Auryth Customs
By invitationUK and EU tariff classification, with the reasoning attached.
Describe the goods and get the UK and the EU code, each checked as a declarable line in its own tariff, with the notes and rulings that decide it and the duty and measures in force. For customs brokers, declarants and trade compliance staff.
- UK and EU side by side
- Every code checked as declarable
- Duty and measures in force
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E-bike batteries for Great Britain and the EU
A client imports lithium-ion battery packs for e-bikes into Great Britain and the EU. They could fall under heading 8507, or under 8714 as bicycle parts. The two tariffs agree to six digits and then go their own way. The section and chapter notes decide it, the CN Explanatory Notes may point one way and a ruling the other, and every HMRC ruling or EU BTI binds only its holder, and only for three years. Once the code is settled, a suspension or an end-use relief can still change what the goods cost. Auryth Customs works through the notes and the rulings and gives each code with its reasoning, for you to check before you declare.
What makes it different
Three things a general-purpose AI assistant does not do, and a tariff lookup leaves to you.
Every code checked as declarable
Every code the answer gives is checked against its own tariff as a declarable line. The answer cites the heading, the section or chapter note that decides it, and each subheading step under GIR 6.
Two tariffs, kept apart
The UK and the EU share the six-digit Harmonized System and part ways after it. The answer gives each code separately, with its own reasoning, so you can see where the two diverge.
Duty and measures, from the tariff data
Under every classification are the measures in force for the codes it gives, from the third-country duty and suspensions to end-use relief, quotas, preferences and trade defence, each with its legal basis, its dates and what it requires. This block is taken from the tariff data after the answer is written; the language model does not produce it.
From goods to a code you can defend
What happens between describing the goods and signing the declaration.
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Describe the goods
You can write in English, Dutch, French or German. Say what the goods are, what they are made of, how they are presented and what they are for, and whether you need the UK code, the EU code or both.
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Read the codes and the reasoning
The answer gives each code with the GIR reasoning and the rulings it weighed. Under it sit the duty and measures in force, the source list and the research trail.
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Check at the source, then declare
Open any heading, note or ruling from the answer and read it yourself before you sign the declaration.
What you can do with it
Built around the work of classifying goods.
Search the tariff and the rulings
Go straight to a heading, a note or a ruling. Each is stored whole: a heading with every line beneath it, a note in full, a ruling with the administration's justification.
Rulings as evidence, with their status
HMRC Advance Tariff Rulings and EU BTIs are cited as evidence of how the administration reasoned, not as the legal authority. A ruling that has expired or been invalidated is marked as such.
A German BTI from an English question
EU rulings are written in the language of the member state that issued them. The answer searches by meaning across languages, so a question in English can still surface a ruling written in German, French or Italian.
Attach the specification
Add a datasheet or a product specification and ask about those goods. The facts that decide a code are often in it.
Export the classification
Take the classification out as PDF or Word, with its sources, for the file or for the client.
Draft the explanation
Ask for the e-mail that explains the code to the client. It comes back as a draft you can edit, send, or download as Word.
What is in it, and what is not
The text below is taken word for word from the contract. It sets out what the tool covers and where it stops, so you can check it against the goods you classify.
Who it is for
Auryth Customs is a professional tool, licensed for the people listed below, who sign customs declarations or advise on them. It is not meant for consumers.
private-sector customs and trade professionals: customs brokers and representatives, declarants, trade compliance officers at importers and exporters, and advisers in classification disputes
What it searches
the UK Trade Tariff and the EU tariff as applied in Northern Ireland (headings, section and chapter notes, with duties and measures), EU classification regulations, the CN Explanatory Notes, HMRC classification guidance and tariff notices, HMRC advance tariff rulings, EU binding tariff information (BTI) and the classification case law of the Court of Justice and the UK tax tribunals
What it does not contain
The Source Library covers the UK and EU customs tariffs only: no other country's tariff, and no customs legislation beyond the tariff and the EU classification regulations, so not the Union Customs Code and not the UK rules on customs procedures, valuation or origin. It does not use the Explanatory Notes to the World Customs Organization's Harmonized System, on which HMRC bases most of its rulings. It holds no advisory or product-level material.
The EU tariff is read in the version the United Kingdom publishes for Northern Ireland, not from the Union's own TARIC database. The Source Library is in English, except EU binding tariff information, which is in the language of the Member State that issued it. The same question in a different language can produce a different result.
What it is not
legal, tax, customs, accounting, technical, construction or financial advice
Where your questions go
Your questions describe a client's goods and sometimes their supply chain. This is where they are processed and what happens to them.
Hosted in Europe
Auryth Customs is hosted in Europe. The provider of the language model that writes the answers is named in the privacy policy.
Not used for training
What you type is not used to train models. The privacy policy states how that is secured with each provider.
Retention periods and processors
The privacy policy lists how long data is kept, every processor by name, what is stored in your browser and on what legal basis.
Try it on goods you have already classified
Compare its codes and reasoning with the classification you made and argued yourself.
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