Disclaimer and product boundaries

The short version

TariffsChart is a planning and research site. It helps you organize tariff-rate sources, landed-cost assumptions, country-rate comparisons, and policy-change context before you file, buy inventory, quote customers, or ask a professional for review.

TariffsChart 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:

• Search HS/HTS references and review source-backed base-duty fields when available.
• Compare country-level historical tariff indicators.
• Review selected WTO HS6 recent schedule samples for high-intent countries and products.
• Estimate landed cost from user-entered rates and costs.
• Track Federal Register and trade-policy notices that may affect tariff planning.
• Preserve source URLs, retrieval dates, and calculation assumptions in a planning note or Quick Check report.
• Identify open questions to send to a licensed customs broker, trade counsel, tax advisor, or other qualified professional.

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 links are evidence, not certification

A source link and retrieval date tell you where an assumption came from. They do 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 monitoring is a review prompt

A tariff policy or source-monitor alert means a 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 or cited source record, and ask a qualified professional what the change means for your product.

Quick Check reports are planning summaries

The $29 Import Duty Quick Check is a planning report for one product and route. It may organize candidate HS/HTS context, official source links, likely tariff layers to review, and open questions. It is not a legal opinion, customs ruling, broker instruction, tax opinion, final classification, or guarantee of duty.

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, source-linked, easier to compare, and easier to review.