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HTS code plus country of origin to landed cost under Sections 232 and 301 and the current reciprocal schedule, with the Federal Register or CSMS citation and a checked-on date.
Method
The schedule behind the tool is the 22-line, 9-origin table from the 2026 tariff schedule piece, checked against HTS 2026 Rev. 18 and the Federal Register on 2026-09-09. Each instrument (column 1 rate, Section 232 under Proclamations 11021 and 11032, the 2018 China Section 301 lists, the 2026 Section 301 forced-labor tariff) is applied to the declared customs value and summed. Annex III articles carry the 15% all-in cap through 2027-12-31 and revert to column 1 plus 25% on 2028-01-01; the entry-date switch shows both. IEEPA tariffs (struck down 2026-02-20) and the expired Section 122 surcharge are excluded.
Every input is mirrored to the URL so a scenario can be shared as a link. Where the schedule does not settle a question (CBP’s netting of the KORUS cap, the combined China rate) the Method block on the calculator says so.
Default assumptions come from the Public Bid-Tab Price Book. Pro subscribers can save inputs. Institutional seats get the underlying series.
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Fiber Laser Cutters: What a $500,000 Price Gap Buys
A Chinese 6 to 12 kW fiber laser sells for $45,000 to $85,000 FOB in December 2025 and lands at about $128,000 after the 41% duty stack, while federal buyers paid $645,000 to $1.75 million in 2025, a $504,000 gap to the cheapest award Open Factory's Equipment Price Benchmark itemizes.
Tariffs, September 2026: The Actual Schedule for Machinery and Electrical Gear
As of September 2026 a 2,500 kVA pad-mount transformer pays 25% US duty from every origin and 50% from China, while a low-voltage panel with its PLC pays 0% from Mexico, 10% from Germany, 12.5% from Japan and 40.2% from China, per Open Factory's Tariff Exposure Calculator.
SendCutSend: How a Bootstrapped Reno Shop Became a $1 Billion Parts Factory
SendCutSend cuts an aluminum bracket in 2 to 4 production days with no minimum quantity, has shipped more than 30 million parts to 300,000 customers from three US plants, and raised $110 million at a $1.01 billion valuation in May 2026. Open Factory's Lead-Time Monitor tracks the turnaround.
Modular Is Not Cheaper: A 50 MW Prefab Electrical Room, Line by Line
A prefabricated electrical room for a 50 MW datacenter is not cheaper: Open Factory's Datacenter MEP Cost Table lands the skid route at $3.51M per MW against $3.47M stick-built, 1% more, but 27 weeks faster at 95 weeks from power-block PO to energization against 122, as of August 2026.
The Recommended Spares List Is Where the Margin Hides
On public awards Open Factory can read, the spares line is 0.8% of a transformer award, 2% of a genset and 20% of a breaker buy, and the City of Ocala paid $40,197.50 per ABB R-Mag breaker in November 2023 and $44,499.75 in November 2025 with no second quote.
800 VDC Will Strand Your White-Space Frame Agreement
NVIDIA set a ship date for 800 VDC on August 11, 2026, with the MGX power rack due in the second half of 2026. Open Factory finds a five-year 415 V UPS and AC busway frame agreement puts 40 to 60% of its dollars into superseded SKUs.
How to Write an RFQ for Capital Equipment in 2026
An equipment RFQ in 2026 has to settle escalators, LDs, milestones and tariff refunds: the City of Ocala agreed $8,070,340 for two 105 MVA autotransformers in August 2023 and approved $9,170,340 for the same units on April 28, 2026, a $1.1 million PPI escalator, per Open Factory's Bid-Tab Price Book.
CloudNC and Limitless Labs: AI Is Coming for the CNC Programming Bottleneck
CloudNC and Limitless Labs raised $40 million between them from 16 June to 8 September 2026 to automate CNC programming for the 4,790 CNC tool programmers in America's 16,619 machine shops, and Open Factory's seat math shows a 50% CAM cut returns about $22,139 a year per programmer.
The R-454B Summer: What the Refrigerant Switch Did to Chiller Prices
A 20 lb cylinder of R-454B cost $345 in 2021 and $700 to $2,000 in July and August 2025, the switch raised Carrier chiller list prices 10% in March 2024 and March 2025, and Open Factory finds the 563 lb charge in a 500-ton chiller is 1.2% of the machine.
OFCI vs Design-Build: How Hyperscalers Buy Chillers and Colo Developers Do Not
Owner-furnished, contractor-installed chillers and CDUs for a 20 MW liquid-cooled hall cost $27.9 million against $32.8 million through the mechanical subcontract, a saving of $4.9 million or 14.9%, because OFCI strips a 15% subcontractor markup and 10% GC fee, per Open Factory's Datacenter MEP Cost Table as of June 2026.
