Sourcing comparison · Crude Oil & Petroleum
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 | $53 |
| $250,000 | $264 |
| $1,000,000 | $1,055 |
Savings scale linearly with volume. Enter your exact figure to model it precisely.
Calculate your exact volume →Sourcing crude oil & petroleum is now a tariff decision as much as a supplier decision. Switch the origin from Canada (10.1%) to Germany (10%) and an importer reclaims about $105 for every $100,000 purchased. Where a competitor's margin erodes on the same tariff, a buyer who re-sources keeps the difference. The sections that follow show where every dollar of the difference comes from.
Here is how US Customs builds the bill for each origin. Sourced from Canada, the goods face a 0.1% Most-Favoured-Nation base duty and a 10% forced-labor Section 301 duty on its crude oil & petroleum, an effective 10.1% once the $49.74 in processing fees are added. On the Germany side, Customs applies a 0.1% Most-Favoured-Nation base duty and a 9.9% forced-labor Section 301 duty on its crude oil & petroleum, an effective 10% once the $49.74 in processing fees are added. Two charges are origin-blind — the MPF and HMF, together $49.74 on this entry — which is why the entire difference lives in the duty layers. The arithmetic difference between the stacks is $10.55 per $10,000 entry, all of it in the duty layers since the processing fees are origin-blind. Scaled up, expect near $26 per $25,000 order and around $105 once annual buying reaches $100,000. At order level, $25,000 of goods carries roughly $26 more duty from Canada than from Germany.
The category, HTS 2709, 2710, takes in Crude oil, Gasoline, Diesel fuel, Jet fuel, Fuel oil, Naphtha, and Lubricating oils among other crude oil & petroleum. Because crude oil & petroleum moves in volume, even a modest per-unit duty gap aggregates into a number that decides sourcing strategy. For budgeting purposes: petroleum tariffs are near-zero; US gas prices primarily driven by global oil markets and refining capacity rather than import duties. Canada's trade profile leans toward crude oil petroleum, passenger vehicles, and lumber wood products, and it sits in North America. USMCA lets compliant Canada crude oil & petroleum skip the duty stack other origins pay (USMCA 0%, except Section 338 annex goods), provided rules of origin are satisfied. Germany (Europe) sends the United States largely passenger vehicles, industrial machinery, and pharmaceuticals. Germany trades under the EU bilateral framework, which shapes the duties on its crude oil & petroleum. Moving between North America and Europe changes more than duty, so treat the tariff saving as one input among several. Germany is surfaced as a credible alternative, not just the cheapest line — it is among the origins a US buyer of crude oil & petroleum could realistically qualify. The figures here reflect the rules in force today; in a year of frequent revisions, the value is in re-running them as policy moves, which this site is built to do.
Anchor your own volume to these tiers: $53 at $50,000, $264 at $250,000, $1,055 at $1,000,000, and about $105 at $100,000. The comparison is generated by running the same inputs through the tariff engine for each origin, which keeps everything but the duty layers equal. 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. Read the $105 as a transition budget — if re-sourcing to Germany costs less than the annual saving, it pays back inside a year. Diligence on Germany is commercial, not regulatory: supplier capacity, MOQ, tooling and re-qualification cost — the duty advantage itself is already settled above. Lock the comparison to a quote date; a surcharge added or lifted can change the ranking between negotiation and purchase order. Use the Tariff Savings Finder to test your real numbers and see alternatives beyond Germany.
At $100,000 of annual import value, switching from Canada to Germany saves an estimated $105 in duties and fees, because the effective tariff rate falls from 10.1% to 10%. 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.
Germany-origin crude oil & petroleum is assessed a 0.1% Most-Favoured-Nation base duty and a 9.9% forced-labor Section 301 duty, for an effective 10% duty rate before the Merchandise Processing Fee ($36.55) and Harbor Maintenance Fee ($13.19).
Canada carries an effective 10.1% rate versus 10% for Germany. 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 .
