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Because the arithmetic there is worse, and worse in a way nobody is watching. US customs value excludes freight, so the basis error that dominates European importing simply is not the story. The story is Chapter 99: a Section 232 derivative heading charging 25% on the full customs value of a stainless-steel article, sitting on top of a 2% rate, on a commodity code that never appeared on any Section 301 list. The official machine-readable tariff export does not carry it. We have read that file — its Additional Duties column is empty on every one of the 955 consumer-goods rows and 125 primary-steel rows we checked, and it still prints live rates for 73 Chapter 99 headings that were abolished in February. It is wrong in both directions at once.

We are not claiming to know tariffs better than anyone else. That claim is disproved in one browser tab — Zonos publishes a perfectly accurate current picture for free, and so do others. What nobody else has is your filed entry. The number that decides whether your margin is real is not the published rate; it is what was actually assessed on your entry summary, line by line, against goods you can identify. That is the only thing here that is genuinely ours to do, and it is why the product reconciles rather than advises.

JG Core Ltd is an English company, registered in England & Wales, and the founder works from the UK. You would find that out in a minute on Companies House, so here it is in the first sentence instead. The market we are building for is US importers of record, and the UK is the second market rather than the first.

The question underneath that is a fair one: what can a small overseas company actually do with your customs data? The answer is a short list, and it is short by architecture rather than by promise. Your entry lines reach us because you schedule an ITRAC report inside your own ACE account, to an address you choose, and you delete the schedule when you want it to stop. We hold no CBP credential, no filer code and no power of attorney. We cannot transmit anything to CBP on your behalf and we cannot retrieve anything either. If this company vanished tomorrow, nothing of yours would have to be unwound — the report simply stops going out. The security page sets out the whole list, and marks which claims you can verify for yourself today.

The audit is open and delivered by hand, on your own entry summaries. The software is in build, and the order is deliberate: reconcile real entries first, learn what the documents actually look like, then automate what we have already done by hand. Come in at this stage and you get the founder on the phone and a price that will not be offered later.

What follows from it is the shape of the product, and CBP has drawn the line in its own rulings. Auditing entries that have already been filed, and telling you what they say, is expressly permitted work for an unlicensed party. Telling you what to put on an entry that has not been filed yet is not, and a disclaimer does not save it. So we will not propose a commodity code from a product description, we will not file anything, we will not give classification advice in or out of hours, and where our output disagrees with your licensed broker, your broker governs — which is written into the terms as clause 10, not printed in a footer.

We also will not sell your data to anyone, aggregated, anonymised or otherwise. For marketplace-derived data that is not only a promise; Amazon’s acceptable-use policy forbids it, which is a more reliable guarantee than our good intentions.