Tariff Classification Engineering Programs
What is Tariff Classification Engineering?
For the vast majority of importers and their trade chain partners, the process of establishing the landed cost of your goods, starts by analyzing your finished products to determine the best possible classification and duty rate available.
A Tariff Engineering Program takes the opposite approach, by instead examining the many stages of the product's design & development cycle, with the lowest possible duty rate already in mind.
With a slight product design modification, packaging adjustment, and/or marketing modification, this program can produce significant gains in market share for your products, and savings in your landed costs.
How Does This Program Work?
Did you know that a Customs Administration will look well beyond your physical product when determining the H.S. Classification and duty rate that you should be paying?
They are trained to analyze and take into consideration many aspects of your product. Some examples include:
- Marketing material
- Website content
- Owner’s manuals and product instruction guides
- How your product is packaged for retail sale
- Other items that might be included in the retail package
A Customs Administration’s primary function is to protect the government's revenue, so they will use Tariff Engineering techniques to determine the highest duty rates possible for your goods. Our program simply applies these same techniques to identify the lowest possible duty rates for your products.
Flexible, Scalable Solution with Minimal Impact to Your Team
Dominion's Rulings & Appeals Department is tasked with one simply goal, to ensure that the team understands the customs legislation & regulations better than the policymakers who wrote them. That is why this team is entrusted to deliver this program for you.
Since they are communicating with Customs Administrations on a daily basis, they thoroughly understand what these administrations are specifically looking for when rendering a ruling decision, and use this information to build the strongest, most compelling position on your behalf.
Simply let us know which product lines you wish us to review, and our team will take it from there. We will deconstruct your product, its packaging, and how it is marketed to identify potential opportunities to lower your duty rates.
The Dominion Approach
Select the products and/or product lines that you are interested in moving into our Tariff Classification Engineering Program, and we take care of the rest. Our interactive and customizable reporting provides you with full visibility and transparency to monitor our progress in real-time.
Providing you with the ability to give us feedback, or ask us any questions when it is convenient for you. You can stay focused on your day-to-day activities while monitoring the progress of our work, on your schedule.
