Disclaimer and product boundaries

The short version

TariffsChart is a planning and recordkeeping tool. It helps you structure tariff and landed-cost assumptions before you file, buy inventory, quote customers, or ask a broker for review. It does not provide legal, tax, customs, brokerage, valuation, classification, freight-forwarding, financial, or government services.

You should not treat any TariffsChart result as a final duty calculation, customs ruling, broker instruction, tax opinion, legal opinion, product admissibility decision, or guaranteed landed cost.

What TariffsChart can do

TariffsChart can help you:

• Organize shipment assumptions.
• Estimate landed cost from user-entered rates and costs.
• Preserve source URLs and capture dates.
• Monitor allowlisted official sources and create alerts when fingerprints change or checks need attention.
• Compare alternate origin, freight, tariff, and margin scenarios.
• Save SKU classification assumptions.
• Export a broker-review packet that lists the assumptions and open questions.
• Create a private broker-review link for a broker or internal reviewer to record a workflow response.
• Keep a repeatable workflow so your team does not lose context between sourcing, finance, operations, and broker review.

What TariffsChart does not do

TariffsChart does not:

• Act as a customs broker, attorney, tax advisor, accountant, freight forwarder, importer of record, government agency, or agent.
• File customs entries or transmit documents to customs authorities.
• Obtain binding rulings, licenses, permits, exclusions, or government approvals.
• Guarantee HS/HTS classification, duty rate, import tax, admissibility, origin, valuation, documentation, delivery timing, margin, or final landed cost.
• Automatically determine whether AD/CVD, Section 301, Chapter 99, safeguards, quotas, exclusions, free-trade-agreement rates, sanctions, export controls, product safety rules, or partner-government-agency requirements apply.
• Replace official sources or independent review by qualified professionals.

What users must verify

Before relying on an estimate, verify at minimum:

• Full HS/HTS classification and product-specific classification facts.
• Country of origin and origin marking requirements.
• Customs valuation and Incoterms treatment.
• Whether freight and insurance belong in the dutiable value for the destination rules.
• Base duty, special duty, additional tariff, VAT/GST/import tax, and fixed fees.
• Trade remedies, Chapter 99 classifications, AD/CVD, safeguards, quotas, exclusions, and preference programs.
• Product admissibility, permits, licenses, product safety rules, and partner-government-agency requirements.
• Final carrier, broker, warehouse, platform, payment, demurrage, detention, and storage fees.

Source snapshots are evidence, not certification

A source snapshot records where an assumption came from. It may include a source URL, title, type, route, HS/HTS code, capture date, confidence label, and notes.

A source snapshot does not mean the source is complete, current, legally binding, correctly interpreted, or applicable to your shipment. Even official sources can require product-specific interpretation or additional checks.

Change alerts are review prompts, not determinations

A source monitor compares a saved official-source fingerprint against a later check. A tariff change alert means the monitored source changed, could not be checked, or needs attention. It does not mean TariffsChart has determined that a duty rate, Chapter 99 instruction, Section 301 treatment, AD/CVD scope, exclusion, admissibility rule, valuation rule, or filing instruction changed.

Treat every alert as a prompt to open the official source, compare it with the saved snapshot, and ask a qualified professional what the change means for the affected scenario or SKU.

Scenario statuses are workflow labels

Statuses such as draft, broker-review, confirmed, and broker-confirmed are workflow labels that users control. They do not mean TariffsChart has certified the scenario. “Confirmed” should mean your team has recorded a review decision; it is not a TariffsChart warranty.

Broker packets and review links are handoff tools

Broker-review packets and private review links are designed to make a review conversation easier. They are not final import declarations, filing instructions, legal opinions, tax opinions, customs rulings, or proof that a classification or rate is correct.

A reviewer response such as confirmed or needs-info is a workflow record supplied by the reviewer. It is not a certification by TariffsChart. A broker or qualified reviewer should independently verify the product facts, classification, valuation, origin, duty rates, taxes, fees, and filing requirements before any entry or binding business decision.

Why this boundary matters

Tariff decisions affect cash flow, margins, compliance exposure, shipment timing, customer pricing, and potential penalties. The value of TariffsChart is not to replace professional judgment. The value is to make assumptions visible, comparable, source-linked, exportable, and easier to review.

Regulatory context: U.S. example

For U.S. imports, the International Trade Administration describes customs brokers as licensed and regulated by U.S. Customs and Border Protection and as professionals who help importers with entry, admissibility, classification, valuation, duties, taxes, and related charges. CBP guidance also places reasonable-care responsibilities on the importer of record for entry, classification, valuation, and related information.

That is why TariffsChart intentionally treats calculations, source snapshots, change alerts, statuses, broker packets, and review links as planning records and review aids—not final professional determinations.

Helpful official references:

• Trade.gov: Customs Brokers and Freight Forwarders
• CBP: Importing into the United States
• eCFR: 19 CFR Part 111 — Customs Brokers

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