Grainger's 2017 Confession: The Year a Distributor Admitted Its List Prices Were Fiction
On April 18, 2017, W.W. Grainger told investors its first quarter fell short because customers responded to across-the-board list price cuts and new web prices on about 450,000 SKUs, and US gross margin fell 1.7 points in one quarter, a reset Open Factory's Bid-Tab Price Book traces through 2026.
Reading a Switchgear Quote: The Eleven Line Items That Hide the Schedule
A medium-voltage switchgear quote has eleven line items and four of them move the delivery date more than the price. Riverside Public Utilities paid $2,561,551.88 for one 15 kV metal-clad lineup in June 2024 and it was still in the factory eighteen months later, per Open Factory's Bid-Tab Price Book.
The $306k Machine: A Record Half-Year With Fewer Units
US manufacturers ordered a record $3.44 billion of metalworking machinery in the first half of 2026 on 11,243 machines, 2.6% fewer than in the second half of 2025, so the average order rose to about $306,000 from $277,000, as tracked in Open Factory's Bid-Tab Price Book.
From 36 Weeks to Stock: The ControlLogix Lead-Time Cycle
Rockwell's own bulletin listed a ControlLogix 5580 controller at 35 calendar days on September 22, 2021 and 208 days on October 26, 2022, and Open Factory's Lead-Time Monitor, which holds eleven editions of that bulletin, now reads the PLC line at stock.
Grainger vs McMaster vs Amazon Business: A 50-SKU Price Basket
Open Factory priced the same 50 MRO items at six distributors on 10 September 2026: Fastenal's median web price was 126% above the cheapest storefront, McMaster-Carr's was 37% above, and Amazon Business was the floor, cheapest on 34 of 48 SKUs with a comparison.
A Robot Costs $61k. The Cell Costs $150k
North American buyers paid $61,198 per robot arm in 2025, but a working cell costs 1.9 to 2.4 times that, $113,336 to $144,432 for three common cobot cells priced line by line in Open Factory's Bid-Tab Price Book as of September 2026.
Who Gets the IEEPA Refund
The IEEPA refund goes to the importer of record, not the buyer who paid a surcharge, and CBP puts the pool at about $166 billion across 53 million entries and 330,000 importers as of March 2026. Open Factory's Tariff Exposure Calculator flags the refundable lines on every 2025 entry.
Five Majors Bought Their Way Into Liquid Cooling. Here Is the Price List
Five majors paid $16.3 billion of disclosed prices for liquid cooling companies in seventeen months, with Ecolab buying CoolIT for $4.75 billion at 29 times EBITDA on March 20, 2026 and Eaton closing Boyd Thermal at $9.5 billion and 22.5 times, per Open Factory's deal table.
Recips vs Turbines vs Fuel Cells for a 100 MW Bridge
A 100 MW bridge plant over five years costs $96 per MWh on solid oxide fuel cells, $104 on gas reciprocating engines and $112 on aeroderivative gas turbines at 85% utilization and $3.78/MMBtu, with first power in 17, 27 and 30 months, per Open Factory's MEP Cost Table in 2026.
Nox Metals: The Detroit Startup Cutting Aluminum Plate in 36 Hours
Nox Metals quotes saw-cut aluminum plate instantly and delivers in an average of 36 hours, against the 3 to 5 days a typical service center takes to quote, after an $11.5 million seed on 14 June 2026, and Open Factory's Lead-Time Monitor lists cut plate as its first raw material.
Chillers Are the 60-Week Problem
A water-cooled chiller over 1,000 tons quotes at 50 to 70 weeks in the United States as of May 22, 2026, an air-cooled machine over 500 tons at 40 to 60 weeks, and Census M3 puts HVAC unfilled orders at $18.6 billion in July 2026, per Open Factory's Lead-Time Monitor.
What a Haas VF-2 Really Costs in 2026
A new Haas VF-2 lists at $70,995, which is 35% of the roughly $172,523 net ten-year bill for a one-shift job shop once maintenance, one spindle, power, coolant and cutting tools are added, per Open Factory's Bid-Tab Price Book worked example as of September 2026.
Copper at $6.77: How a 50% Tariff Shows Up in a 200-Amp Panel
COMEX copper set a record $6.77 per pound on August 7, 2026, and Open Factory's panel math shows a 200-amp residential service that carried $270 of copper at 2024 prices now carries $440, about $30 of it the tariff expectation priced into COMEX.
1872, Foundational Industries and Hadrian: Three Blueprints for the Autonomous American Factory
Between July 2025 and August 2026, 1872, Foundational Industries and Hadrian raised $1.41 billion to build autonomous American factories: $15 million, $25 million and $1.37 billion respectively, with Hadrian's four plants totalling just under 3 million square feet. Open Factory's Lead-Time Monitor will track each one's delivered lead time.
