# GingerControl > GingerControl builds GingerOS, the AI trade compliance platform that runs on your process and the data you have, ERP or not: every classification carries its reason, and every change in your company triggers its own compliance recheck (tariffs, classification, export controls and more). Next to it, the GingerLite tools (Classification Researcher, Export Control Classifier, Tariff Calculator, Compliance Radar and Parts Library) work on their own at app.gingercontrol.com; the Classification + Tariff Calculation API is for enterprise customers. ## Key facts - Company: GingerControl is the trade name of Flowyth Co., a Delaware corporation, founded in 2025 in Austin, Texas, by Chen Cui (co-founder and CEO) and Sean Yu (co-founder). Backed VC led its $2.1M pre-seed round, announced in May 2026. - Category: an AI trade compliance platform (trade compliance software) for import- and export-heavy manufacturers and multi-entity groups. - GingerOS: runs on each customer's process and the data they have, ERP or not. It reads the customer's ERP, PLM and supplier records and watches new rules, rechecks every SKU a change touches, asks for missing product facts before it suggests an HTS code, records the reasoning for a named person's approval, rechecks export control, FTA eligibility and origin documents, and writes results back to the ERP only where the customer approves, with an audit trail. - Data starting point: GingerOS does not need an ERP. For a customer without one, GingerControl sets up the data storage and designs a data flow for the team; messy data is cleaned and organized before the AI system is built. GingerOS reads anything in text or image form, including emails, PDFs, Excel files, scanned documents and photos; it does not read video. - GingerLite: the GingerControl app at app.gingercontrol.com for customs brokers and small businesses, with the Classification Researcher, Export Control Classifier, Tariff Calculator, Compliance Radar and Parts Library. The Classification + Tariff Calculation API (120 items per call by default, sized to each customer's throughput), batch classification and BOM upload are for GingerOS enterprise customers. - Pricing: GingerOS is quoted per project, based on its complexity, after the Prototype Week (one call, then a clickable prototype of your own flow in three days). The GingerLite app is $150 a month for 300 credits; each classification and each Tariff Calculator run uses credits, with top-ups if they run out. The five customs calculators at /tools and the Policy Briefings are free. - Coverage: import classification for the United States (10-digit HTS codes) and Canada (10-digit classification numbers under the Customs Tariff), and for the European Union in beta (8-digit CN codes); duty calculation for U.S. imports; export control classification under the EAR and the Commerce Control List (ITAR and the USML are not covered). - Boundaries: GingerControl is not a customs broker, does not file entries, is not the importer of record and does not give legal advice. Its classifications are for general reference, educational, and planning purposes; a licensed customs broker reviews a classification before it goes on an entry. - Data: customer data is never used to train AI models; it is encrypted in transit and at rest. ## Start here - [GingerControl home](https://gingercontrol.com): GingerControl builds GingerOS, AI trade compliance software that runs on your process and the data you have, ERP or not. Every HTS code keeps its reason. - [GingerOS](https://gingercontrol.com/how/technical): GingerOS reads the ERP, spreadsheets, emails and PDFs your teams already use, researches each change, and brings you the decision to approve. - [Business engagement](https://gingercontrol.com/how/engagement): Trade compliance software implementation in five phases, typically 8 to 16 weeks: a prototype of your own flow first, messy data sorted before the build. - [Finance](https://gingercontrol.com/who/finance): When a notice lands, you get the cost by SKU, plant and line, with the basis behind every number. - [IT](https://gingercontrol.com/who/it): GingerOS reads what compliance needs from the systems you have, or sets up your data storage if you have no ERP. Your master data stays where it is. - [Procurement & supply chain](https://gingercontrol.com/who/procurement): GingerOS shows the origin and duty effect next to the price, first when you compare bids and again inside the PO, before you save. A warning, never a gate. - [Trade compliance](https://gingercontrol.com/who/compliance): GingerOS records the basis of classification the moment a code is decided, brings back the SKUs a change touches, and keeps the final say with you. - [Case