Sourcing comparison · Nutritional Supplements
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 | $2,374 |
| $250,000 | $11,869 |
| $1,000,000 | $47,475 |
Savings scale linearly with volume. Enter your exact figure to model it precisely.
Calculate your exact volume →Buyers comparing China and Taiwan for nutritional supplements are really comparing two very different duty stacks. Switch the origin from China (14.5%) to Taiwan (10%) and an importer reclaims about $4,748 for every $100,000 purchased. The importers who win this cycle are the ones treating country of origin as a number to optimise, not a given. The breakdown below itemises both duty stacks so the figure is auditable, not asserted.
Consider what each country's goods actually face at the border. Sourced from China, the goods face a 2% Most-Favoured-Nation base duty and a 12.5% forced-labor Section 301 duty on its nutritional supplements, an effective 14.5% once the $49.74 in processing fees are added. Taiwan-made goods carry a 2% Most-Favoured-Nation base duty and an 8% forced-labor Section 301 duty on its nutritional supplements, an effective 10% once the $49.74 in processing fees are added. Processing and harbor fees apply identically whichever country ships the goods ($49.74 here), confirming the saving is pure duty, not fee. The arithmetic difference between the stacks is $474.75 per $10,000 entry, all of it in the duty layers since the processing fees are origin-blind. Multiply across your volume and it is near $1,187 for $25,000 and about $4,748 for $100,000 a year. Per $25,000 order, $1,187 separates the two origins — small per shipment, compounding fast across a program.
Classified in HTS chapter 2106, 3004, nutritional supplements spans products like Vitamin C tablets, Protein powder, Fish oil capsules, Probiotics, Multivitamins, Herbal extracts, and Sports supplements. Demand for nutritional supplements is broad and price-sensitive, which is exactly why a duty wedge of this size reshapes who can supply the US market competitively. In practical terms, vitamins, minerals, protein powders, dietary supplements, herbal extracts, omega-3 fish oil, probiotics, and sports nutrition products in any form. China's trade profile leans toward consumer electronics, computers servers, and clothing garments, and it sits in Asia-Pacific. China has no agreement to soften the stack, so its nutritional supplements carries the full column-1 plus surcharge load. Taiwan (Asia-Pacific) sends the United States largely semiconductors chips, computers servers, and consumer electronics. Taiwan's bilateral deal sets a fixed rate on nutritional supplements, a structurally different stack from origins without one. Because both sit in Asia-Pacific, a switch barely changes the freight picture and mostly changes the duty bill. Taiwan is surfaced as a credible alternative, not just the cheapest line — it is among the origins a US buyer of nutritional supplements could realistically qualify. Because surcharges have stacked rates well above their statutory base, country of origin has become a first-order cost driver for nutritional supplements rather than a footnote.
Anchor your own volume to these tiers: $2,374 at $50,000, $11,869 at $250,000, $47,475 at $1,000,000, and about $4,748 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 $4,748 as a transition budget — if re-sourcing to Taiwan costs less than the annual saving, it pays back inside a year. Diligence on Taiwan is commercial, not regulatory: supplier capacity, MOQ, tooling and re-qualification cost — the duty advantage itself is already settled above. Time the switch with the policy calendar in mind — the post-Section-122 picture can favour a different origin entirely. Use the Tariff Savings Finder to test your real numbers and see alternatives beyond Taiwan.
At $100,000 of annual import value, switching from China to Taiwan saves an estimated $4,748 in duties and fees, because the effective tariff rate falls from 14.5% 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 nutritional supplements is assessed a 2% Most-Favoured-Nation base duty and an 8% 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 14.5% rate versus 10% for Taiwan. 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 .
