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The information provided by CHBMadison, including but not limited to HTS classifications, duty rates, tariff surcharges, landed cost estimates, and any AI-generated classifications, is for informational purposes only and is not guaranteed to be accurate, complete, or current.

Tariff data, duty rates, and trade regulations change frequently. The data presented on this site may contain errors, omissions, or outdated information. You should not rely on this tool as the sole basis for any customs, import, or trade compliance decisions.

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1. The data provided may be incorrect or incomplete.
2. CHBMadison is not a licensed customs broker and does not provide legal or trade compliance advice.
3. You will not hold CHBMadison, its owners, or operators liable for any losses, penalties, or damages arising from the use of this tool.
4. You are solely responsible for verifying all tariff classifications and duty calculations with the appropriate government authorities (e.g., U.S. Customs and Border Protection, USITC) before making any import or compliance decisions.

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Trade Discovery

Current State & Pain Points

1. Walk me through how your team manages trade compliance today — what does that process look like end to end?

2. What systems are you currently using for import/export operations, compliance, and trade documentation?

3. How are your ERP, TMS, and compliance tools integrated today — or are they siloed?

4. How many countries are you importing from or exporting to, and which trade lanes are most critical to your business?

5. What’s your annual import/export volume in terms of shipments, SKUs, and duty spend?

6. Do you have a dedicated trade compliance team, or is this managed within logistics, legal, or finance?

7. What are the biggest headaches your team faces with trade compliance today?

8. Have you experienced delays, penalties, or holds at customs in the last 12–18 months? What caused them?

9. How much manual work is involved in your current classification or license determination process?

10. Where do errors or bottlenecks most commonly occur — classification, documentation, duty calculation, or something else?

Compliance & Risk

11. Are you confident your HTS/HS codes are accurate and up to date across all product lines?

12. How do you stay current with changes to trade regulations, tariffs, and sanctions lists?

13. How do you currently screen parties against denied party and sanctions lists — how often, and using what tool?

14. Have you had any export control or OFAC compliance issues or close calls?

15. How are you managing FTA (Free Trade Agreement) qualification and duty savings opportunities today?

16. What’s your process for managing restricted commodity or dual-use classifications?

17. How are you handling country of origin determinations — is this automated or manual?

18. How does your compliance team audit or verify the accuracy of classifications across business units?

Financial Impact

19. Do you have visibility into what you’re actually spending on duties and taxes across all import lanes?

20. Are you capturing all available duty savings through FTAs, first sale valuation, or bonded warehouses?

21. How does trade compliance impact your landed cost calculations and product pricing decisions?

22. What’s the cost — in time and resources — of your current manual compliance processes?

23. Have you quantified the cost of compliance errors, delays, or missed FTA opportunities?

Growth & Strategy

24. How does trade complexity factor into decisions about new market entry or supplier selection?

25. Are you expanding into new markets or adding new product lines in the next 12–24 months?

26. How do current trade complexities create friction for your growth plans?

27. How is your trade compliance infrastructure keeping pace with your business growth?

28. Are tariff changes or trade policy uncertainty affecting your supply chain strategy?

29. What does success look like for your trade operations in the next 2 years?

30. Is there a strategic initiative — reshoring, nearshoring, diversification — that trade automation would support?

Technology & Evaluation

31. What ERP platform are you on, and how tightly is it integrated with your trade compliance processes today?

32. What does your current tech stack look like — WMS, TMS, ERP, broker portal, compliance tool?

33. How important is real-time data exchange between your trade system and your ERP or logistics platforms?

34. Have you evaluated other GTM solutions? What did you like or not like about them?

35. What does your IT team’s bandwidth look like for implementation and integration projects?

Decision & Next Steps

36. Who else is involved in evaluating a solution like this — IT, legal, finance, supply chain leadership?

37. What would make you choose one GTM provider over another — what matters most to you?

38. On a scale of 1–10, how big of a priority is improving your trade compliance operations this year?

39. If you could fix one thing about your current trade process tomorrow, what would it be?

40. Are there any compliance or cost events coming up — new tariffs, audits, market launches — that are creating urgency?

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