Duty & Tax Calculation

The Total Cost Calculator (TCC) is Glopal’s web service engine for calculating total landing costs for international deliveries, taking into account various landed cost components, including

Buyer-facing shipping fees
Customs duties: General, reciprocal, and preferential duties
Taxes: VAT or sales taxes, and excise tax
Ancillary fees: Optional customised surcharge to cover administrative fees

The engine supports both forward and reverse calculation, allowing to determine landed cost components either on the net or gross order value.

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

/tcc/calculate_order

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

Responses

200

400

Bad Request

401

Unauthorized

403

Forbidden

404

Not found

405

Method not allowed

500

Internal server error

503

Service unavailable

post

/tcc/calculate_order

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 &amp; 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"
          }
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}

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