifteen home textile lines, each stamped with the tariff code it was read at, including the split between a filled quilt and the cover that goes over it.
- What is actually paid, by product
Open your own product line rather than the category average and read the value, the growth and the price per piece being paid into the United States, with every supplier country under it.
- The twelve supplier countries
See who actually supplies American home textiles, at what share, and which of them is growing, before you decide which country to send your specification to.
- Seven supplier countries, side by side
Compare Pakistan, India, China, Bangladesh and the rest on wages, power reliability, currency, cost of money and the tariff they face, each figure stamped with its own year.
- Box rate to cents per kilo
Read your quoted box rate down the side and your realistic load across the top, and take the freight cost per kilo off the grid.
Spreadsheets to download
The underlying numbers as spreadsheets, each one carrying its own explanation sheet and its source. Yours to keep, rework and attach to an internal mail.
- Country cost indicators Excel
Take the whole origin comparison away as a sheet, with a reference year in its own column against every figure.
Ask a person
When the answer is not published anywhere, which for a real quotation it never is. Every one of these is free to send and gets a reference number back.
- Start a home textile enquiry
Send the product, the size grid and the quantity, and get an honest answer on whether it clears a dye lot before you spend anything.
- Register as a buyer
Not ordering yet? Tell us what you sell and how you buy, and we come to you when a checked mill matches.
Every spreadsheet here has live formulas and arrives with our own figures left out, because your conversion cost is not ours and a sheet full of somebody else's numbers is worse than an empty one. What is worth having is the shape: which lines exist, in what order, and what each one does to the total. All of them are on the downloads board as well, shelved by what you buy.
Start with this one
Step 8 is where a home textile order goes wrong quietly, because the freight and the duty base do the damage rather than the mill price. This sheet lays one order into three markets side by side with every rate a cell you type. Its worked example is a garment, but the customs value bases and the arithmetic are identical for bed linen, and those are the part worth having.
Take it with you one order, landed in three markets: a calculator with live formulas , with its sources, its licence and a sheet explaining every column inside the file.