Trade Intelligence

The Landed Cost Estimator answers the planning question: send a plain-English product description and get back the 6-digit international HS subheading, an honest duty-rate range across the tariff lines under it, and Section 301 exposure — enough to compare suppliers and budget a margin before you commit. It fits sourcing and procurement teams, and importers of hardware, electronics, housewares, machinery and similar goods, where the duty spread inside a subheading is usually narrow enough to plan against. It is a poor fit for apparel and footwear, where published rates inside a single subheading can span 3% to 48%; we say so on the product page rather than sell into it.

US Import Risk Screening answers the enforcement question: give it a supplier or manufacturer name and it checks the DHS UFLPA Entity List and the federal Consolidated Screening List (denied parties) in one call, with a deterministic exposure rating. An HTS number and country of origin are optional and echoed back for your own records; neither is used to screen. It does not assess antidumping or countervailing duty scope, and neither does the Landed Cost Estimator, which says so on each estimate.

FDA Import Alert Screening answers the same enforcement question for FDA-regulated goods: screen a firm against every FDA Import Alert Red, Yellow and Green List in one call. A match is an advisory name-similarity result to verify, never a determination that your firm is the firm on FDA’s list.

None of these products classifies goods for a customs entry. None will hand you a tariff line it derived: everything the two trade products produce is capped at the 6-digit international HS subheading. (The screening API echoes back the HTS number you sent, at whatever depth you sent it — that is your string, not ours.) Determining the tariff line for a shipment is a licensed customs broker’s work. Use these to plan and to screen. Use a broker to file. See each product page for exactly which sources are live today.

For an introduction to UFLPA screening, see the guide How to Check a Supplier Against the UFLPA Entity List or the blog post What UFLPA screening actually requires. For how wide a 6-digit duty estimate can be, see Is the 6-Digit HS Code Enough to Estimate U.S. Duty?, or try a description of your own in the free landed-cost estimator.