Trade AI

AI Import Duty and Trade Advisor

Describe what you are importing. It prices the landed cost with every rate shown and editable, then hands you the questions to ask your clearing agent.

Private by default · answers with figures in your local currency · opens the right tool filled in

Estimate a 2016 Toyota Axio landed cost into Nigeria before clearing Estimate landed cost for electronics from China to Ghana What should I ask a clearing agent before importing clothing into Kenya?Help me compare CIF, duty and port charges for machinery into Tanzania

A real run — then real numbers

You ask

“Estimate a 2016 Toyota Axio landed cost into Nigeria before clearing”

It understood

Item2016 Toyota AxioDestinationNigeriaTaskLanded cost before clearing

It asks

Purchase price / FOB value — kept in this browser session

It opens

Import Duty Calculator — with these details already filled in

Purchase details never enter analytics. Stays in this browser.

Run this exact prompt yourself →

How this helps

Ask about import duty, car imports, electronics, clothing, machinery, CIF, shipping, insurance, exchange rates, or HS-code planning. It asks for whatever is missing, then opens the import-duty and car-import calculators with your figures already in place.

Price a shipment end to endEnter destination, product or vehicle, value, shipping, insurance, origin, port, and exchange rate in one pass.

See the real landed costGet CIF, duty and tax assumptions, clearing and port estimates, and a landed cost you can check against your own quotes.

Open the right calculatorVehicle questions open Car Import Cost. Product questions open Import Duty, Landed Cost, HS Code, or the trade finance tools.

Built for where you are

Nigeria import maths uses the ECOWAS CET bands (0, 5, 10, 20, 35%) with 7.5% import VAT on the duty-inclusive base — and the duty band always stays an editable input you confirm against the NCS tariff.

Import Duty Calculator →

Duty rates are always planning defaults you confirm with the destination authority — the tools never treat a missing rate as zero or a preference as automatic.

The tools it opens

Every route ends in a real calculator or document tool — the assistant fills in what it learned, and you stay in control of the numbers.

Import Duty CalculatorCIF, duty, VAT, and levy estimates with editable rates.Car Import CostVehicle-specific landed cost with country rule packs.Car Price DirectoryLocal prices vs import costs across African markets.Landed Cost CalculatorFull shipment costing from FOB to warehouse.HS Code LookupFind the tariff heading before you price the duty.

Straight answers about limits

What it will not do

Import estimates are planning figures — the final customs assessment can differ, and HS classification needs professional confirmation.
AfroTools does not replace a licensed clearing agent, customs broker, or the revenue authority's own valuation.

Privacy, plainly

What you plan to import is commercial information. AfroTools records the broad category and country of a trade question, not the product, supplier, or amounts you enter.

Questions people actually ask

Are the duty numbers on this page real?

The worked example is computed in your browser by the same engine behind the Import Duty Calculator, on the inputs listed under it. The 20% band is a planning default — the whole point is that you can edit it once you confirm your item's band.

Why does it keep telling me to confirm with customs?

Because classification and valuation are decisions the authority makes, not the calculator. A tool that presented its defaults as final would misprice shipments — ours shows its assumptions and makes every rate editable instead.

Can it find my HS code?

The HS Code Lookup gets you to a likely heading fast, and the advisor carries it into the duty estimate. Final classification still belongs to customs or your broker — treat the lookup as the starting point it is.