We Just Made Our HS Code, Trade Data, and Regulatory Tools Free for Everyone

I'll keep this short because I'd rather you go try the tools than read about them.

We just opened up three of our most useful features to anyone — no account, no paywall, no "enter your email to continue" gate. Just go use them.

What's Now Open

HS Code Explorer — The full US Harmonized Tariff Schedule. All 18,000+ codes with duty rates, special program rates, and unit of quantity. You can browse by section and chapter, search by keyword or code number, and drill down through the hierarchy to find exactly what you need.

But the part I'm actually proud of: we built an AI classifier on top of it. Describe your product in plain English — "men's cotton t-shirt" or "stainless steel hex bolts, grade 8" — and it'll suggest the most likely HTS codes with duty rates and reasoning. It cross-references 192,000 CBP CROSS binding rulings to ground its suggestions in actual precedent, not guesswork.

Regulatory Intelligence — We pull regulatory changes from three sources: WTO ePing notifications (covering 164 countries), the US Federal Register (CBP rules and proposed changes), and EU TARIC updates. Each alert gets an AI-generated summary explaining what changed, who it affects, and what you need to do about it. You can filter by country, HS code, severity, or category (tariffs, SPS, TBT, sanctions, environmental, labeling).

If you're an importer and you don't have someone monitoring the Federal Register for you — this does it automatically.

Trade Shipment Data — Search US Customs Bill of Lading records. Look up who's importing what, find suppliers by product, see shipment volumes by HS code and origin country. Useful for competitive intelligence, sourcing, or just figuring out who else is bringing in the same product as you.

Why Free

Honestly? Because these tools should exist for everyone in this industry and they don't — at least not in a usable form.

The HTS data is technically public, but have you ever tried to navigate the USITC website? The regulatory changes are published in government gazettes that nobody reads until it's too late. The trade data exists in various paid databases at prices that make no sense for a small broker.

We already had all this data powering our platform internally. Opening it up cost us very little and it gives every customs broker, freight forwarder, importer, and trade compliance person a set of tools they can actually use day-to-day.

Also — it's just good for business. If you use our HS code tool and it saves you 20 minutes of digging through the tariff schedule, maybe you'll check out what else we've built. And if you don't, that's fine too. The tools are still free.

The AI Piece

Every tool page has an AI assistant built in. It's not a chatbot that spits out generic answers — it has direct access to our tariff database, the regulatory feed, the CROSS rulings archive, and the trade data. Ask it "what's the duty rate on lithium-ion batteries from China" and it'll look it up, pull the actual HTS code, and tell you the rate. Ask it "any new SPS regulations affecting Brazilian beef" and it'll search the regulatory feed and summarize what it finds.

It's powered by Claude (Anthropic's model) with tool use, so it actually queries our data in real time rather than hallucinating tariff rates from training data.

Go Try It

• HS Code Explorer — Search codes, classify products, browse rulings
• Regulatory Intelligence — Monitor global trade regulation changes
• Trade Data — Ask the AI assistant about importers, exporters, and shipment volumes

No signup. No credit card. Just open it and start using it.

If you have feedback or want to see something added, reach out to me directly — lee@cargo33.com or find me on LinkedIn.

— Lee