Features
Customs compliance software built around one hard problem
Customs compliance software usually means a database with a search box. Tariffwise is built around the actual bottleneck: turning a real-world product description into a defensible HS/HTS classification, then pricing what that code costs at the border.
The capability grid
What is live in the demo, and what early access adds
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AI HS/HTS classification
Plain-language description in, most likely code out, with the official heading text and a confidence level. Try it on the live demo.
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Written rationale
Two or three sentences naming the material, function or construction that drove the code. Reasoning you can repeat to a broker or an auditor.
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Runner-up codes
The two nearest alternative codes with the single factor that would flip the classification, so edge cases surface instead of hiding.
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Duty and tax estimates
General-rate duty for the destination plus its import VAT or GST, applied to your shipment value with the arithmetic computed exactly.
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Landed cost of entry
Value, duty and tax totalled per lane. The full freight-and-fees formula lives in the landed cost calculator.
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Compliance flags
Real regulatory considerations surfaced with the code: dangerous goods testing for lithium batteries, FDA prior notice for food, labeling rules for textiles.
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Saved classification history
Every result stored with its rationale and date, so one SKU never gets two answers from two people.
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Bulk CSV classification
Upload the catalog, classify every row in one run, review the low-confidence lines first.
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Team seats and roles
Ops classifies, compliance reviews, finance reads the costs. Everyone sees the same defensible record.
Nothing above is a mockup: the live rows run today on the harmonized tariff schedule lookup demo. The early-access rows are what the signup unlocks as they ship.
For the decision maker
Built to satisfy the person who signs off
Compliance managers do not buy speed, they buy defensibility. Every Tariffwise classification carries its reasoning, its alternatives and, in early access, its history, so the answer to "why this code?" is never "the intern picked it".
- Consistent codes across the whole team, not per-person guesses
- Rationale and runner-ups attached to every classification
- Compliance flags for controlled or regulated goods, surfaced early
- Enterprise plan: SSO, roles and permissions, SLA, invoicing, data residency, security review
Tariffwise vs the alternatives
Where each option actually fits
A customs broker, per line
The right call for genuinely contested classifications and binding rulings. But paying a per-line fee and waiting days for routine SKUs is how classification became your bottleneck. Use Tariffwise for the routine 95 percent, your broker for the fights.
Enterprise compliance suites (Avalara Cross-Border, Descartes CustomsInfo)
Deep tariff content and entrenched in Fortune 500 trade departments. Also: sales-led contracts, long onboarding, lookup-style UX, and pricing that assumes a trade department. Overkill and out of reach for an SMB ops team.
Checkout landed-cost widgets (Zonos and similar)
Good at showing a duties-included total at ecommerce checkout. But classification happens in a black box, there is no rationale, and there is no workspace where a compliance manager reviews anything.
Tariffwise
The self-serve middle that was missing: AI classification with a written rationale, duty and landed cost on the same screen, honest confidence levels, at team pricing. Guidance in seconds, and in early access, a reviewable audit trail behind it.
See how teams apply it on the trade compliance software use cases page, or check the planned pricing.