# UK Landed Cost Intelligence (`tryva/uk-landed-cost-api`) Actor

Turn product/cart + origin + value + shipping into UK commodity-code candidates, MFN duty baseline, VAT estimate, landed cost, confidence, and warnings.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/tryva/uk-landed-cost-api.md
- **Developed by:** [smile flow](https://apify.com/tryva) (community)
- **Categories:** E-commerce
- **Stats:** 1 total users, 0 monthly users, 0.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
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## Pricing

from $10.00 / 1,000 landed cost estimates

This Actor is paid per event and usage. You are charged both the fixed price for specific events and for Apify platform usage.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## UK Landed Cost Intelligence API

UK-only e-commerce landed-cost decision API for goods imported into Great Britain.

### What it does

Input a cart/product description, country of origin, value and logistics costs. The API returns:

- official UK commodity-code candidates;
- an MFN customs-duty baseline from the UK Global Tariff;
- import-VAT estimate where the normal import regime applies;
- landed-cost estimate in GBP;
- confidence, evidence and warnings;
- `NEED_MORE_INFO` instead of silently guessing when classification or tax treatment is not sufficiently determined.

This is deliberately not a generic tariff lookup. It combines product classification assistance, tariff evidence, valuation logic and cart-level cost calculation.

### V1 scope

- Destination: Great Britain only (England, Scotland and Wales).
- Currency: GBP only.
- Commodity candidates: official UK Global Tariff commodity descriptions.
- Customs duty: current measure type 103 (Third Country Duty / MFN), filtered to Erga Omnes (geographical area 1011), no automatic special additional-code treatment.
- Preferential origin rates are not automatically claimed.
- Simple ad-valorem duty expressions can be calculated automatically.
- Non-ad-valorem, conditional, quota, additional-code, anti-dumping, excise and special-procedure cases return warnings or require review.
- Consignments at or below £135 use the current low-value duty-relief path only when they are non-excise. Checkout VAT must be supplied to produce a complete low-value landed-cost result.
- Imports above £135 require a product-specific VAT rate per line. V1 does not silently assume the 20% standard rate because reduced and zero-rated goods exist.
- The published UK reform removing the £135 customs-duty relief has a future operative date to be appointed. V1 must be updated when the new regime takes effect.

### Endpoints

- `GET /`
- `GET /health`
- `GET /v1/tariff/status`
- `GET /v1/tariff/{commodity_code}`
- `POST /v1/classify`
- `POST /v1/landed-cost/estimate`
- `POST /v1/landed-cost/batch`

### Main source

Department for Business and Trade / UK Global Tariff:

- Commodity hierarchy: DBT `commodities-report` from the newest coherent recent dataset version.
- Measures: DBT `measures-on-declarable-commodities` pinned to the same concrete dataset version.
- The daily sync falls back from an incompletely published `latest` version instead of mixing data from different tariff versions.
- Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0.

VAT and valuation logic is based on HMRC / GOV.UK guidance. Because standard, reduced and zero rates exist, V1 requires the caller to supply the product-specific VAT rate for imports above £135 rather than inventing a default. For low-value e-commerce consignments, the caller supplies checkout VAT when applicable.

### Important

This product provides estimates and decision-support signals. It does not constitute customs, tax or legal advice, and it does not make a binding tariff classification.

A commodity candidate is not automatically treated as a declaration-ready classification. If no commodity code is supplied, the API returns candidates and `NEED_MORE_INFO`.

# Actor input Schema

## Actor input object example

```json
{}
```

# Actor output Schema

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("tryva/uk-landed-cost-api").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("tryva/uk-landed-cost-api").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{}' |
apify call tryva/uk-landed-cost-api --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,tryva/uk-landed-cost-api"
        }
    }
}

```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/HyfX7ZvROewDNquwa/builds/ws5ea79oVz4HXUYem/openapi.json