Duty & Tax Calculation

The Total Cost Calculator (TCC) is Glopal’s web service engine for calculating total landing costs for international shipping, including shipping costs, customs duties, as well as any additional taxes (VAT, excise taxes,..). The engine supports both forward and reverse calculation of shipping costs, duties, and taxes.

Total landed cost calculation for an EU order

Pre-Integrated Platforms

The Total Cost Calculator (TCC) is pre-integrated into Glopal’s Checkout solution, and available for the most relevant e-commerce platforms:

• Shopify: Partner app for Shopify and Shopify Plus.
• Magento 2: Plugin
• Salesforce Cloud Commerce: B2C Commerce Cartridge listed on the Salesforce AppExchange, supporting SFRA, OpenCommerce API (OCAPI), and Site Genesis

Native API Integration

The engine is also available as native API service:

Request quote for an order

post

Header parameters

x-loginstringRequired

Client username (set by Glopal)

Example: usernamePattern: ^[a-z0-9\-]{3,255}$

x-aliasstringOptional

Optional system username to enable separation of authentication credentials by integrated client system. (set by Glopal)

Example: alias-usernamePattern: ^[a-z0-9\-]{3,50}$

x-signaturestringRequired

The authentication signature is created by using the concatenation of the login, the ‘@’ sign and the timestamp, transformed into a HMAC_256 signature using your secret access key.

Example: 40b976b35a08bb951439ea7bbfa0a7bd73dab7c813399a31d9d1a157bc08929bPattern: ^[0-9a-f]{64}$

x-timestampnumber · floatRequired

The authentication timestamp must be a decimal numeric representing the current POSIX time, extended to microsecond accuracy. If the requesting system does not provide high-resolution time, it is advised to use a 6-digit random number. It is important to have the requesting system synchronised with a reliable time source (f.i. a stratum 2 NTP server) to avoid request rejection.

Example: 1680010295.775523Pattern: ^[12]\d{9}\.\d{6}$

x-versionnumber · floatOptionalDefault: 0.68Pattern: (^0\.\d{2}$|^[1-9]\d*\.\d{2}$)

Body

application/jsonapplication/xml

argsall ofRequired

Responses

200

OK

application/jsonapplication/xml

Responseall of

400

Bad Request

application/jsonapplication/xml

401

Unauthorized

application/jsonapplication/xml

403

Forbidden

application/jsonapplication/xml

404

Not found

application/jsonapplication/xml

405

Method not allowed

application/jsonapplication/xml

500

Internal server error

application/jsonapplication/xml

503

Service unavailable

application/jsonapplication/xml

post

JSPy

const timestamp = String(Date.now() / 1000).padEnd(17, '0');
const username = "username";
const signature = CryptoJS.HmacSHA256(
  `${username}@${timestamp}`, "sharedsecret"
  ).toString(CryptoJS.digest)

const response = await fetch('https://ws.xport.glopalservice.com/tcc/calculate_order', {
  method: 'POST',
  headers: {
    "Content-Type": "application/json",
    "x-login": username,
    "x-timestamp": timestamp,
    "x-signature": signature
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({
    "args":{
      "from_country_id": "US",
      "to_country_id": "CA",
      "to_state_id": "QC",
      "delivery_type_id": "X",
      "shipments": [
        {
          "currency": "USD",
          "products": [
            {
              "qty": 2,
              "unitprice": 19.99,
              "description": "Paul Mitchell Tea Tree Special (10.1 Oz) Shampoo & Conditioner Duo Set"
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    }
  }),
});
const data = await response.json();

{
  "error":0,
  "result":[
    {
      "from_country_id":"FR",
      "to_country_id":"US",
      "to_state_id":"CA",
      "to_post_code":"90210",
      "delivery_type_id":"X",
      "transaction_id":"642edad40de2f361ba4d1684aaf3c53a0afc687b",
      "dutiable_value":84.75,
      "dutiable_value_discount":10,
      "dutiable_value_discount_tax":1.2,
      "dutiable_value_discount_duty":1.23,
      "dutiable_value_discount_net":8.02,
      "dutiable_value_tax_included":100,
      "dutiable_value_tax_charge":4.23,
      "duty_charge":15.25,
      "duty_charge_included":12.12,
      "duty_charge_tax":2.23,
      "currency":"USD",
      "dead_weight":12.34,
      "vol_weight":15.22,
      "weight":15.22,
      "weight_unit":"kg",
      "duty_calculation_rule":"CIF",
      "tax_calculation_rule":"CIF",
      "is_duty_deminimis_applied":0,
      "is_tax_deminimis_applied":0,
      "commission_fee":0.12,
      "incoterms":"DDP",
      "reference":"test123",
      "tax_charge":15.25,
      "tax_charges":[
        {
          "name":"Charge",
          "code":"charge_id",
          "rate":0,
          "type":"dutiable_value",
          "value":0
        }
      ],
      "tax_charge_included":12.12,
      "product_tax_charge":10.03,
      "calculus_shipping_charge":15.33,
      "shipping_charge":13.33,
      "shipping_charge_duty":3.33,
      "shipping_charge_duty_included":1.33,
      "shipping_charge_tax":2.33,
      "shipping_charge_tax_included":2.33,
      "shipping_charge_duty_tax":0.33,
      "merchant_shipping_charge":{
        "currency":"USD",
        "value":5
      },
      "discount":10,
      "discounts":[
        {
          "name":"Charge",
          "code":"charge_id",
          "rate":0,
          "type":"dutiable_value",
          "value":0
        }
      ],
      "extra_charge":33.23,
      "extra_charges":[
        {
          "name":"Charge",
          "code":"charge_id",
          "rate":0,
          "type":"dutiable_value",
          "value":0
        }
      ],
      "transport":{
        "carrier":"DHL",
        "service":"DHL Express"
      },
      "products":[
        {
          "calculus_duty_charge":5.33,
          "calculus_tax_charge":3.49,
          "country_id_of_origin":"FR",
          "documentation_code":"CITES_2000_a",
          "dutiable_value":84.75,
          "dutiable_value_tax_charge":4.23,
          "dutiable_value_tax_included":100,
          "duty_charge":15.25,
          "duty_charge_included":12.12,
          "duty_charge_tax":2.23,
          "duty_deminimis":125,
          "duty_rate":8.25,
          "gtin":"1234567890",
          "hs_code":"429999",
          "merchant_sku":"1234567890",
          "alt_merchant_sku":"AMS1234567890",
          "product_dutiable_value_discount":10,
          "product_dutiable_value_discount_tax":1.2,
          "product_dutiable_value_discount_duty":1.23,
          "product_dutiable_value_discount_net":8.02,
          "product_shipping_charge_duty":3.33,
          "product_shipping_charge_tax":2.33,
          "product_shipping_charge_duty_tax":0.33,
          "prohibition_id":"W12",
          "prohibition_note":"Warning for product type importing to destination country",
          "quantity":100,
          "shipment_id":123456,
          "tax_charge":15.25,
          "tax_charges":[
            {
              "name":"Charge",
              "code":"charge_id",
              "rate":0,
              "type":"dutiable_value",
              "value":0
            }
          ],
          "tax_charge_included":12.12,
          "tax_deminimis":25,
          "tax_rate":20.25,
          "total_charge":150.23,
          "transport":{
            "carrier":"DHL",
            "service":"DHL Express"
          }
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}