Vectelos is a customs tariff engine that classifies every line item on your commercial invoices against the official 13,801-line HTSUS — then stacks MFN base duty, Section 301 China tariffs, Section 232 metal surcharges, and the MPF and HMF into one pre-shipment landed cost estimate. Anti-dumping and countervailing duty is included as an estimate, flagged as one.
Companies importing machinery, electronics, and industrial components from China, Mexico, and Taiwan face compounding Section 301 and AD/CVD exposure. Vectelos quantifies exact exposure per SKU before you sign a purchase order.
Offer accurate landed cost analysis as a value-added service to your shipper clients. Pre-classify shipments in seconds and catch classification errors before CBP does — protecting clients from costly detentions and audits.
Speed up entry prep with algorithmic HTSUS classification on every line item. Vectelos generates advisory estimate packets with GRI classification rationale and legal authority citations, for your broker to review. Not CBP Form 7501 and not a filing.
Advanced software reads PDFs, scanned faxes, JPEGs, and low-resolution supplier quotations or proforma invoices.
Query expansion and dense vector retrieval across the official USITC tariff schedule — 13,801 lines, all 99 chapters — shortlist candidate subheadings for every line item. The classification is then made against that shortlist under the General Rules of Interpretation.
Deterministic rules engine — not AI guesswork — computes both Section 301 actions (the China List 1–4A action and the country-wide action at U.S. note 52) and Section 232 metal surcharges from the U.S. Notes to Chapter 99, plus the MPF and HMF, to the cent. The IEEPA reciprocal tariffs were struck down by the Supreme Court on 20 February 2026 and are not applied.
Uploaded documents are never written to disk — they are read from memory and discarded. A completed analysis is cleared the moment you download it, and within 30 minutes at most (24 hours if your own system collects it over the API). Nothing is used for model training.
Download a formatted PDF with GRI classification rationale, legal authority citations, and a statement of limitations. An advisory document for your broker to review — not CBP Form 7501, and not a filing.
Anti-dumping and countervailing duties are estimated and flagged as an estimate. Those rates are set per case and per exporter in Commerce Department orders and revised on review — a licensed broker confirms them.
OpenAPI-documented REST endpoints with signed webhooks for programmatic integration. ERP integrations are built together with the customers who need them.
Compare a supplier quotation against the final commercial invoice line by line and flag what moved — classification, country of origin, or valuation — before you file.
Drag and drop any PDF, JPG, or PNG — proforma invoices, commercial invoices, packing lists, or supplier quotations in any layout.
Advanced software identifies every line item, quantity, unit price, country of origin, and goods description with structured precision.
The deterministic compiler assigns candidate HTSUS codes and stacks MFN base duty + Section 301 + Section 232 + MPF + HMF per line item, with AD/CVD added as an estimate.
Export a formatted PDF with full GRI rationale, authority citations, and a statement of limitations — for your customs broker to review. Not CBP Form 7501.
Plain answers to the questions importers are actually asking this quarter, written against the current tariff schedule and re-checked when it changes. Every figure is sourced and reproducible.
Connect Claude, Cursor, Codex or Gemini CLI to a duty server and read the answer line by line. A worked two-line entry: $47,500 of goods, $1,097.70 of base duty, $17,884.12 payable once the trade remedies and fees are added.
The review most importers have never run, in the order that finds the money fastest. Half a day with a spreadsheet and free public data — and the liability for those codes sits with you, not your broker.
They stack, and on top of the base rate. A refrigerator with a duty-free base rate lands at 50% from China. Worked examples at current rates, plus the 15% metal-weight test that can remove the 232 duty entirely.
The Supreme Court voided the IEEPA tariffs and CBP is refunding them — but the schedule still prints those duties, and a near-identical Chapter 99 charge is Section 301 and is not refundable. How to tell them apart on your own entries.
In 61.4% of tariff subheadings with multiple rate-bearing lines, the sibling lines disagree — by as much as 40.5 points. An analysis of all 13,801 published lines, and how to check whether your codes sit on the wrong side of a spread.
Enter any HTS code and see the duty rates its subheading still hasn't settled, and what that gap is worth against your annual volume. Three in four codes come back clean. The rest are worth a conversation with your broker.
Compute US import duty from Claude, Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code, Codex or Gemini CLI. Give your agent an HTS code, origin and value; it gets back the base rate, every Section 301, 232 and note 52 remedy stacked on it, and the entry fees, or a refusal that says what is missing. 100 checks free. See the worked example.
Written by the team that maintains the duty engine. No sign-up, no paywall.
Vectelos was built by the enterprise software division of Amplified Engineering — a global industrial IoT firm that has cleared millions of dollars in industrial hardware across global borders. We solved this problem for ourselves first.
We combine a Google Gemini multimodal vision for document extraction with a deterministic tariff rules compiler for duty calculation. AI only extracts. Math compiles. Duty rates come from the statutory notes, not the model.
Trade documents contain your most sensitive commercial data — supplier pricing, BOM data, proprietary part numbers. Uploaded files are never written to disk. A completed analysis is cleared the moment you download it, within 30 minutes at most — 24 hours if your own system collects it over the API — and we keep no copy of your document data. Nothing is used for AI training.
25 invoice analyses a month. No credit card required. No infrastructure to deploy. A pre-shipment landed cost estimate in under 60 seconds from sign-up to first result.