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 | $1,319 |
| $250,000 | $6,594 |
| $1,000,000 | $26,375 |
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. At 12.6%, Saudi Arabia sits well above Canada's 10.1%; on $100,000 of annual buying that difference is around $2,638. 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. Shipped out of Saudi Arabia, the product is hit with a 0.1% Most-Favoured-Nation base duty and a 12.5% forced-labor Section 301 duty on its crude oil & petroleum, an effective 12.6% once the $49.74 in processing fees are added. From Canada, the entry is assessed 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. Because the MPF and HMF ($49.74 combined) track customs value rather than origin, they wash out of the comparison entirely. That leaves a $263.75 gap on every $10,000 of goods, driven entirely by the 2.5% spread in effective duty rate. That same per-dollar gap is about $659 on a $25,000 order and $2,638 on $100,000 of annual volume. Per $25,000 order, $659 separates the two origins — small per shipment, compounding fast across a program.
Classified in HTS chapter 2709, 2710, crude oil & petroleum spans products like Crude oil, Gasoline, Diesel fuel, Jet fuel, Fuel oil, Naphtha, and Lubricating oils. The US imports crude oil & petroleum at scale, so the origin mix for this category is unusually sensitive to tariff policy. For budgeting purposes: petroleum tariffs are near-zero; US gas prices primarily driven by global oil markets and refining capacity rather than import duties. Saudi Arabia's trade profile leans toward crude oil petroleum, natural gas lng, and chemicals industrial compounds, and it sits in Middle East. Saudi Arabia has no agreement to soften the stack, so its crude oil & petroleum carries the full column-1 plus surcharge load. Canada (North America) sends the United States largely crude oil petroleum, passenger vehicles, and lumber wood products. 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. Spanning Middle East and North America, the two lanes differ in freight and transit, so weigh those against the duty saving. Canada clears this category at a structurally lower rate than Saudi Arabia, an edge that persists across order cycles rather than a spot-price blip. Because surcharges have stacked rates well above their statutory base, country of origin has become a first-order cost driver for crude oil & petroleum rather than a footnote.
Anchor your own volume to these tiers: $1,319 at $50,000, $6,594 at $250,000, $26,375 at $1,000,000, and about $2,638 at $100,000. 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. Read the $2,638 as a transition budget — if re-sourcing to Canada costs less than the annual saving, it pays back inside a year. Diligence on Canada is commercial, not regulatory: supplier capacity, MOQ, tooling and re-qualification cost — the duty advantage itself is already settled above. Re-run the figures close to your decision: the duty landscape for crude oil & petroleum has shifted repeatedly through the year. Use the Tariff Savings Finder to test your real numbers and see alternatives beyond Canada.
At $100,000 of annual import value, switching from Saudi Arabia to Canada saves an estimated $2,638 in duties and fees, because the effective tariff rate falls from 12.6% to 10.1%. 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.
Canada-origin crude oil & petroleum is assessed a 0.1% Most-Favoured-Nation base duty and a 10% forced-labor Section 301 duty, for an effective 10.1% duty rate before the Merchandise Processing Fee ($36.55) and Harbor Maintenance Fee ($13.19).
Saudi Arabia carries an effective 12.6% rate versus 10.1% for Canada. 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 .
