Customs Desk

The classification, the duty angles and the red flags — from your shipment paste, with the reasoning shown.

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Not a binding customs ruling, and not a substitute for a licensed customs broker or trade counsel. Customs Desk is decision support: an AI-generated read of the text you paste, produced without reviewing your goods or your entry documents. No licensed broker has reviewed it. Classifications, duty rates and origin claims must be verified against the current tariff of the importing country — and settled by a binding ruling where the money or the exposure warrants it — before anything is filed.

Duty calculator — free, in your browser value × rate

Fill both to see the duty and the landed cost.

RVC calculator (FTA regional value content)

RVC = ((basis − VNM) / basis) × 100 — the same formula the transaction-value and net-cost methods apply to different bases.

How it works

Nothing to paste? — a consumer-electronics importer bringing 5,000 smart watches from Shenzhen into the US: a supplier-proposed HS code that deserves an argument, a DDP quote with the classic valuation trap, Section 301 exposure, a half-plausible FTA hope and a "split it into $750 parcels" suggestion that needs to be called what it is. Or , rendered from a saved reply with no run and no charge.

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Paste the shipment

The product and what it is made of and does, the lane, the value, the Incoterm, the parties, any proposed code. The code scanner sizes it up free in your browser — format checks, Incoterm cautions, missing essentials. No sign-in needed for that.

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Say what you need

Full compliance review, classification focus, FTA and duty savings, docs and entry readiness, or a red-flag screen — plus any notes. A serious red flag is reported whatever the task; the task sets where the depth goes.

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File with your eyes open

Candidate classifications with the GRI rung shown, the duty and program findings with the arithmetic on your numbers, the documentation checklist, the red flags named plainly — and the open questions to resolve before anyone files. Copy it, or download as markdown.