For trade teams
Tariff classification software for AI HTS classification your team can defend
Tariff classification software has historically meant two options: an enterprise compliance suite sold on an annual contract, or a database with a search box that matches words instead of meaning. TariffWise is the third option: AI HTS classification with a written rationale, duty and landed cost on the same screen, priced for teams. Describe a product on the right and read the code and the reasoning before you decide anything.
Published plans from $59 a month · 10-digit HTSUS with GRI reasoning · A recommendation for your review, not a CBP ruling
Customs declaration · AI classifier
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The short answer
Tariff classification software takes a plain-English product description and returns a committed HTS code, the reasoning behind it under the General Rules of Interpretation, the nearest alternative codes, and the duty that code carries for your origin. The tools that earn their keep for a US importer do all four on every result, keep a record you can show in an audit, and publish a price. TariffWise does that from $59 a month for 100 classifications, about 20 cents each on the Growth plan, against $50 to $200 per product for a broker review.
What "defensible" means in software
Four things a classification tool owes you
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A code, not a list of maybes
A search box returns forty candidate lines and leaves the judgment to you. Classification software should commit: the most likely code, its official heading text, and an honest confidence level, with the near misses shown separately.
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The reasoning, written down
When customs or an auditor asks "why this code?", the answer cannot be "the tool said so". Every TariffWise result carries two or three plain-English sentences naming the material, function or construction that drove the call.
03
The runner-ups, with the flip factor
Disputes live in the gap between two plausible codes. Software that hides the alternatives hides your risk. TariffWise shows the two nearest codes and the single distinguishing factor that would flip the classification.
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The cost, on the same screen
A code without its duty is half an answer. Each classification prices the duty, the import tax and the estimated landed cost for your origin and destination lane, with the arithmetic computed exactly.
Built for the team, not the analyst
One engine, one record, every desk
The expensive failure mode of manual classification is inconsistency: three people, three answers, no record of why. Software fixes that only if the whole team runs through the same engine and the results live in one place.
- Live today: classification, rationale, runner-ups, duty and landed cost, free on the demo
- Saved history, so one SKU never gets two answers from two people
- Bulk CSV runs with review flags on low-confidence rows
- Team seats with owner and member roles, plus a REST API on Business and Enterprise
How it compares to what you use today
Against a customs broker: keep the broker for genuinely contested classifications and binding rulings, and stop paying a per-line fee with a multi-day turnaround for the routine 95 percent of SKUs. Against enterprise suites like Avalara Cross-Border or Descartes CustomsInfo: those are deep, entrenched and priced for Fortune 500 trade departments, with sales-led onboarding measured in weeks, and the Descartes CustomsInfo alternative comparison goes module by module through what you would be replacing, and the 3CE Classify alternative page explains where that engine is sold today. Against per-item classification firms: Tarifflo charges $125 an item or $7,500 a year prepaid, and the Tarifflo alternative page sets that against a monthly plan. Against checkout widgets: they answer "what is the duties-included total at checkout", not "what code do we file and why". Against ERP trade modules, the SAP GTS alternative and ONESOURCE Global Trade alternative pages separate the classification job from the screening and export modules you would keep. Against other AI classifiers, there is a side-by-side for each: Gaia Dynamics, GingerControl, Quickcode, iCustoms and KYG Trade, and every vendor sits in one table on best HS code classification software. The full breakdown lives on the features page.
Honest about what AI classification is
Every result is a best-effort AI classification for guidance, labelled as such, never presented as a binding ruling. We publish no invented accuracy percentage. The product bet is different: showing the reasoning and the alternatives makes an AI answer reviewable, and a reviewable answer plus a human sign-off is a defensible process. Try it on the live demo with your hardest SKU and judge the rationale yourself; the tariff code lookup walkthrough shows what happens under the hood.
Priced like a tool, not a contract
Plans start at $59 a month for a solo importer and run to an Enterprise plan with 20,000 classifications, 50 seats and the REST API, all listed openly on the pricing page. The demo is free, no card required.
Put your classification process on software worth defending.