Sourcing comparison · Olive Oil & Cooking Oils
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 | $5,275 |
| $250,000 | $26,375 |
| $1,000,000 | $105,500 |
Savings scale linearly with volume. Enter your exact figure to model it precisely.
Calculate your exact volume →Sourcing olive oil & cooking oils is now a tariff decision as much as a supplier decision. Goods from Malaysia clear at an effective 13.5%, while Tunisia clears the same category at 3.5% — about $10,550 a year at $100,000 of imports. Where a competitor's margin erodes on the same tariff, a buyer who re-sources keeps the difference. 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 Malaysia, the goods face a 3.5% Most-Favoured-Nation base duty and a 10% forced-labor Section 301 duty on its olive oil & cooking oils, an effective 13.5% once the $49.74 in processing fees are added. Tunisia-made goods carry a 3.5% Most-Favoured-Nation base duty on its olive oil & cooking oils, an effective 3.5% once the $49.74 in processing fees are added. The $49.74 in processing and harbor fees is the same on both sides, leaving the duty layers as the only mover of the gap. Subtract one stack from the other and $1,055.00 per $10,000 shipment separates the two origins. Multiply across your volume and it is near $2,638 for $25,000 and about $10,550 for $100,000 a year. A buyer placing $25,000 orders sees about $2,638 of avoidable duty on each one.
The category, HTS 1507, 1508, 1509, 1510, 1511, 1512, 1513, 1514, 1515, takes in Extra virgin olive oil, Olive oil blends, Sunflower oil, Palm oil, Canola oil, Soybean oil, and Coconut oil among other olive oil & cooking oils. The US imports olive oil & cooking oils at scale, so the origin mix for this category is unusually sensitive to tariff policy. For budgeting purposes: cooking oils pay no Section 122 surcharge — it lapsed to 0% on July 24, 2026 — so consumer prices are primarily driven by global commodity markets and shipping costs. Malaysia's trade profile leans toward consumer electronics, semiconductors chips, and rubber, and it sits in Asia-Pacific. Malaysia trades without a special US agreement, so column-1 rates and every surcharge apply to its olive oil & cooking oils in full. Tunisia, in Africa, ships the US mainly clothing garments, chemicals industrial compounds, and industrial machinery. Tunisia trades without a special US agreement, so column-1 rates and every surcharge apply to its olive oil & cooking oils in full. Spanning Asia-Pacific and Africa, the two lanes differ in freight and transit, so weigh those against the duty saving. A switch to Tunisia still hinges on capacity, certification and lead time, but the duty advantage is the part that is already quantified. With the US running its highest average tariff in decades, concentrated exposure to one high-duty origin is now a measurable annual cost rather than an abstract risk.
Anchor your own volume to these tiers: $5,275 at $50,000, $26,375 at $250,000, $105,500 at $1,000,000, and about $10,550 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 $10,550 as a transition budget — if re-sourcing to Tunisia costs less than the annual saving, it pays back inside a year. Diligence on Tunisia 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 Tunisia.
At $100,000 of annual import value, switching from Malaysia to Tunisia saves an estimated $10,550 in duties and fees, because the effective tariff rate falls from 13.5% to 3.5%. 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.
Tunisia-origin olive oil & cooking oils is assessed a 3.5% Most-Favoured-Nation base duty, for an effective 3.5% duty rate before the Merchandise Processing Fee ($36.55) and Harbor Maintenance Fee ($13.19).
Malaysia carries an effective 13.5% rate versus 3.5% for Tunisia. 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 .
