FOR CFO / FINANCE
If your P&L is surprised by duty every quarter, that is not a trade problem. It is a visibility problem.
Duty is a budget line. GingerControl treats it that way, so finance gets the same view compliance has, in a form that holds up in a board deck.
The starting point
Tariffs are the fastest-moving line item on most importer P&Ls right now, and also the line item with the least visibility. Most finance teams are still forecasting duty by taking last quarter's broker invoices and adding a buffer. That works until it very much does not. GingerControl gives finance the same reasoning layer compliance has, models the scenarios, and runs the recovery work that puts cash back: IEEPA refunds after the 2026 Supreme Court ruling, and duty drawback on qualifying exports.
Jobs to be done
A day in the life, rewritten.
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The situation
Quarter close is coming and you need a duty projection for next quarter that does not embarrass you at the board meeting.
The job
Produce a forecast grounded in actual product-level tariff data, not a trailing average.
With Ginger
Product Sandbox holds the current tariff stack for every product in your catalog and lets you model duty cost across sourcing strategies for budget planning. When tariffs change, you re-run the matrix, and every committed scenario is on record in Selection History.
- 02
The situation
You suspect there is capital sitting in duties you already paid, IEEPA tariffs from 2025, or a product misclassified for the last 12 months.
The job
Figure out whether there is a recovery opportunity, and how much, fast.
With Ginger
After the February 2026 Supreme Court ruling, our IEEPA Refund service files the full package per entry, through Post Summary Correction, protest, or CIT complaint. Duty Drawback recovers up to 99% of duties on imports later exported or used in US manufacturing. And if a product was misclassified, the HTS Classification Researcher sizes the delta with a reasoning chain to support the filing.
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The situation
The board wants a one-slide summary of tariff exposure by product line.
The job
Produce it without pulling the compliance team off their day job.
With Ginger
Exposure data already lives in Product Sandbox, grouped and exportable, with a timestamped record of every decision behind it. Drop it in the deck. No week-long fire drill.
The proof
What changes, in numbers.
Full tariff stack
modeled across your catalog in parallel
Base MFN + Section 232 + Section 301 + Chapter 99 + Section 122, applied by entry date in Product Sandbox. Your scenarios are as current as the rules themselves.
Up to 99%
of duties recoverable through drawback, plus IEEPA refunds
Duty drawback under 19 USC 1313 refunds up to 99% of duties on imports later exported or used in US manufacturing. IEEPA refunds reclaim 2025 tariffs after the 2026 Supreme Court ruling. We file both packages end to end.
What to look at next
IEEPA Refund Recovery
Reclaim IEEPA duties paid in 2025 after the 2026 Supreme Court ruling. We file the full package.
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Duty Drawback Recovery
Recover up to 99% of duties on imports later exported or used in US manufacturing.
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Product Sandbox
Model duty cost across sourcing strategies for budget planning, with every decision on record.
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Tariff Calculator
Cross-compare HTS codes and origin countries to ground duty projections in product-level data.
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Trade Advisory
Senior advisors for duty mitigation strategy and recovery sizing.
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Ready to look down on the maze?
Start your first classification.
Open the HTS Classification Researcher and run a product through the GRI engine. You will see the reasoning chain come out the other side, attached to the answer, ready to defend.