Sourcing comparison · Home Textiles
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 | $19,254 |
| $250,000 | $96,269 |
| $1,000,000 | $385,075 |
Savings scale linearly with volume. Enter your exact figure to model it precisely.
Calculate your exact volume →A home textiles importer's margin increasingly turns on a single field on the entry: country of origin. At 46.5%, China sits well above Taiwan's 10%; on $100,000 of annual buying that difference is around $38,508. Where a competitor's margin erodes on the same tariff, a buyer who re-sources keeps the difference. 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. A China origin attracts a 9% Most-Favoured-Nation base duty, a 25% Section 301 surcharge, and a 12.5% forced-labor Section 301 duty on its home textiles, an effective 46.5% once the $49.74 in processing fees are added. Taiwan-made goods carry a 9% Most-Favoured-Nation base duty and a 1% forced-labor Section 301 duty on its home textiles, an effective 10% once the $49.74 in processing fees are added. Because Section 301 adds 25% to China entries and nothing to Taiwan, that single measure accounts for most of the gap between the two stacks. Processing and harbor fees apply identically whichever country ships the goods ($49.74 here), confirming the saving is pure duty, not fee. Subtract one stack from the other and $3,850.75 per $10,000 shipment separates the two origins. Multiply across your volume and it is near $9,627 for $25,000 and about $38,508 for $100,000 a year. A buyer placing $25,000 orders sees about $9,627 of avoidable duty on each one.
home textiles — Bed sheets, Towels, Curtains, Blankets, Pillows, Tablecloths, and Bath mats and similar goods — falls under HTS 63. Because home textiles moves in volume, even a modest per-unit duty gap aggregates into a number that decides sourcing strategy. Home textile tariffs raise costs for consumers and hospitality businesses purchasing bedding, towels, and household linens. China, in Asia-Pacific, ships the US mainly consumer electronics, computers servers, and clothing garments. China trades without a special US agreement, so column-1 rates and every surcharge apply to its home textiles in full. Taiwan (Asia-Pacific) sends the United States largely semiconductors chips, computers servers, and consumer electronics. Taiwan trades under a bilateral arrangement that sets a fixed rate on home textiles alongside the standard duty layers. With both origins in Asia-Pacific, freight lanes and transit times are broadly similar, so duty is the cleanest variable to compare. Taiwan clears this category at a structurally lower rate than China, 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 home textiles rather than a footnote.
Where Taiwan is a viable supplier, expect roughly $38,508 at $100,000, rising to about $96,269 at $250,000 and $385,075 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 Taiwan is smaller than the duty saving, the switch still wins on net landed cost. Before acting, confirm the Taiwan 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. Because rates move, treat this as a point-in-time read and re-check before committing — new proclamations and bilateral deals can shift the stack with little notice. Open the Tariff Savings Finder to rank every feasible origin for your specific volume.
At $100,000 of annual import value, switching from China to Taiwan saves an estimated $38,508 in duties and fees, because the effective tariff rate falls from 46.5% 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.
Taiwan-origin home textiles is assessed a 9% Most-Favoured-Nation base duty and a 1% forced-labor Section 301 duty, for an effective 10% duty rate before the Merchandise Processing Fee ($36.55) and Harbor Maintenance Fee ($13.19).
China carries an effective 46.5% rate versus 10% for Taiwan. The gap is driven mainly by the 25% Section 301 surcharge that applies to Chinese-origin goods and stacks on top of every other layer.
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 .
