Hello and thank you for using the Border Solutions Duty & VAT Calculator. I wanted to provide a few quick tips to help you get started.

BS is built using the serverless framework on AWS and can scale to accommodate your needs. Most API calls should be under 200ms.

Duty and VAT rates are updated monthly. Currently Border Solutions supports three countries. Australia, Canada and Mexico.

Please Note that Canada has a Provincial Sales Tax (PST). Canada requests require an extra field that was difficult to enter into the Mashape/Rapid API documentation. To get quotes for Canada you will need to also pass in the Province with the following syntax. {“shipToProvince”: “ON”} with “ON” being Ontario.

For non Canada requests simply do not send in the “shipToProvince” field.

Full example of a Canada request is below.

{
“shipToCountry”: “CA”,
“shipFromCountry”: “US”,
“shipToProvince”: “ON”,
“hscode”: “640411”,
“cost”: “5898.4”,
“freight”: “25”,
“insurance”: “5.32”,
“sku”:“testSku”
}