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Axiom System Research
Axiom System Research

Trade policy moves faster than the analysis it requires.

We build the machine intelligence that closes the gap — reading every measure the day it publishes, mapping it onto your actual lines and shipments, and returning a position you can defend, with the heading and ruling it rests on.

Duty you should not be paying. Refunds nobody claimed. Classifications that would not survive a focused assessment. Found in hours, at catalogue scale, with the work shown.

Request a duty exposure diagnostic → See TariffOS live
Section 301 · 232 · 122HTSUS 10-digitDrawback & refundsOrigin & UFLPA
Lanes screened Load ports Ocean manifest coverage · 19 CFR 103.31
~80%
of eligible duty refunds go unclaimed each year
99%
of paid duty is recoverable under drawback, at the ceiling
30 min
to classify one product line by hand, done properly
12:01
a.m. — when measures take effect, and the clock starts
01 — The problem

Three ways this environment charges importers for being slow.

None of them exotic. All measured in cash. All tractable with the right evidence base.

01

You are paying duty you do not owe

Overbroad classifications. Costs treated as dutiable that never were. Exemption headings nobody claimed. Refund windows that closed quietly. Every one of these is a line in your entry summaries — visible, provable, recoverable, if somebody reads them all. Nobody reads them all by hand.

02

You learn what a measure cost you weeks after it landed

Measures take effect overnight. The decisions they force — hold the container, re-route the order, re-price the SKU, file inside the in-transit window — expire in days. An answer that arrives in three weeks is not an answer. It is a post-mortem.

03

Enforcement reads your file more carefully than you do

Trade enforcement has moved up the priority list, and reasonable care is judged on documentation, not intention. A classification with no written reasoning, no cited rulings and no timestamp is an exposure waiting for a focused assessment.

02 — Capabilities

Five practices, one evidence base.

Full capability detail →
01 · Classify

Defensible classification at scale

Ten-digit lines with the General Rules of Interpretation applied and written out, supporting rulings cited, alternatives ruled out on the record, timestamped throughout.

GRI reasoning · cited rulings · audit trail
02 · Recover

Duty recovery and refunds

Entries cross-referenced against export and destruction records to surface drawback-eligible transactions, reclassification candidates and refunds from amended or vacated measures.

Drawback · reclassification · refund windows
03 · Lower

Lawful duty reduction, modelled first

Tariff engineering, first-sale valuation, unbundling of non-dutiable cost, origin and substantial transformation, FTZ and bonded structures — each with its documentary burden stated.

Tariff engineering · first sale · origin · FTZ
04 · Watch

Continuous exposure monitoring

Every action, annex amendment and exclusion list read the day it publishes and mapped onto your lines and in-transit shipments, with the deadline on the clock. Delivered as TariffOS.

301 · 232 · 122 · in-transit windows
05 · Trace

Origin, sanctions and forced-labour exposure

Supplier networks reconstructed from customs, registry and shipping records so concentration, transhipment and restricted-entity adjacency are visible below tier one — before a detention makes them visible.

Multi-tier graph · transhipment · UFLPA
Engagement

The first finding costs nothing

Built from the public record alone. Send a company name; nothing else is required, and there is no obligation on either side.

Start there →
03 — Systems

Where a question recurs, we build the system.

All six systems →
Live · flagship system

TariffOS

A continuously updated register of published trade actions, screened against the public trade record and your own shipments. Company-specific findings the same business day a measure lands — with the deadline that follows it running on the clock.

Open the live register →
Actions tracked4 in register
Authorities301 · 232 · 122
Screening unitHTSUS line · shipment
TurnaroundSame business day
04 — Method

Machines do the reading. People carry the judgement.

Language models are extraordinary at volume and unreliable at consequence. The pipeline is built around that asymmetry, and it is the same pipeline every time.

How we work →
01

Frame the exposure

One scoping session with your trade, procurement and legal leads: which measures matter, which entities are in scope, and what a defensible answer has to look like to be usable.

02

Build the evidence base

Regulatory texts, annexes and binding rulings; manifest, registry and corporate records; your catalogue, bills of materials and entry history — normalised once, provenance retained per field.

03

Screen at machine scale

Models read the annexes, reconcile naming and transliteration variants, follow derivative lists and draft the reasoning. A quarter of compliance-team work, processed in hours, uniformly.

04

Adjudicate every consequence

Analysts review each flag that moves money or creates liability. Confidence is reported, disagreement is recorded, and nothing arrives as a conclusion when the record supports only a range.

05

Deliver, defend, monitor

Findings arrive ready for review by your licensed customs broker or trade counsel, who determine classification and make all filings. Where the measure keeps moving, we keep watching and reissue.

05 — Assurance

What makes a finding worth acting on.

Sources named

Official publications, binding rulings, public manifest and registry records, plus your own documents. Each flag carries the one it derives from.

Reasoning written down

Which rule was applied, which alternatives were considered and why they were ruled out — the record that demonstrates reasonable care.

Limits stated

Manifest data covers ocean cargo only. Invoice values are not public. Where the record cannot settle a question, the finding says which document would.

Confidentiality

Client data is processed under engagement terms, never pooled across clients, never used to train third-party models. NDA before anything is sent.

Name the measure keeping your team up. We will show you what the record already says about it.

A first briefing is built from public records alone — no documents required, no obligation. Findings are typically returned the same business day.

Request a briefing → support@axiom-research.net +1 862 244 5192