Sourcing comparison · Seafood
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 →If your seafood currently ships from Vietnam, the duty bill is worth a second look. The effective rate falls from 14.5% on Vietnam shipments to 12% on India shipments — close to $2,638 per $100,000 of imports each year. Origin is one of the few cost levers a US importer controls outright, and it has rarely mattered more. Read on for the full stack comparison, the policy reasons behind the gap, and a scaling table for your own volume.
The duty layers tell the whole story of the gap. On the Vietnam side, Customs applies a 2% Most-Favoured-Nation base duty and a 12.5% forced-labor Section 301 duty on its seafood, an effective 14.5% once the $49.74 in processing fees are added. A India origin attracts a 2% Most-Favoured-Nation base duty and a 10% forced-labor Section 301 duty on its seafood, an effective 12% once the $49.74 in processing fees are added. Two charges are origin-blind — the MPF and HMF, together $49.74 on this entry — which is why the entire difference lives in the duty layers. That leaves a $263.75 gap on every $10,000 of goods, driven entirely by the 2.5% spread in effective duty rate. A $25,000 order therefore differs by about $659, and a $100,000 year by roughly $2,638. A buyer placing $25,000 orders sees about $659 of avoidable duty on each one.
Seafood (HTS 03, 1604, 1605) covers items such as Shrimp, Salmon, Tuna, Tilapia, Crab, Lobster, and Processed fish fillets. For seafood, where buyers reorder frequently, the duty rate compounds into one of the largest controllable costs on the P&L. Seafood carried a Section 122 carve-out before the surcharge lapsed to 0% sitewide on July 24, 2026. USMCA-qualifying Canadian and Mexican seafood enters at 0% duty. From Asia-Pacific, Vietnam's top US-bound categories include consumer electronics, clothing garments, and footwear. Vietnam 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 seafood stack is built. From Asia-Pacific, India's top US-bound categories include pharmaceutical ingredients, generic drugs, and clothing garments. India trades under a bilateral arrangement that sets a fixed rate on seafood 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. For a buyer committed to Vietnam, India is a concrete diversification target whose tariff math is settled and whose remaining diligence is commercial. Sourcing diversification has shifted from resilience theatre to margin necessity, and a documented second source like India is how buyers act on it.
For $100,000 a year of seafood, the move from Vietnam to India is worth about $2,638, scaling to $1,319 at $50,000, $6,594 at $250,000, and $26,375 at $1,000,000. 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. Treat the annual saving as the ceiling on switching cost: as long as moving to India costs less than that, the change is accretive. Request parallel quotes from your Vietnam incumbent and a vetted India source, then compare landed cost with the duty gap held constant. The saving is current today; given the pace of 2026 revisions, verify it again at contract signing. Run your own volume — and a post-Section-122 view — through the interactive Tariff Savings Finder.
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 14.5% to 12%. 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 seafood is assessed a 2% Most-Favoured-Nation base duty and a 10% forced-labor Section 301 duty, for an effective 12% duty rate before the Merchandise Processing Fee ($36.55) and Harbor Maintenance Fee ($13.19).
Vietnam carries an effective 14.5% rate versus 12% 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 .