studies](https://gingercontrol.com/why/case-study): How Jet Import Brokers went from a day or two per client at every tariff update to about 30 minutes for all, and what its clients now receive. - [How we test](https://gingercontrol.com/why/how-we-test): We test GingerOS the way you’d audit a classification: real CBP rulings, answers sealed, one round of questions, full-code matches only. Here is every step. - [Education](https://gingercontrol.com/why/education): Webinars, field guides, the blog, the forum, the game and the tools, on one shelf. Everything to read and watch is free. - [About us](https://gingercontrol.com/why/about): GingerControl (Flowyth Co., Austin, 2025) builds GingerOS, the AI trade compliance platform that runs on your process and the data you have, ERP or not. ## Products - [Classification Researcher](https://gingercontrol.com/products/hts-classifier): Get a 10-digit code for U.S. or Canadian imports, or an EU CN code in beta, with the GRI reasoning behind it. Ginger asks what your spec sheet leaves out. - [Export Control Classifier](https://gingercontrol.com/products/export-control): An ECCN classification tool that reads your datasheet, narrows the Commerce Control List to one entry, and writes a report your export counsel can check. - [Tariff Calculator](https://gingercontrol.com/products/tariff-calculator): Enter an HTS code, value and entry date to compare US import duty by country, with the base rate, each Section 232 and 301 line, MPF and HMF. - [Compliance Radar](https://gingercontrol.com/products/compliance-radar): Compliance Radar is a tariff tracker for your own parts: it checks new U.S. trade notices against your HTS codes and lists what to redo by the effective date. - [Parts Library](https://gingercontrol.com/products/product-sandbox): Compare landed cost for every HTS candidate from every source country in one matrix, then save your pick with the date and the numbers behind it. - [Classification + Tariff Calculation API](https://gingercontrol.com/products/api-intro): Send a product description and its origin. One call returns a 10-digit HTS code and its U.S. duty layers as JSON, 120 items per batch by default. - [API reference](https://gingercontrol.com/products/openapi): Reference for GingerControl's Classification + Tariff Calculation API: single and batch endpoints, request and response fields, errors and curl examples. ## Services - [Compliance audit](https://gingercontrol.com/services/compliance-audit): A 30-minute customs compliance review: answer five questions, then we show where your entities, brokers and records disagree and what to fix first. - [Duty drawback](https://gingercontrol.com/services/duty-drawback): Duty drawback runs on records. GingerControl matches each export to the import entry that paid duty, builds the claim file and tracks every claim. - [IEEPA refund](https://gingercontrol.com/services/ieepa-refund): Check your ES-003 for IEEPA duties paid and sort entries by refund route and deadline. We prepare the refund file; our licensed refund partner files it. - [PO reconciliation](https://gingercontrol.com/services/po-reconciliation): PO reconciliation that matches purchase orders, invoices, receipts and import entries line by line, and keeps a record of every variance until it closes. - [Trade advisory](https://gingercontrol.com/services/trade-advisory): Trade compliance consulting from senior practitioners: classification, tariffs, IEEPA refunds and CBP requests, as a second pair of eyes. Not legal advice. ## Free tools - [Customs bond calculator](https://gingercontrol.com/tools/customs-bond-calculator): Size a U.S. customs bond the way CBP does: a continuous bond is the greater of $50,000 or 10% of last year's duties, taxes and fees, rounded up. - [FTZ savings estimator](https://gingercontrol.com/tools/ftz-savings-estimator): Estimate the yearly duty a foreign-trade zone could save: inverted tariff, scrap, duty deferral and exports, using the ITA's Duty Savings Estimator formulas. - [IEEPA refund estimator](https://gingercontrol.com/tools/ieepa-refund-estimator): Estimate the IEEPA duties you paid from February 2025 to February 23, 2026, and check which refund route each entry can take now, starting with CAPE. - [MPF calculator](https://gingercontrol.com/tools/mpf-calculator): MPF is 0.3464% of entered value: $34.58 minimum and $670.86 maximum from Oct 1, 2026. The harbor maintenance fee (HMF) is 0.125% on ocean cargo, no cap. - [Protest deadline calculator](https://gingercontrol.com/tools/protest-deadline-calculator): A customs protest is due 180 days after liquidation (19 USC 1514). Enter a liquidation or entry date to get the protest, PSC, 1520(d) and drawback dates. ## Industries - [Industry: Apparel & Footwear Import Tariffs 2026](https://gingercontrol.com/industries/apparel-footwear): Apparel and footwear in 2026: high base rates, China's List 4A, the forced-labor Section 301 since July 24, and CAFTA-DR and USMCA relief, style by style. - [Industry: Auto Parts Import Tariffs 2026: Section 232](https://gingercontrol.com/industries/automotive-parts): Auto parts in 2026: 25% Section 232 with USMCA relief, 50% metals 232 if coded as aluminum, China 301 and Canada's Section 338, part by part and plant by plant. - [Industry: Electronics Import Tariffs & Export Control](https://gingercontrol.com/industries/electronics-semiconductors): Electronics in 2026: the forced-labor 301 and its exempt list, origin for Mexico assembly, the narrow chip 232, and EAR checks before a module ships to China. - [Industry: Industrial Machinery Import Tariffs 2026](https://gingercontrol.com/industries/industrial-machinery): Machinery in 2026: Section 232 on listed parts and Annex III equipment, the forced-labor 301 on the rest, and China 301 exclusions that end November 9. - [Industry: Consumer Goods Import Tariffs 2026](https://gingercontrol.com/industries/consumer-goods-retail): Consumer goods in 2026: the forced-labor 301 on China and Vietnam, suspended List 4B lines, metals 232 on housewares and the end of de minimis, line by line. - [Industry: Furniture Import Tariffs 2026: Section 232](https://gingercontrol.com/industries/furniture-home): Furniture in 2026: 25% Section 232 on upholstered wooden seating, cabinets and vanities, the forced-labor 301 on the rest, and the January 1 step-up. - [Industry: Toy Import Tariffs 2026: China and Vietnam](https://gingercontrol.com/industries/toys-juvenile): Toys in 2026: a free base rate, suspended List 4B, and a 12.5% forced-labor Section 301 on China and Vietnam since July 24, plus the new CPSC eFiling rule. - [Industry: Chemical & Resin Import Tariffs 2026](https://gingercontrol.com/industries/chemicals): Chemicals in 2026: Japan topped up to 12.5% by the forced-labor 301, pharma-use exemptions, the 232 pharma tariff on APIs, and new acrylate and citric AD/CVD. - [Industry: Steel, Aluminum & Copper Tariffs 2026](https://gingercontrol.com/industries/metals): Steel, aluminum and copper in 2026: Section 232 on full value by annex, the 85% U.S.-metal tier, Canada's Section 338 and new CORE orders, and what stacks. - [Industry: Medical Device & Pharma Import Tariffs 2026](https://gingercontrol.com/industries/medical-devices): Life sciences in 2026: the 232 pharma tariff for all companies, the forced-labor 301 on devices, China 301 hikes on gloves and masks, and kit classification. ## Compare - [e2open vs GingerControl](https://gingercontrol.com/compare/e2open-vs-gingercontrol): e2open covers screening, filing and trade content for 230+ countries. GingerOS keeps the reason behind every U.S. classification. Here is who fits which. - [Gaia Dynamics vs GingerControl](https://gingercontrol.com/compare/gaia-dynamics-vs-gingercontrol): Gaia Dynamics offers published self-serve plans and coverage in 48 countries. GingerOS asks before it decides and keeps the reason. Here is who fits which. - [ONESOURCE Global Trade vs GingerControl](https://gingercontrol.com/compare/onesource-global-trade-vs-gingercontrol): ONESOURCE maintains global trade content and screening. GingerOS keeps the reason behind every U.S. classification and rechecks it when things change. - [Pax vs Trava vs Caspian vs GingerControl](https://gingercontrol.com/compare/pax-vs-trava-vs-caspian-vs-gingercontrol): Pax, Trava and Caspian audit and recover duty on past U.S. entries. GingerOS keeps the reason behind each classification before the entry. Who fits which. - [SAP GTS vs GingerControl](https://gingercontrol.com/compare/sap-gts-vs-gingercontrol): SAP GTS runs screening, customs and special procedures inside SAP. GingerOS decides the U.S. codes that go into it, each with its reason on record. - [Gaia Dynamics alternatives](https://gingercontrol.com/compare/gaia-dynamics-alternatives): Gaia Dynamics alternatives for AI HTS classification: HTS Hero, Zonos Classify and GingerControl, with what each does best and what it costs. - [Gaia Dynamics pricing](https://gingercontrol.com/compare/gaia-dynamics-pricing): Gaia Dynamics pricing: Free, Starter from $99, Pro from $379 and Advanced from $1,399 a month, rising with credits, and custom Enterprise, next to ours. - [ONESOURCE Global Trade alternatives](https://gingercontrol.com/compare/onesource-global-trade-alternatives): ONESOURCE Global Trade alternatives: e2open, SAP GTS and Descartes for trade management and content, and GingerControl for each U.S. code and its reason. - [SAP GTS alternatives](https://gingercontrol.com/compare/sap-gts-alternatives): SAP