Your catalogue, your entry history and the public regulatory record are normalised once and kept under version — so a classification, a refund claim and a scenario model all draw on the same source of truth, and any of them can be reproduced a year later.
Speed is not the differentiator. A classification you can defend two years later, in front of an auditor, is.
Classification is where duty exposure begins, and where most of it is quietly created. Product descriptions written for sales, specifications spread across engineering documents, and a schedule that changes underneath you make the correct ten-digit line a research task — not a lookup.
We read the specification, apply the General Rules of Interpretation in order, retrieve the binding rulings that bear on it, and write down the reasoning — including the alternatives considered and why they were rejected. Then an analyst reviews everything that carries consequence. What you receive is not a code; it is a documented position.
The cheapest duty reduction available is the duty you already paid and can lawfully get back.
Most refund entitlements are never claimed — not because they are disputed, but because finding them means reconciling years of entry summaries against export, transfer and destruction records that live in different systems and never agreed with each other in the first place.
We reconcile them computationally, then rank what we find by recoverable duty and by evidentiary strength — because a claim you cannot document is a liability, not an asset. Filing stays with your licensed broker or counsel; we build the file they need.
Import entries matched to export and destruction records to identify eligible transactions, including manufacturing and substitution cases, with the documentary chain assembled.
Historic lines re-tested against specifications and rulings, with overpayment quantified and the supporting reasoning drafted for review.
Amended, expired or vacated measures traced back to affected entries, with the window for acting on each one stated as a date.
Every lever here is legitimate and long-established. Each also carries a documentary burden — we state both.
Duty is a function of what the product is, where it is from and what it is worth. Each of those is defined by rules, and rules can be planned against — lawfully, in the open, and with the evidence assembled in advance rather than reconstructed under audit.
Where a design, finishing step or packing configuration legitimately changes the governing line, we identify it, quantify it and document the basis before anything changes on the shop floor.
First-sale valuation where the transaction structure supports it, and separation of costs that were never dutiable — post-import assembly, installation, testing, warranty, certain freight and insurance.
Where processing steps sit relative to origin rules, which sourcing alternatives change the answer, and what the record would have to show for the position to hold.
Foreign trade zone and bonded warehouse structures, privileged status elections, and entry timing against effective dates and in-transit windows.
Sourcing and structural alternatives resolved to a duty-inclusive landed cost, with transit bands, duty stacks and compliance overhead exposed and versioned — so procurement can argue with the model instead of around it.
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Open the live register →Actions publish as dense annexes running to dozens of pages of ten-digit lines, amended by later notices, cross-referenced to exemption groups and derivative lists that expand without warning. Reading one properly takes a specialist a day. Mapping it onto a specific company's shipments takes considerably longer than the deadline allows.
We do that mapping the day the measure publishes and keep doing it as the measure changes. You are told what moved, which of your lines and in-transit shipments it reaches, what the controlling date is, and which questions the public record cannot answer — while there is still time to act.
Section 301, 232 and 122 actions, reciprocal measures, exclusion and exemption annexes, derivative lists, and statutory expiry dates.
Ocean manifest records under 19 CFR 103.31 — vessel, lading port, arrival date, commodity, HS line, and an estimated laden-on-board range reported as a range.
Effective dates, in-transit windows and entry cut-offs tracked to the minute, with the register updating as each one passes.
When an annex is amended, a corrected finding is issued within one business day — and the change itself is described, not just the new result.
Your invoice names one supplier. Enforcement is interested in the four behind it.
Detentions rarely turn on the vendor you contracted with. They turn on an input two or three tiers upstream, a transhipment pattern that looks like origin laundering, or a corporate relationship nobody in procurement had reason to know about.
We reconstruct the network from customs, corporate registry and shipping records, then test it against restricted-entity and forced-labour lists and against the routing patterns that draw scrutiny. The output is a map with named entities, the records that connect them, and the specific relationships worth asking your supplier about — in writing, before a container is held.
Shipper, consignee and corporate links assembled into a graph with source records attached to every edge.
Routing and timing patterns that indicate goods moving through a third country rather than originating there.
Single points of failure several tiers down, where two nominally independent vendors share one upstream plant.
Scope drives everything. Terms are agreed in writing before work begins, and recovery work can be structured so that our fee follows the money we find.
Built from the public record alone. Send a company name — nothing else is required, and there is no obligation. If it tells you nothing you did not already know, that is a useful result and we would like to hear it.
Your catalogue and entries under continuous screening, named analysts, findings reissued whenever a measure changes, and recovery work run alongside. Scoped to line count and lane footprint.
Where the question recurs, we build the system that answers it continuously inside your environment — interface, data lineage, documentation and training included.
Neither. We produce analysis. Classification decisions and filings remain with your licensed customs broker or trade counsel, and our deliverables are built to be reviewed by them — cited, dated and structured for exactly that review.
No. Models read at volume and draft the reasoning; analysts adjudicate everything that moves money or creates liability. Confidence is reported, and where the record supports only a range, you get the range.
It is processed under engagement terms, encrypted in transit and at rest, never pooled across clients, and never used to train third-party models. NDA is signed before anything is sent. Deletion on request at the end of an engagement.
Triage on the day it publishes: which of your lines are reached, which shipments are in the in-transit window, what the controlling dates are, and one dated brief for the people who have to decide before the market opens.
Routinely, and it is the arrangement we prefer. They keep the professional responsibility; we take the research load off them and hand back a documented file.
On scope — line count, lane footprint, history depth. The first finding is free, recovery work can be performance-based, and every figure is agreed in writing before work starts. Ask and we will scope it in a call.
No documents required for the first finding, and no obligation on either side.