Know the real landed cost of every garment before you place the order.
Tariffwright finds the customs facts missing from your product catalog, collects them from your suppliers, and turns them into a classification and landed-cost record your broker can actually use — with the evidence attached.
The problem is not the tariff code. It is everything the code depends on.
Classifying a garment needs facts most catalogs do not carry: exact fibre percentages, knitted or woven, who it is made for, whether it is coated, where it was made. Those facts sit in tech packs, supplier chat threads, spreadsheets and one person's memory.
Tools that look up an HS code start after you have assembled all of that. Tariffwright starts before.
Why a wrong duty rate is so easy to miss
While building this, we hand-wrote 23 apparel duty rates from what looked authoritative, then checked them against the official CBSA schedule.
Six of the 23 were wrong. Babies' garments under headings 6111 and 6209 are duty-free; the plausible-looking figure was 17–18%. On a CAD 50,000 order that single mistake invents about CAD 9,000 of duty that does not exist — and it looks completely reasonable on the page.
It tells you when it does not know
Anything can produce a tariff code. The harder and more useful behaviour is declining to.
- If a missing fact would change the answer, it names the fact, explains how the answer would change, and offers to ask your supplier — instead of picking the likely option.
- If your record supports only a 6-digit heading and entry needs the full national line, it says so and names the subdivisions it cannot choose between.
- If two confirmed sources disagree, it stops rather than averaging them.
- Every suggestion carries its jurisdiction, effective date, source version and the evidence it used, so a broker can check the reasoning rather than trust it.
A suggestion is never an approval. A person with explicit approval authority turns a classification into the record, and that decision is recorded against the exact snapshot of facts it was made on.
Where this is
Early, and honestly so. The full workflow works end to end today — Canada and the United States, apparel chapters 61 and 62 — and it is being used in founder-run catalog audits rather than sold as a finished product.
Before a general paid launch, a qualified customs professional will review the evaluation set. Until that has happened, any accuracy figure would measure the system agreeing with itself, so we publish none.
Not legal advice
Tariffwright provides product-data organization, classification suggestions, and cost-planning tools. Suggestions are based on the information and source versions shown and may be incomplete or incorrect. They are not legal advice, a customs ruling, or a guarantee of duty treatment or admissibility. The importer remains responsible for its declarations and should obtain qualified customs or legal review where appropriate.