GTS alternatives: Oracle GTM, ONESOURCE Global Trade and e2open for trade management, and GingerControl for each U.S. code and its reason. - [e2open alternatives](https://gingercontrol.com/compare/e2open-alternatives): e2open alternatives: ONESOURCE Global Trade, SAP GTS and Descartes for trade management, and GingerControl for each U.S. code and its reason. ## Resources - [Blog](https://gingercontrol.com/blog): Every GingerControl post on tariffs, HTS classification, CBP and trade compliance, sorted by topic. - [Blog topic: AI & Technology](https://gingercontrol.com/blog/topic/ai-technology): Where AI helps in customs work, the APIs, and build or buy. 113 GingerControl posts on AI & Technology, newest first. - [Blog topic: Trade Compliance](https://gingercontrol.com/blog/topic/trade-compliance): Valuation, marking and export controls, day to day. 95 GingerControl posts on Trade Compliance, newest first. - [Blog topic: Tariffs & Duties](https://gingercontrol.com/blog/topic/tariffs-duties): 232, 301 and IEEPA: how duties stack, and how to cut them. 73 GingerControl posts on Tariffs & Duties, newest first. - [Blog topic: CBP & Customs](https://gingercontrol.com/blog/topic/cbp-customs): Refunds, protests, rulings, bonds and audits with CBP. 35 GingerControl posts on CBP & Customs, newest first. - [Blog topic: HTS Classification](https://gingercontrol.com/blog/topic/hts-classification): Finding the right code and keeping it the same everywhere. 29 GingerControl posts on HTS Classification, newest first. - [Blog topic: Trade Basics](https://gingercontrol.com/blog/topic/trade-basics): The fundamentals, one question per post. 21 GingerControl posts on Trade Basics, newest first. - [Blog topic: Regulatory Updates](https://gingercontrol.com/blog/topic/regulatory-updates): What just changed, and what to do about it. 17 GingerControl posts on Regulatory Updates, newest first. - [Blog topic: Global Trade](https://gingercontrol.com/blog/topic/global-trade): Trade data across systems, FTA claims, and what importing costs. 12 GingerControl posts on Global Trade, newest first. - [GingerLite & Services](https://gingercontrol.com/services): GingerLite, the GingerControl app for customs brokers and small businesses: HTS and ECCN classifiers, tariff calculator, Radar and Parts Library. - [Industries](https://gingercontrol.com/industries): Ten industries, one page each: the 2026 tariff layers on your parts, where classification goes wrong, and how GingerOS keeps every part current. - [Free tools](https://gingercontrol.com/tools): Five free U.S. customs calculators: bond size, MPF and HMF, protest deadlines, IEEPA duties and FTZ savings, each with its source and date. - [Compare](https://gingercontrol.com/compare): GingerControl compared with ONESOURCE, SAP GTS, e2open, Gaia Dynamics, Pax, Trava and Caspian, each with a verdict and where the other tool wins. - [Resources](https://gingercontrol.com/resources): Every GingerControl reference in one place: trade compliance guides we keep current, a glossary, policy briefings, free calculators and the API manual. - [Duty drawback guide](https://gingercontrol.com/resources/duty-drawback): Which U.S. duties qualify for drawback in 2026: MFN, Section 301, 201, 232, IEEPA, Section 122 and AD/CVD, checked against the statute and CBP guidance. - [Glossary](https://gingercontrol.com/glossary): Plain-English definitions of 52 U.S. import compliance terms, from HTS and GRI to liquidation, drawback, CAPE and Section 301, each linked to its full guide. - [FAQ](https://gingercontrol.com/faq): Straight answers about GingerOS: choosing AI trade compliance software, starting without an ERP or clean data, HTS codes, U.S. duties, pricing and brokers. - [Policy briefings](https://gingercontrol.com/briefings): Free U.S. tariff and trade policy updates from CBP, USTR, the White House and the Federal Register, sent when a change happens and linked to its source. - [News](https://gingercontrol.com/news): Announcements from GingerControl, the team building GingerOS, the AI trade compliance platform: funding, launches and company milestones. ## Company - [Contact](https://gingercontrol.com/contact): Book a 30-minute call with the GingerControl team, or email us. Answer a few questions first, so we prepare against your company before we talk. - [Privacy policy](https://gingercontrol.com/privacy): How GingerControl collects, uses and protects your information on gingercontrol.com, in the app and in GingerOS. We never train AI models on customer data. - [Disclaimer](https://gingercontrol.com/disclaimer): GingerControl's HTS, ECCN and GingerOS results are for general reference, educational, and planning purposes; a licensed broker reviews codes before entry.