Licensed customs brokers
Classify first-time parts, check colleagues’ work and transmit under their own license
- Each duty layer with its working and page
- Challenger points closed before the signature
- Past classifications shown at the decision
Features
Customs entry filing features, from the seller’s invoice to transmission
Entry writers and licensed brokers take an entry summary from the seller’s papers to transmission here. Each screen comes from one ocean entry of pumps, housings and gaskets that must file by five for release on arrival.
demoSample data throughout: the importer, the seller, the brokerage, its people and each figure.
- 01Documents read
Commercial invoice data extraction for the entry summary, field by field
- Invoice, packing list and bill of lading read. Lines, quantities, values, terms, carton marks and stated origin come off the seller’s papers, so the writer stops re-keying them.
- The words used, highlighted on the page. Each document opens with the agents’ reading marked, so a broker checks it against the page instead of trusting a field.
- Where each paper came from, and what was read. Seller email, carrier notice or client portal sits beside each document with the fields taken from it, so the writer knows which paper each figure rests on.
- 02Tariff stack
Each invoice line drawn as its stack of HTSUS, Chapter 99 and fee layers
- Duty layers per line, bottom to top. Invoice value, deductions, entered value, tariff rate, added duty by origin and fees sit in one column the broker reads at a glance.
- Section 232 checked and marked on each line. Each stack says whether a metals duty applies, and its working cites the note that decides it, so nobody wonders whether it was looked at.
- Named agents hand the entry on. Reader, value builder, classification checker, tariff stacker and drafter show their sources, confidence and next hand-off beside the stacks.
- 03The working
Duty calculation shown layer by layer, each amount cited to its rule or page
- Formula, amount and source on every layer. The broker checks the arithmetic behind the entry summary without rebuilding it in a spreadsheet.
- Freight and insurance shared by value. Deductions from a CIF price are spread across the lines the same way on each entry, with the valuation regulation cited beside them.
- Seller’s figure marked until proved. Freight taken off on the invoice’s word stays flagged until the carrier’s freight invoice and the premium note are on file.
- 04Challenger
Challenger queries the draft entry the way CBP’s import specialists do
- The question CBP would ask, point by point. Classification, deductions, origin, assists and metals duties are questioned while the entry can still change, not in a request for information later.
- Closed by a document, an answer or a broker. A point closes only on evidence or a licensed broker’s signature, and transmission waits until each one has.
- Assists raised for molded parts. When the importer owns the mold, the challenger asks whether its value belongs in the price before anyone files.
- 05Questions out
Seller and importer questions in fixed fields, answers compared to the papers
- Questions drafted from the challenger’s points. Country, factory, freight bill and mold cost are asked as fields with file slots, and a person sends them with a reason.
- Each answer checked against the documents. A reply that matches the carton marks but contradicts the invoice says so on its line, before it changes the entry.
- Fields and files change the entry, email does not. Origin, manufacturer and deductions update from structured answers and attached papers, never from a paragraph someone pasted in.
- 06Classification
First-time classification decided by the broker beside drawing and rulings
- Drawing, HTSUS notes and rulings in one place. The broker reads the evidence for both headings on one screen instead of keyword searches in another tab.
- Earlier decisions shown as rules. How the brokerage classified a similar dedicated part before appears with who decided and who approved it, so the next answer matches the last.
- Agents flag, a licensed broker classifies. Choosing the tariff number stays customs business, under the responsible supervision and control the broker’s license carries.
- 07What-if
Duty what-if under each tariff number, kept apart from the decision
- Both numbers played forward per entry and per year. The broker sees what a reclassification means to the importer before calling the client, with volume and value editable.
- Assumptions labeled as assumed. Entries a year and entered value sit in boxes marked assumed, which keeps a planning number from passing as a quote.
- The law decides and the money informs. A banner over the figures says the broker decides on the law, and no amount on the screen can pick the heading.
- 08Second check
Second licensed broker check on a first-time classification
- Signing only after opening the evidence. The check stays locked until the second broker has opened the drawing and the line’s working, so the check is made on the evidence itself.
- Agree, send back, or ask for more. The reason box opens blank, and the codes include disagreeing and reopening, so the check can change the outcome.
- Nobody checks their own classification. The broker who classified a line is barred from signing its check.
- 09Transmit
7501 entry summary signed three times, waiting for the broker to transmit
- Preparation, classification, check, transmission. Every signature carries a written meaning, and the entry writer can prepare an entry but never send it.
- Transmit waits on every condition. An open challenger point, a missing second check, an unread outside note or a hold keeps the button off, with the reason shown.
- Evidence binder for the entry. Lines, points, signatures, documents and audit rows download together, so a later CBP question is answered from one file.