Delivered Duty Paid (DDP)

Delivered Duty Paid places responsibility for duties and taxes on the seller, creating a frictionless experience for the end customer. Without accurate upfront decisioning and partner coordination, however, DDP can introduce cost uncertainty, disputes and delivery failures. Hurricane enables organisations to deliver DDP shipments reliably and at scale through integrated partner workflows.

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Classification Accuracy

209+

Countries Supported

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Make Delivered Duty Paid Predictable with Hurricane

DDP requires certainty over duties, taxes and fees before goods move. Errors in landed cost calculation or cost allocation often result in billing disputes, failed deliveries and poor customer experience.

Hurricane removes this uncertainty by delivering accurate landed cost decisions early in the trade lifecycle, ensuring all parties understand who pays what, and when, before shipments are committed.

This allows organisations to offer DDP as a scalable commercial model rather than a high-risk exception process.

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Delivered Duty Paid Solution

Hurricane’s Delivered Duty Paid solution combines classification, duty and tax calculation and trade rule logic to enable accurate DDP decisioning.

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Through integration with technology and service partners, Hurricane supports end-to-end DDP workflows by providing:

Accurate duty and tax calculation
Clear landed cost visibility
Consistent cost allocation across parties
Defensible decision outputs

These decisions are made before goods move and shared across connected partner systems.

Partner-Led DDP Workflows

Distribution partners offer Hurricane as part of their commercial proposition.

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Delivered Duty Paid relies on coordination across multiple systems, including payments, logistics and clearance.

Hurricane works alongside technology and service partners to support DDP delivery, acting as the central decision layer while partners manage execution, settlement and fulfilment.

This approach allows organisations to deliver DDP without building or maintaining complex trade logic in-house.

New Trade Models and Customer Expectations

Hurricane provides clear, actionable outcomes that help organisations determine:

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Cross-border customers increasingly expect transparent pricing and delivery without unexpected charges at the border.

At the same time, customs authorities require accurate, complete and verifiable trade data. Without early decisioning, DDP models become costly to manage and difficult to scale.

Hurricane supports modern DDP workflows by ensuring landed cost and allocation decisions meet both commercial and regulatory expectations before execution.

Data Consistency and Cost Allocation

Hurricane ensures that the same landed cost and allocation logic is applied consistently across systems, regions and shipments.

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Accurate DDP decisioning:

Reduces delivery failures
Prevents billing disputes
Improves customer satisfaction

This consistent data underpins Hurricane’s wider trade decisioning capabilities, including duty and tax calculation and compliance screening.

Key Takeaways

Global Trade

Commercial clarity
Clear cost ownership across the supply chain.
Operational confidence
Fewer delivery exceptions and manual interventions.
Partner-enabled delivery
DDP executed through trusted technology and service partners.

How Delivered Duty Paid Is Accessed

Delivered Duty Paid decisioning is delivered through Hurricane’s API and integrated partner workflows.

Hurricane provides the decision intelligence, while technology and service partners support execution, settlement and fulfilment.

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Who Uses Delivered Duty Paid

Hurricane’s Delivered Duty Paid solution is used by organisations delivering cross-border commerce at scale, including retailers, marketplaces, carriers and logistics providers.

Each organisation applies the same underlying DDP decisioning capability within partner-led operational models.

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How Delivered Duty Paid Is Accessed

Delivered Duty Paid decisioning is delivered through Hurricane’s API and integrated partner workflows.

Hurricane provides the decision intelligence, while technology and service partners support execution, settlement and fulfilment.

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Our Other Solutions

Explore additional Hurricane solutions including HS Code Classification, Duty and Tax Calculation, Prohibited and Restricted Goods Screening, Denied Parties Screening, EU Import Controls and Pre-Loading Data Requirements.

Our Solutions

HS Code Classification

Duty and Tax Calculation

Prohibited and Restricted Goods Screening

Denied Parties Screening

EU Import One-Stop Shop (IOSS)

ICS2 – Import Control System 2

Delivered Duty Paid (DDP)

HS Code Classification

Duty and Tax Calculation

Prohibited and Restricted Goods Screening

Denied Parties Screening

EU Import One-Stop Shop (IOSS)

ICS2 – Import Control System 2

Delivered Duty Paid (DDP)

HS Code Classification

Automated, accurate classification across global tariff schedules.

Hurricane delivers consistent HS code decisions and validations at scale, reducing manual effort, lowering error rates and removing one of the most common causes of customs delays and disputes.

Outcome: Faster clearance, fewer disputes, reduced operational cost.

Duty and Tax Calculation

Predictable landed cost outcomes across jurisdictions.

Hurricane calculates duties and taxes using current tariff data and trade rules, enabling accurate pricing, cost allocation and margin protection across international movements.

Outcome: Improved pricing accuracy and reduced revenue leakage.

Prohibited and Restricted Goods Screening

Early identification of goods subject to trade controls.

Hurricane screens products against global restrictions and controls before shipment, reducing the risk of seizures, fines and network disruption.

Outcome: Lower compliance risk and smoother cross-border flows.

Denied Parties Screening

Risk screening across global sanctions and watchlists.

Hurricane identifies restricted entities early in the transaction lifecycle, supporting safer trade and stronger governance.

Outcome: Reduced regulatory exposure and reputational risk.

EU Import One-Stop Shop (IOSS)

Support for simplified EU VAT on low-value imports

Hurricane supports IOSS workflows by enabling accurate VAT calculation and reporting, helping organisations deliver into the EU with fewer delays and improved customer experience.

Outcome: Faster EU delivery and reduced operational friction.

ICS2 – Import Control System 2

Accurate pre-loading data for EU security requirements.

Hurricane supports ICS2 requirements by ensuring accurate, validated shipment data is submitted earlier in the supply chain, reducing rejections, holds and network disruption.

Outcome: Improved EU border performance and network reliability.

Delivered Duty Paid (DDP)

End-to-end landed cost calculation and duty allocation.

Hurricane enables Delivered Duty Paid shipments by calculating duties and taxes upfront and supporting accurate allocation of costs across parties before goods move. By removing uncertainty around who pays what and when, Hurricane helps organisations deliver DDP at scale without manual reconciliation, billing disputes or downstream delivery failures.

Outcome: Fewer delivery exceptions, clearer cost ownership and improved customer experience.

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