AI HTS classification, down to the 10-digit line

You describe the product in your own words. Gateway AI picks the tariff headings that could hold it, then reads the official text of those headings in the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States, the Section and Chapter Notes that decide between them, and CBP rulings on similar products. When the right line depends on a fact your description leaves out, such as the fiber content or what the product is used for, it asks. It then answers with a 10-digit line and the reason at every level, from the chapter down. It can only answer with a line printed in the current schedule, so it never makes up a code.

No. It is a planning answer for budgeting, quoting and preparing an entry. Under 19 U.S.C. 1484 the importer of record must use reasonable care to classify its goods, and only a binding ruling issued by CBP under 19 CFR Part 177 binds CBP on a classification. When a line carries real money or risk, have a licensed customs broker confirm it, or ask CBP for a binding ruling.

The tariff schedule classifies goods by what they are: their material, how they are made, what they are for and sometimes who they are for. A cotton T-shirt for men and one for women sit on different lines. When your description does not settle a fact that changes the line, Gateway AI asks, at most two questions at a time. If you do not know an answer, choose Not sure to see what the options mean. If you still cannot tell, Gateway AI classifies on an assumption it lists with the result, so you can check it.

From CBP's Customs Rulings Online Search System (CROSS) at rulings.cbp.gov, where CBP publishes its classification rulings. Gateway AI reads rulings on similar products while it classifies. Once it has a line, it looks for a ruling that cites that line, quotes the passage where CBP gives its classification and links to the full ruling. A ruling binds CBP only for the transaction it describes, but it is the best public evidence of how CBP classifies a product like yours.

It shows the general duty rate printed on the line. What you actually pay also depends on where the goods come from: Section 301, Section 232, antidumping and countervailing duties, trade agreements and CBP fees all turn on the country of origin. Choose the country under the result and open the line in the Gateway tariff calculator to see the full duty.

Up to 10 classifications a day from one IP address are free, with no sign-up. Answering the questions Gateway AI asks about a product does not use another classification. Gateway Lines customers classify without a limit.

Gateway AI reads it to classify the product. We keep the first 100 characters, a one-line summary of the product, the line it was classified into and your IP address, to count the daily allowance and to see which products people classify. Leave confidential details such as supplier names, prices and customer names out of the description: classifying a product never needs them.

If the description is not a product, or Gateway AI cannot place it on a line it can show you in the schedule, it says so instead of guessing. Add what the product is made of and what it is used for, and try again.