Sourcing comparison · Clothing & Garments
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 clothing & garments as fast as switching country of origin. Switch the origin from Cambodia (22%) to Myanmar (12%) and an importer reclaims about $10,550 for every $100,000 purchased. The duty line moves with paperwork, not production cost, which is why it rewards attention. The sections that follow show where every dollar of the difference comes from.
Start with the two duty stacks side by side. Sourced from Cambodia, the goods face a 12% Most-Favoured-Nation base duty and a 10% forced-labor Section 301 duty on its clothing & garments, an effective 22% once the $49.74 in processing fees are added. On the Myanmar side, Customs applies a 12% Most-Favoured-Nation base duty on its clothing & garments, an effective 12% 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. Subtract one stack from the other and $1,055.00 per $10,000 shipment separates the two origins. Scaled up, expect near $2,637 per $25,000 order and around $10,550 once annual buying reaches $100,000. At order level, $25,000 of goods carries roughly $2,637 more duty from Cambodia than from Myanmar.
clothing & garments — T-shirts, Jeans, Dresses, Jackets, Underwear, Sportswear, and Work uniforms and similar goods — falls under HTS 61, 62. The US imports clothing & garments at scale, so the origin mix for this category is unusually sensitive to tariff policy. On carve-outs: USMCA-qualifying apparel from Mexico with appropriate yarn-forward content rules qualifies for 0% duty. Cambodia, in Asia-Pacific, ships the US mainly clothing garments, footwear, and furniture. With no preferential deal in force, Cambodia clothing & garments faces the standard rates plus any applicable surcharge. Myanmar (Asia-Pacific) sends the United States largely clothing garments, food, and lumber wood products. Myanmar has no agreement to soften the stack, so its clothing & garments carries the full column-1 plus surcharge load. Shared Asia-Pacific routing keeps logistics roughly comparable and leaves the duty gap as the decisive number. For a buyer committed to Cambodia, Myanmar is a concrete diversification target whose tariff math is settled and whose remaining diligence is commercial. With the US running its highest average tariff in decades, concentrated exposure to one high-duty origin is now a measurable annual cost rather than an abstract risk.
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. Every figure is produced by the same tariff engine behind the site's calculators, holding FOB value, freight and insurance constant so only the duty effect of origin shows through. 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 22% to 12%. 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 clothing & garments is assessed a 12% Most-Favoured-Nation base duty, for an effective 12% duty rate before the Merchandise Processing Fee ($36.55) and Harbor Maintenance Fee ($13.19).
Cambodia carries an effective 22% rate versus 12% 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 .