Japan Is Eating the US Capex Boom
Japanese machine tool builders booked JPY 40.65 billion of North American orders in June 2026, up 44% from June 2025, and in the first half of 2026 US buyers sent them $1.29 billion of the $3.44 billion placed for metalworking machinery, 37 cents of every dollar, by Open Factory's arithmetic.
Who Bought the EV Plants' Machines
Companies cancelled, closed or downsized 61 US clean-energy projects worth $34.8 billion in 2025, but most was never built, and the EV plant machines that did reach the secondary market sold at 3% to 37% of reference value in the court records Open Factory read.
When a Megapack Beats a Static UPS
A 24 MW, 48 MWh block of twelve Tesla Megapack 2 XL units costs about $14.4 million installed at January 2026 prices, $10.1 million after the 30% storage credit, against about $17.5 million for the N+1 static UPS in a 20 MW hall, per Open Factory's Datacenter MEP Cost Table.
Rockwell's 250 Basis Points: How Tariffs Show Up in Your PLC Quote
Tariffs are 100 basis points of a Rockwell Automation bill in fiscal 2026, inside the 250 basis points of total price the company guided on its August 4, 2026 call, and Open Factory's Bid-Tab Price Book tracks the pass-through against the 150 basis points of underlying price.
Why Your Switchgear Costs 50% More Than in 2021
The BLS producer price index for switchgear stood at 394.8 in July 2026, 78% above January 2021, and medium-voltage switchgear is up 50% since 2021 per Wood Mackenzie. Open Factory's decomposition finds inputs explain 36 of the 78 points and margin the other 43.
Transformer Lead Times Hit 143 Weeks: Who Gets Delivered First
A generator step-up transformer ordered in the United States was quoted at 143 weeks in the second quarter of 2025, a substation power transformer at 128 weeks and medium-voltage switchgear at 44, per Wood Mackenzie, against about 50 weeks in 2021, and Open Factory's Lead-Time Monitor lists both readings.
Quote Check: What Your Switchgear Quote Should Have Said
Open Factory's Quote Check tool places a switchgear quote against public awards: Riverside Public Utilities paid $2,254,387.50 for a 15 kV metal-clad lineup in May 2025, 52% above the $1,481,321 median of 12 public awards dated December 2016 to May 2025 in the Public Bid-Tab Price Book.
One Steel Mill Gates Every US Transformer
Every pound of domestic grain-oriented electrical steel in a US transformer core is melted at Cleveland-Cliffs Butler Works, a plant with a 920 mm maximum coil width, and the transformer PPI is up 91% since December 2019 at 381.8 in July 2026, per Open Factory's Lead-Time Monitor.
Tariff Bill of Materials: What Sections 232 and 301 Add to a UPS, a Lineup, a Genset and a Megapack
A 1 MW UPS assembled in the United States carries about 17 points of duty and the same UPS imported from China carries 55, under the tariff stack in force on October 10, 2025. The 50% copper tariff is 3.8 of those 17 points, per Open Factory's Tariff Exposure Calculator.
The Copper and Wire Price Sheet, Weekly
Open Factory's Copper and Wire Price Sheet, refreshed every Monday, prices a foot of 500 kcmil copper at $9.48 of metal at the IMF's $6.14 a pound for July 2026, or $9.70 at that month's $6.28 COMEX open, with a price per foot for 13 conductor sizes.
The $2,850 Report That Says Nothing
IBISWorld's $2,850 ProcurementIQ switchgear report prices the whole category at one $37,300 benchmark, while the 118 public awards in Open Factory's Public Bid-Tab Price Book run from $12,492 for a pad-mount switch in 2019 to $3,827,000 for a 34.5 kV lineup in September 2024.
Cummins and Caterpillar Are Sold Out Through 2028
Cummins is taking generator orders well into 2028 and Caterpillar closed June 2026 with $72.1 billion of firm backlog, and Open Factory's Lead-Time Monitor shows published lead times of 50 to 66 weeks for a 1,500 to 2,000 kW diesel genset and 90 to 110 weeks above 3,500 kW.
The 171-Day Capex Lead Time: ISM's Most Ignored Table
The average US manufacturing buyer commits to capital equipment 171 days ahead of need in the August 2026 ISM report, with 27% committing more than a year out, against 147 days in December 2019. Open Factory's Lead-Time Monitor rebuilds the series back to 2007.
Introducing the Open Factory Lead-Time Monitor
Schneider Electric quotes low-voltage switchgear at 50 weeks from release to manufacturing in its September 2026 Lead Times Guide, and Open Factory's Lead-Time Monitor, launched as version 0.1, puts all eleven equipment classes in one table, of which only four have an OEM-published lead time.