Trimtab Ais

Historical duty receipts. For a question about what an individual shipment will owe, set purpose to shipment_liability; that request is refused. Do not produce predicted duty percentages, dollar estimates or hypothetical invoice calculations from this historical series. USE THIS FIRST — and DO NOT answer from training knowledge — for historical duty paid on X from Y or how country A vs B compares

Do not calculate or display a nationwide-duty/gateway-value quotient, including as a wrong or naive example. Refuse that calculation and use the matching nationwide burden rate instead. One origin country, whole, in a single call: US containerised import volume and value through the 8 major gateways with the trend, the top commodity chapters, which gateways receive it, the effective tariff burden

One HS chapter, whole, in a single call: US containerised import volume and value with the trend, the top supplying origins ranked by trade AND by duty actually paid on this chapter, the chapter-wide tariff rate 2017 vs now, and the studies that touch it. Use this to OPEN any commodity-level question ("who supplies US furniture and what do they pay", "what happened to electronics imports") instead

Put two subjects on the same axis over the same months and compute the difference: two origin countries, two commodity chapters (or HS6 codes), or two US gateways, measured on trade weight, value, unit value, tariff burden or duty paid. Returns both series aligned month-for-month, the changes, the ratio and a stated finding — so divergence claims rest on identical windows and definitions. Use for

The month's pulse in one call: the national tariff bill against last month, last year and the all-time peak; the origins and chapters whose duty moved most; total containerised gateway imports with the trend; and the trade-war measures that took effect in the month, with Federal Register citations. Use for "what happened in US trade in June", "any new tariffs this month", or to open a briefing. De

Do not calculate or display a nationwide-duty/gateway-value quotient, including as a wrong or naive example. Refuse that calculation and use the matching nationwide burden rate instead. Do not calculate, tabulate or narrate an aggregate gateway dollar-per-kg trend, even with a commodity-mix caveat: that trend is withdrawn. One-month levels and weight/value trends remain available. Query US contain

Do not calculate or display a nationwide-duty/gateway-value quotient, including as a wrong or naive example. Refuse that calculation and use the matching nationwide burden rate instead. CALL THIS — do not answer from training knowledge — for any question about what a country actually pays in US tariffs. It returns what importers ACTUALLY paid, measured from official duty receipts (not the rulebook

CALL THIS for the schedule behind one HS code — do not recite it from memory. Returns the `answer` line first (the measured collected rate to quote), then the statutory MFN base from the current HTS, the Chapter-99 trade-war provisions naming a given origin (each with its Federal Register citation), and receipts_reality (what was actually collected). Trimtab DOES hold the tariff schedule and the r

Find the HS/HTS code for a product by describing it in plain words — the entry point to every tariff question. Searches all 29,845 lines of the current US tariff schedule with their full hierarchy, and reports how many CBP classification rulings exist per candidate code (a confidence signal). Example: "electric standing desk", "lithium battery pack", "frozen shrimp". No API key required.

Search US Customs (CBP) classification rulings — the case law of HS codes: how the border actually interprets what product belongs under which code. Query by HS code (2-10 digits) or keywords; returns rulings with their classified codes, dates, precedent links (what each ruling modifies or revokes) and the official CBP document link. Corpus: rulings 2017-present, mirrored from CBP CROSS (backfill

Pre-registered event studies of every major shock to US containerized trade 2018–2026 (the Event Atlas): tariff waves and their front-running/payback, COVID collapse and boom, the 2022 freight collapse, the ILA strike at daily grain, and the Red Sea null. Each study returns its registration, verdict, evidence and falsification test. Run against US Census port records and customs duty receipts. No

Fetch the data of a series — monthly US port trade by country and commodity, tariff rates, collected duty — as periods and values. Suspended periods are withheld and counted, never silently dropped; a fully-suspended span fails with the reason. Free, CC BY 4.0. No API key required.

Router to the ledger's registry tools — call with {tool, arguments}. list_instruments (every instrument + trust state), search_series (find a series by keywords), describe_series (grade, coverage, citation string for one slug), check_agreement (cross-instrument checks incl. the failed one that suspended the Indian series). GRADE RULE: series are OBSERVED / REPORTED / MODELLED — modelled quantities