Sourcing comparison · Sporting Goods
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 →The cheapest factory for sporting goods is no longer always the cheapest landed cost — tariffs have reshuffled the math. Cambodia carries roughly 13% in duties and fees against 3% for Myanmar, a spread worth near $10,550 on $100,000 of annual volume. Two suppliers can quote the same factory price and still land at very different costs once Customs is done. Read on for the full stack comparison, the policy reasons behind the gap, and a scaling table for your own volume.
The gap is easiest to see by walking each origin's tariffs in turn. Cambodia-made goods carry a 3% Most-Favoured-Nation base duty and a 10% forced-labor Section 301 duty on its sporting goods, an effective 13% once the $49.74 in processing fees are added. A Myanmar origin attracts a 3% Most-Favoured-Nation base duty on its sporting goods, an effective 3% 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. The per-shipment gap comes to $1,055.00 on $10,000 of goods — a clean read on the 10% rate difference. Across a year that is roughly $2,638 on a $25,000 purchase order and about $10,550 on a $100,000 program. Per $25,000 order, $2,638 separates the two origins — small per shipment, compounding fast across a program.
Sporting Goods (HTS 9506, 9507) covers items such as Exercise bikes, Treadmills, Gym equipment, Bicycles, Fishing rods, Camping gear, and Team sports equipment. Because sporting goods moves in volume, even a modest per-unit duty gap aggregates into a number that decides sourcing strategy. Exercise equipment, fitness machines, sporting goods, outdoor recreation equipment, fishing gear, camping equipment, and related sporting accessories. Based in Asia-Pacific, Cambodia is best known to US importers for clothing garments, footwear, and furniture. Cambodia has no agreement to soften the stack, so its sporting goods carries the full column-1 plus surcharge load. From Asia-Pacific, Myanmar's top US-bound categories include clothing garments, food, and lumber wood products. Absent a trade deal, Myanmar's sporting goods is assessed standard duties and whatever surcharges apply. Because both sit in Asia-Pacific, a switch barely changes the freight picture and mostly changes the duty bill. For a buyer committed to Cambodia, Myanmar is a concrete diversification target whose tariff math is settled and whose remaining diligence is commercial. 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.
The headline is $10,550 at $100,000; because the rate gap is fixed, larger programs scale cleanly — $5,275, $26,375, and $105,500 at $50,000, $250,000, and $1,000,000. The numbers come straight from the landed-cost engine, with product cost and shipping fixed across both origins to isolate the tariff difference. 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. Subtract any per-unit premium Myanmar charges from the duty saving to get the true net benefit before deciding. A quick checklist for the Myanmar option: match the HTS classification, get a quote that itemises duty apart from freight, and check for any antidumping or countervailing order on your item. 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. Model your exact volume and compare further origins in the interactive Tariff Savings Finder.
At $100,000 of annual import value, switching from Cambodia to Myanmar saves an estimated $10,550 in duties and fees, because the effective tariff rate falls from 13% to 3%. 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.
Myanmar-origin sporting goods is assessed a 3% Most-Favoured-Nation base duty, for an effective 3% duty rate before the Merchandise Processing Fee ($36.55) and Harbor Maintenance Fee ($13.19).
Cambodia carries an effective 13% rate versus 3% for Myanmar. 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 .
