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 | $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 home textiles is now a tariff decision as much as a supplier decision. Goods from Vietnam clear at an effective 21.5%, while India clears the same category at 19% — about $2,638 a year at $100,000 of imports. 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.
Consider what each country's goods actually face at the border. Shipped out of Vietnam, the product is hit with a 9% Most-Favoured-Nation base duty and a 12.5% forced-labor Section 301 duty on its home textiles, an effective 21.5% once the $49.74 in processing fees are added. On the India side, Customs applies a 9% Most-Favoured-Nation base duty and a 10% forced-labor Section 301 duty on its home textiles, an effective 19% 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 $263.75 per $10,000 shipment separates the two origins. Multiply across your volume and it is near $659 for $25,000 and about $2,638 for $100,000 a year. Scaled to a single $25,000 PO, the gap is near $659, repeated on every reorder.
Classified in HTS chapter 63, home textiles spans products like Bed sheets, Towels, Curtains, Blankets, Pillows, Tablecloths, and Bath mats. Because home textiles moves in volume, even a modest per-unit duty gap aggregates into a number that decides sourcing strategy. For budgeting purposes: home textile tariffs raise costs for consumers and hospitality businesses purchasing bedding, towels, and household linens. Vietnam (Asia-Pacific) sends the United States largely consumer electronics, clothing garments, and footwear. Vietnam's bilateral deal sets a fixed rate on home textiles, a structurally different stack from origins without one. India (Asia-Pacific) sends the United States largely pharmaceutical ingredients, generic drugs, and clothing garments. India trades under a negotiated bilateral rate that applies alongside the base and Section 232/301 layers, with Section 122 at 0% since its 2026-07-24 lapse — reshaping how its home textiles stack is built. Because both sit in Asia-Pacific, a switch barely changes the freight picture and mostly changes the duty bill. The recommendation is filtered to feasible suppliers, so India appears because it plausibly makes home textiles, not merely because its rate is low. 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.
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 India costs less than the annual saving, it pays back inside a year. Diligence on India is commercial, not regulatory: supplier capacity, MOQ, tooling and re-qualification cost — the duty advantage itself is already settled above. 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. Use the Tariff Savings Finder to test your real numbers and see alternatives beyond India.
At $100,000 of annual import value, switching from Vietnam to India saves an estimated $2,638 in duties and fees, because the effective tariff rate falls from 21.5% to 19%. 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.
India-origin home textiles is assessed a 9% Most-Favoured-Nation base duty and a 10% forced-labor Section 301 duty, for an effective 19% duty rate before the Merchandise Processing Fee ($36.55) and Harbor Maintenance Fee ($13.19).
Vietnam carries an effective 21.5% rate versus 19% for India. 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 .
