Guide
Finding your duty rate.
Nobody can tell you what duty you will pay without knowing your tariff line, your destination and which preference scheme applies. All three are knowable in an afternoon, and two of them are changing for Indonesian goods inside the next eighteen months.
Why there are no numbers on this page.
A duty rate belongs to a tariff line and a destination, and a website cannot know either. Worse, a rate printed today stays on the page after it stops being true, and somebody prices a container against it. Every sourcing site that quotes duty percentages is doing this, and the ones that were right when written are the most dangerous.
What is stable enough to publish is the method and the dated changes. Both are below.
Five steps to your own number.
- 01
Get the tariff classification right first
Everything downstream depends on it. The same physical goods can sit in different lines depending on processing, presentation and composition, and the difference between two plausible lines is often the whole duty. Get it from your own customs authority or your broker in writing rather than from the supplier.
- 02
Look the line up in your own market's tariff tool
The European Union publishes Access2Markets, which gives the duty, the preferential rates and the product requirements for a given code and origin. Most other markets run something equivalent. This is the only figure worth acting on and it takes minutes.1
- 03
Check which preference scheme applies to Indonesia
A duty rate is meaningless without knowing whether a preference applies and what proof it needs. For Indonesian goods that is currently either a general scheme, a trade agreement, or nothing, and the answer differs by destination and is changing.4
- 04
Find out what proof of origin the scheme wants
Each preference has its own document. A registered exporter statement, a certificate on a particular form, or a declaration on the invoice. The goods qualify or they do not, and without the right paper in the right form the preferential rate is simply not applied.
- 05
Price the landed cost, not the duty
Duty is one line. Value added tax on the duty-inclusive value, port and handling charges, broker fees, inland delivery and any inspection all sit alongside it. Buyers who compare origins on duty alone regularly pick the more expensive one.
Two dated changes.
Indonesia leaves the EU general scheme of preferences on 1 January 2027. The Commission delegated regulation removing Indonesia from the relevant annexes applies from that date, so goods that currently enter under that scheme will need a different basis or pay the standard rate.2
The EU and Indonesia have concluded a comprehensive economic partnership agreement. Where it applies to your line it replaces the old basis with a different one, with its own rules of origin and its own proof. Whether the net effect on your product is better or worse depends entirely on the line, which is the point of step two.3
Questions buyers ask.
Can my supplier tell me the duty?
They can tell you what other customers have paid, which is a different thing and often a stale one. Duty is a matter for your own customs authority, on your own classification, and the supplier has no visibility of either. Ask them for the tariff line they use on the export declaration and check it yourself.
Who decides the tariff classification?
Your customs authority, ultimately, and you are responsible for declaring it correctly. Most authorities issue binding rulings on classification, which cost a little time and remove the risk entirely. For a product you will import repeatedly, that is worth doing once.
What happens if the origin proof is wrong?
The preferential rate is refused and the standard rate applies, usually with the difference collected afterwards. Where the error looks deliberate it gets more serious than that. The proof requirement is specific to the scheme, so the first question is always which scheme you are claiming under.
Does the January 2027 change affect me now?
It affects contracts you are signing now for delivery after that date, and it affects any pricing you have built on the current basis. Check your own line against both the current position and the position afterwards before you commit to a price for next year.
Do you handle duty for buyers?
No, and be careful with anyone who says they do. Duty is assessed on the importer in the destination country, which is you or your broker. What we do is make sure the origin documents leaving Indonesia are the ones your scheme actually requires, because that is where the preference is won or lost.
Not sure which origin proof you need?
Tell us the product and the destination. We will say which form applies and make sure the exporter issues it correctly.
Sources
- 1Access2Markets, duty rates and import requirements by product and country. European Commission. Checked 3 August 2026.
- 2Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2025/1951. EUR-Lex. Checked 3 August 2026.
- 3Commission presents Council with Indonesia agreements, 29 June 2026. European Commission, DG Trade. Checked 3 August 2026.
- 4Generalised Scheme of Preferences. European Commission, DG Trade. Checked 3 August 2026.