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LANDED COST

Specialty Definition: LANDED COST

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Business

In reference to imported goods, the sum of the cost, insurance, freight price and all other charges including import duty. Source: European Union. (references)

Shipping

The total cost of a good to a buyer, including the cost of transportation. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: LANDED COST

SubjectTopicQuote

Business

Imports of tubular steel into Argentina pay an import tariff of 21% in the case of seamless pipe, and 19% in the case of seamed pipe. Techint's local prices precisely track changes in international prices, remaining always fractionally below the landed cost of competing imports. (references)

The components of the total import duty include a basic duty, a surcharge on basic duty, an additional duty (popularly called countervailing duty), and a special additional customs duty. The Cost Insurance Freight (CIF)price plus the duties are used to arrive at the landed cost of a product. (references)

The U.S. share is expected to grow at an average rate of 8 percent per year. Imports from Italy and South East Asia aggressively compete with American furniture in price due to their lower landed cost. Nonetheless, Saudi consumers continue to favor U.S. furniture because of the stable Dollar-Riyal exchange rate, and the perception of U.S. quality and durability. (references)

Economic History

Japan

However, landed cost is not the only consideration for a U.S. firm interested in exporting to Japan. (references)

Nigeria

The bulk of Nigeria's rice imports comes from Southeast Asia because such imports enjoy a much lower landed cost compared to U.S. rice. (references)

Uk

Prices should be based on the landed cost, including value added tax (VAT), which is payable on entry into the EU. The basic formula is cost, insurance, freight and duty, plus VAT at 17.5 percent levied on the aggregate value. (references)

Political Economy

PHILIPPINES

E.O. 776 requires that pharmaceutical firms purchase semi-synthetic antibiotics from a specific local company, unless they can demonstrate that the landed cost of imported semi-synthetic antibiotics is at least 20 percent less than that produced by the local firm. (references)

Trade

Israel

The VAT is levied on the CIF landed cost plus purchase tax. (references)

Italy

The average Italian business representative can then usually determine the charges for customs, taxes, and local transportation to arrive at the final landed cost to importer. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Expression: LANDED COST

Expression using "LANDED COST": price landed cost. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: LANDED COST

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

landed cost

8
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: LANDED COST

Language Translations for "LANDED COST"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

landningspris (price landed cost), pris i land (price landed cost). (various references)

   

French

  

prix débarqué (price landed cost), prix au débarquement (price landed cost), prix quai (price landed cost). (various references)

   

German

  

Anlandepreis (price landed cost). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

τιμή εκφορτωθέντος εμπορεύματος (price landed cost). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

andedlay ostcay

   

Spanish

  

precio en muelle (price landed cost), precio al desembarque (price landed cost). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: LANDED COST

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-d-d-e-l-n-o-s-t"

-2 letters: celadons, cladodes, endocast, lactones, tacnodes.

-3 letters: acnodes, calends, candled, candles, cantles, castled, celadon, centals, cladode, coasted, coddles, coldest, coleads, daltons, dandles, deacons, decants, dentals, descant, docents, donated, donates, etalons, lactone, lactose, lancets, located, locates, noddles, octanes, sandlot, scalded, scanted, scolded, slanted, solaced, solated, staddle, tacnode, talcose, taloned, toddles, tolanes.

-4 letters: acnode, addles, aldose.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-d-d-e-l-n-o-s-t"
 

+2 letters: consolidated.

 

+4 letters: reconsolidated, unconsolidated.

 

+5 letters: coldheartedness, nonconsolidated.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: LANDED COST


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4C 41 4E 44 45 44      43 4F 53 54

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001100 01000001 01001110 01000100 01000101 01000100 00100000 01000011 01001111 01010011 01010100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#76 &#65 &#78 &#68 &#69 &#68 &#32 &#67 &#79 &#83 &#84

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004C 0041 004E 0044 0045 0044      0043 004F 0053 0054

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

463548383938237495354

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INDEX

1. Quotations: Non-fiction
2. Expressions
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Translations: Modern
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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