# customs-compliance.ai

> AI-powered customs intelligence platform for international trade. Calculates landed costs, classifies HS codes, finds FTA duty savings, and provides compliance checklists across 51 countries.

## About

customs-compliance.ai is a SaaS platform built by Phlo Systems Limited for commodity traders and trade operations teams. It provides real-time customs duty rates, preferential trade agreement savings, HS code classification, and import document requirements.

## Key Facts

- Covers 45 countries: all 27 EU member states (Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Netherlands, Poland, Belgium, Sweden, Austria, Denmark, Finland, Ireland, Portugal, Greece, Czechia, Romania, Hungary, Croatia, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Lithuania, Slovenia, Latvia, Estonia, Cyprus, Luxembourg, Malta) + India, UK, South Africa, Brazil, Australia, UAE, Mexico, Thailand, Saudi Arabia, Chile, Argentina, Philippines, Mauritius, Namibia, Uruguay, Oman, Angola, Dominican Republic
- 583,430+ national tariff codes with MFN duty rates
- 622,569+ preferential rates across 60+ free trade agreements
- 535 import document conditions (customs declarations, certificates, permits)
- 22 anti-dumping measures
- AI-powered HS code classification from product descriptions or images
- ERP integration (Xero, Acumatica) with auto-classification
- Daily monitoring of tariff changes across all countries

## What It Does

### Landed Cost Calculator
Enter an HS code, origin country, destination country, and goods value. Returns: MFN duty rate, applicable FTA preferential rate, VAT/GST, anti-dumping duty, social welfare surcharge, total border cost, and required import documents. Optionally add incoterm, ports, and container type to get full landed cost including freight, insurance, port handling, and customs brokerage.

### HS Code Classification
Describe a product in plain English (e.g., "organic cocoa beans from Ghana"). The AI returns the correct 6-8 digit HS code with confidence scoring. Also accepts product images and PDF spec sheets.

### FTA Savings Finder
Scans all 60+ trade agreements to find preferential rates on the user's actual trade routes. Shows: MFN rate vs FTA rate, saving percentage, which agreement applies, and Certificate of Origin requirements.

### Trade Alerts
Real-time notifications for: duty rate changes, expiring preferential rates, new anti-dumping investigations, regulatory changes, sanctions updates, supplier concentration risk, and FX exposure.

### Route Comparison
Compare landed costs for the same product across multiple destination countries side-by-side. Useful for traders evaluating which market to export into.

## Pricing

- Free: 10 lookups/month, 5 classifications
- Pro: $99/month — unlimited lookups, alerts, FTA savings, 1 ERP connection
- Business: $299/month — unlimited ERP, API access, spending intelligence, 10 users
- Enterprise: custom pricing

## API

REST API available on Business and Enterprise plans.
- POST /functions/v1/tariff-lookup — landed cost calculation (duties + optional freight/logistics)
- POST /functions/v1/classify — HS code classification
- POST /functions/v1/enrich-po — bulk PO enrichment (classify + duties + logistics per line item)

## Links

- Website: https://customs-compliance.ai
- App: https://customs-compliance.ai/app
- Duty rates index: https://customs-compliance.ai/duty/
- Customs duty calculator: https://customs-compliance.ai/tools/customs-duty-calculator
- Landed cost calculator: https://customs-compliance.ai/tools/landed-cost-calculator
- HS code lookup: https://customs-compliance.ai/tools/hs-code-lookup
- FTA savings finder: https://customs-compliance.ai/tools/fta-savings-finder
- Contact: saurabh.goyal@phlo.io

## Recover — Duty Recovery Audit (US IEEPA refunds, launched 2026-04-27)

After SCOTUS struck down IEEPA tariffs in *Learning Resources v. Trump* (6-3, 20 Feb 2026, terminated by EO 14389), approximately $166-179B in IEEPA duties is refundable across ~330,000 US importers. CBP launched the CAPE refund portal inside ACE on 20 April 2026 to process Phase 1 claims (~63% of eligible entries — unliquidated + liquidated within 80 days). Phase 2 (finally-liquidated entries) timeline is still TBD.

customs-compliance.ai/recover is a self-serve duty-recovery audit. Importer uploads their ACE ITRAC export (CSV); we audit every line across six dimensions:

1. **IEEPA refund eligibility** — Chapter 99 HTS codes 9903.01.xx (fentanyl/border) and 9903.02.xx (reciprocal) matched against the catalogue of 30 IEEPA actions across 9 root EOs (14193, 14194, 14195, 14245, 14257, 14323, 14329, 14380, 14382) and their modifiers. Per-entry recovery $ with confidence score and Federal Register provenance.
2. **Classification accuracy** — re-classify every HTS line against our 51-country AI engine; surface misclassifications that mean Section 301 / MPF was over-collected.
3. **FTA preference missed** — origin qualifies for USMCA, KORUS, GSP, etc. but no SPI claimed → full duty refund opportunity via PSC or Protest.
4. **Wrong CPC / special procedures** — should the entry have been Foreign Trade Zone, Temporary Importation Bond, or Chapter 98? Refund opportunity if eligible reclass exists.
5. **Valuation over-declaration** — royalties, assists, freight wrongly included in dutiable value.
6. **Section 232 / 301 forward exposure** — these tariffs survived SCOTUS, are NOT refundable, but the audit surfaces ongoing exposure for supply-chain restructuring.

