Tariff Classification demo

For importers: each new part’s HTSUS code argued over its own drawing, priced both ways and challenged before anyone signs. 1:30

What the demo shows

Proposes each new part’s HTSUS code from its drawing, with the rules and rulings, for sign-off

Agents read each new part’s drawing and spec sheet for the facts that classify it, walk the tariff for both candidate codes rule by rule, ask engineering and the supplier in fixed fields, and price a year’s duty under each code, Section 232 included, for the part and its drawing family in the parts master. A challenger argues the runner-up heading and catches branches the agents’ own walk skipped; the analyst reads any free text, answers with cited facts and proposes a code, and the manager opens the drawing and the rulings before approving it. When the gap between codes is large, counsel and the director sign a binding ruling request before it goes to CBP.

Transcript

  1. Tariff Classification codes imported parts: steel casting at fifty percent, or valve part?
  2. Agents walk both codes; Lisette adds the foundry’s castings.
  3. Engineering answers: one valve model, no handwheel.
  4. The Rival Heading attacks, and catches a branch the agents skipped.
  5. The foundry’s free-text offer to machine goes to a person.
  6. Lisette answers the rival in her own words, cites three facts, then proposes the valve-body code.
  7. Engineering declines the offer; the casting stays rough.
  8. Elliot opens the drawing and rulings himself; at assumed rates, the codes differ by six hundred thirty-one thousand a year.
  9. Counsel signs the ruling request, which also asks CBP about the aluminum line.
  10. The director signs second; counsel’s reasons stay privileged in every export.
  11. The rule for its siblings is approved, and twenty-nine re-checks are queued.
  12. Built on Botminds: agents, data, screens and governance on one platform.

The narration as written for the film. Captions are on the player.