Tollmark
About
Why this exists, who runs it, and how it pays for itself.
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Why this exists
Two rule changes inside twelve months made cross-border shopping confusing for almost everybody. The United States ended its $800 de minimis exemption in August 2025, so low-value imports are now assessed from the first dollar. The European Union ended its €150 customs-duty exemption on 1 July 2026, replacing it with a per-item duty keyed to commodity code.
The result is that a question people never used to ask — will this parcel be charged, and how much? — now has a different answer than it did last year, in a different way in every country. The existing answers online are mostly out of date, unsourced, or both.
What makes this different
Most duty calculators show you a number. Tollmark shows you the number, the legal instrument it comes from, and the date it took effect — and keeps the history, so you can see what changed and when.
That leads to some deliberately awkward behaviour:
- Where we have no sourced rate, we say so instead of estimating. A plausible-looking guess is worse than an honest gap.
- Where two commodity codes under one heading disagree, we publish neither, because the heading has no single true rate.
- Every correction is logged publicly and dated in the corrections log.
How the figures are produced is set out in full on the methodology page, and every upstream source is named on the sources page.
Who runs it
- Editor
- Tom Smith
- Background
- Runs Norbin AS, the company that operates Tollmark, and reviews every figure and editorial note published here.
- Contact
- post@tollmark.com
- Based in
- Norway
How it is funded
Tollmark is free to use and carries display advertising. Some pages also link to freight, customs-software and currency services, and those links may earn a commission. Neither influences a published rate: rates come out of a database fed by official sources, and no advertiser or partner can change one.
Where a link is commercial, it is marked as such. If that ever stops being true, tell us.
Independence
Tollmark is not affiliated with any customs authority or government body. See the disclaimer.