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Industrial sourcing and import guides
Primary-source-cited guides for US industrial sourcing and import teams. Build RFQs, compare manufacturers, evaluate landed cost, and investigate tariff and AD/CVD risk.
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Primary-source-cited guides for US industrial sourcing and import teams. Build RFQs, compare manufacturers, evaluate landed cost, and investigate tariff and AD/CVD risk.
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Implementation playbook for showing landed cost (duty + fees) at checkout after the August 2025 de minimis suspension. Decision matrix by volume, runnable Tandom API code, postal vs courier math, and a contrarian callout for when you should NOT integrate.
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Honest provider comparison across Zonos, Shopify Markets DDP, Easyship, Passport, Avalara CrossBorder, and Tandom. Pricing, integration breadth, AD/CVD coverage, DDP guarantee fine print, and decision framework by use case.
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A practical manual workflow for US industrial importers to monitor CBP CSMS messages, identify affected HTS codes, verify duty impact, and document the handoff.
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Where trade compliance APIs can support a filing workflow, and where Tandom's current public surface stops: HTS research, duty calculation, AD/CVD screening, and read-only MCP tools.
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Drop the Tandom Duty Calculator API into a TMS, broker software, or in-house ERP. Code samples, the response shape, and ACE reporting order, in 2026.
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A practical CSV workflow for cleaning product descriptions, searching current HTS references, and routing every candidate code to documented human review.
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A disciplined second-pass workflow for checking filed codes, current legal text, duty layers, and trade-risk signals without pretending an API replaces judgment.
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A manual, reviewable workflow for US industrial importers to turn a commercial invoice into structured product, origin, valuation, HTS, and duty inputs.
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Connect Claude to Tandom's read-only AD/CVD lookup over Model Context Protocol. Current tool catalog, JSON-RPC request shapes, and a worked example, in 2026.
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A prompt and verification workflow that uses current read-only HTS tools to produce a candidate brief—not a made-up final classification.
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