Sourcing comparison · Bags & Luggage
Tariff & fee savings only, assuming equal product cost — your actual landed cost also depends on price and freight, which vary by supplier.
| Annual import value | Estimated duty & fee savings / year |
|---|---|
| $50,000 | $5,275 |
| $250,000 | $26,375 |
| $1,000,000 | $105,500 |
Savings scale linearly with volume. Enter your exact figure to model it precisely.
Calculate your exact volume →Few procurement levers move landed cost on bags & luggage as fast as switching country of origin. Switch the origin from Cambodia (17.5%) to Myanmar (7.5%) and an importer reclaims about $10,550 for every $100,000 purchased. The importers who win this cycle are the ones treating country of origin as a number to optimise, not a given. What follows is the layer-by-layer comparison, the trade context behind each rate, and how the gap grows with volume.
Start with the two duty stacks side by side. Sourced from Cambodia, the goods face a 7.5% Most-Favoured-Nation base duty and a 10% forced-labor Section 301 duty on its bags & luggage, an effective 17.5% once the $49.74 in processing fees are added. On the Myanmar side, Customs applies a 7.5% Most-Favoured-Nation base duty on its bags & luggage, an effective 7.5% once the $49.74 in processing fees are added. Because the MPF and HMF ($49.74 combined) track customs value rather than origin, they wash out of the comparison entirely. That leaves a $1,055.00 gap on every $10,000 of goods, driven entirely by the 10% spread in effective duty rate. That same per-dollar gap is about $2,638 on a $25,000 order and $10,550 on $100,000 of annual volume. At order level, $25,000 of goods carries roughly $2,638 more duty from Cambodia than from Myanmar.
bags & luggage — Suitcases, Backpacks, Handbags, Briefcases, Sports bags, Toiletry bags, and School bags and similar goods — falls under HTS 4202. Bags & Luggage is a high-turnover category where landed-cost discipline separates the importers who hold margin from those who don't. On carve-outs: premium bags from European countries faced S122 (now lapsed to 0% since July 24, 2026) but not the China-only punitive S301; many are instead on the forced-labor Section 301 covered list, and bilateral deals may reduce that rate for some European manufacturers. Cambodia, in Asia-Pacific, ships the US mainly clothing garments, footwear, and furniture. With no preferential deal in force, Cambodia bags & luggage faces the standard rates plus any applicable surcharge. Myanmar's trade profile leans toward clothing garments, food, and lumber wood products, and it sits in Asia-Pacific. Myanmar has no agreement to soften the stack, so its bags & luggage carries the full column-1 plus surcharge load. With both origins in Asia-Pacific, freight lanes and transit times are broadly similar, so duty is the cleanest variable to compare. Myanmar is surfaced as a credible alternative, not just the cheapest line — it is among the origins a US buyer of bags & luggage could realistically qualify. US tariff policy in 2026 is unusually fluid, with effective rates on many categories changing several times a year — a reason to treat any origin comparison as a live calculation rather than a fixed sheet.
Where Myanmar is a viable supplier, expect roughly $10,550 at $100,000, rising to about $26,375 at $250,000 and $105,500 at $1,000,000 as volume grows. All values are calculated, not assumed — the engine applies the current published rates to identical goods and reports the difference. These figures reflect tariff and fee savings only, assuming equal product cost — your actual landed cost also depends on price and freight, which vary by supplier. If any price premium from Myanmar is smaller than the duty saving, the switch still wins on net landed cost. Before acting, confirm the Myanmar supplier classifies under the same HTS heading, can meet your volume and certifications, and faces no product-specific exclusion or quota that shifts the duty. The saving is current today; given the pace of 2026 revisions, verify it again at contract signing. Open the Tariff Savings Finder to rank every feasible origin for your specific volume.
At $100,000 of annual import value, switching from Cambodia to Myanmar saves an estimated $10,550 in duties and fees, because the effective tariff rate falls from 17.5% to 7.5%. The saving scales linearly with volume. These figures reflect tariff and fee savings only, assuming equal product cost — your actual landed cost also depends on price and freight, which vary by supplier.
Myanmar-origin bags & luggage is assessed a 7.5% Most-Favoured-Nation base duty, for an effective 7.5% duty rate before the Merchandise Processing Fee ($36.55) and Harbor Maintenance Fee ($13.19).
Cambodia carries an effective 17.5% rate versus 7.5% for Myanmar. The gap comes from differences in the base, Section 232 and bilateral rates that apply to each origin.
Tariff rates from Tax Foundation, USITC, and Penn Wharton Budget Model; retaliatory and industry data from the ITA Foreign Retaliations Database and U.S. Census Bureau (NAICS). Last verified .
