Duty and Taxes Setup

Estimated duty and taxes are provided by an external tax engine. GTM has an out-of-the-box integration with third party data providers system for that purpose.

External System

An external system is any remote system where you can send GTM data. Use the External System Manager to define the outside source where you want to forward records. By default, GTM ships a public external system.

GTM prepares an XML request for duty and tax and sends to the external system. The external system calculates the duty and tax and sends these details as part of XML response.

Also see:

• Request Structure Information
• Response Structure Information

Landed Cost Simulator Service

For Landed Cost Simulator service, the data is modeled in the background as a trade transaction. Some of the elements required to be passed to the external tax engine are captured at the trade transaction level and others at the line level:

• Per Option (Request)
• • Trade Transaction (header) is built with:
  • • Source, Destination, Shipment ID, Incoterm, Transport Mode
  • Trade Transaction Lines are built with:
  • • Item, Classification (HTS Codes from Classification Type), Reporting Quantities (Duty and Tax UOMs), Country of Origin, Values/Costs (Freight, Insurance, Cost of Goods)
• Per Option (Response)
• • Multiple Duties (General and FTA Specific Rates)
  • Trade Transaction Level Taxes are added directly to Landed Cost
  • Trade Transaction Line Level Taxes are added to Landed Cost

Note: All the duties and taxes are returned as estimates only. Sometimes taxes are approximated as there is not enough information available.