Trade classification assistant
An AI-assisted tool to help businesses classify goods and understand tariffs and trade agreements.
Case study
The challenge
Classifying goods under the Harmonized System and working out duties and applicable trade agreements is slow, specialist work. Small importers and exporters often rely on guesswork or expensive advice.
The context
The product's initial focus is UK and EU trade, where tariff schedules and rules of origin are detailed and change over time.
The approach
- Treat HS code discovery as decision support: suggest candidate codes with reasoning, and leave the final choice to the user.
- Combine tariff reference data with AI assistance, rather than relying on a model's memory of regulations.
The solution
- HS code discovery support.
- Tariff information and trade-agreement awareness.
- Decision-support workflows for compliance checks.
The technology
The product experience
Users describe a product in plain language and are guided to likely classifications and the tariff information that applies.
The current status
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