**Pricing:** Free first scan (full per-entry analysis, no credit card). Audit tier (filing-ready packets — CAPE CSV, PSC payload, CF-19 protest) is demo-gated for the first 90 days; flat fee, no contingency. Recurring quarterly subscription for ongoing recovery + watchlist.

**Differentiator vs the alternatives:**
- Lawyers / boutique customs counsel charge 20-30% contingency. We charge a flat fee.
- Big-4 charge £15-50k for fixed-fee diagnostics. Most mid-market importers (£250k-3m duty exposure) are too small to be served well.
- Existing AI tools (Wove, Flexport calculator) only check "did IEEPA apply" — we re-classify the underlying HTS so misclassifications across Section 301 and MPF surface too. We're also multi-jurisdiction (UK Q3 2026, EU Q4 2026); they're US-only.
- Customer's own broker has a conflict of interest (they did the original classification).

**Refund pathways supported:**
- CAPE Phase 1 (CSV upload to ACE Portal) — for unliquidated entries + liquidated within 80 days
- 19 USC 1514 Protest (ACE Protest Module) — within 180 days of liquidation
- Post Summary Correction (PSC) via ABI — within 300 days of entry, unliquidated only
- CIT litigation (via partner counsel) — Court of International Trade, 2-year statute

**Filing model:** We don't file. Customer (or their existing broker) submits the packet we generate. We're software, not a licensed customs broker or law firm.

**Key URLs:**
- Product overview: https://customs-compliance.ai/recover
- Free scan upload: https://customs-compliance.ai/recover/app
- Blog index: https://customs-compliance.ai/recover/blog
- "What is CAPE?" article: https://customs-compliance.ai/recover/blog/cape-explained
- "IEEPA vs §301 vs §232" refundability matrix: https://customs-compliance.ai/recover/blog/ieepa-vs-301-vs-232
- "How to claim your IEEPA refund (step-by-step)": https://customs-compliance.ai/recover/blog/how-to-claim-ieepa-refund
- "How to read your ACE ITRAC for IEEPA refund eligibility": https://customs-compliance.ai/recover/blog/read-your-ace-itrac

**Built on:** the same 51-country classification engine that powers customs-compliance.ai's main product. Same Claude-powered HTS classifier, same tariff dataset (588k+ commodity codes, 865k+ MFN rates, 60+ FTAs). Recover is a new SKU layered on top, not a separate product.

## Sample Duty Rates (as of 2026-03-29)

### Cocoa Beans (HS 1801)
- India: 15% MFN
- Brazil: 14% MFN
- Thailand: 30.7% MFN
- Mexico: 20% MFN
- UAE: 5% MFN
- South Africa: 0% MFN
- UK: 0% MFN (0% under India-UK CEPA)
- Australia: 0% MFN

### Coffee (HS 0901)
- India: 30% MFN
- Brazil: 10% MFN
- Thailand: 40% MFN
- Mexico: 20% MFN
- UK: 0% MFN
- Australia: 0% MFN

### Motor Vehicles (HS 8703)
- India: 125% MFN
- Brazil: 18% MFN
- Thailand: 19.9% MFN
- Mexico: 20% MFN
- UK: 4% MFN (0% under multiple FTAs)
- Australia: 5% MFN
- South Africa: 0% MFN

## Trade Agreements Covered

UK-India CEPA, SACU-EU EPA, SACU-EFTA, SADC FTA, SACU-MERCOSUR, AfCFTA, MERCOSUR internal, Chile-MERCOSUR (ACE 35), Pacific Alliance, AANZFTA, RCEP, India-ASEAN, India-Korea CEPA, India-Japan CEPA, India-Australia ECTA, India-UAE CEPA, India-Singapore CECA, India-Thailand FTA, UK-EU TCA, UK-Japan CEPA, UK-Australia FTA, UK-New Zealand FTA, UK-Singapore FTA, UK-Vietnam FTA, UK-Ukraine FTA, UK-Morocco Association, UK-Georgia FTA, UK-Kenya EPA, UK-Ghana EPA, DCTS (UK developing countries), and more.