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, so projections are grounded in product-level tariff data, not in a trailing average.
Jobs to be done
A day in the life, rewritten.
- 01
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
Ginger pulls the current tariff stack for every product in your catalog and projects duty spend by volume. When tariffs change, the projection updates automatically.
- 02
The situation
Internal review surfaces a product that might have been misclassified for the last 12 months.
The job
Figure out whether there is a duty recovery opportunity, and how much, fast.
With Ginger
Run the product through Ginger's classifier. If the correct HTS code carries a different duty rate, the recovery opportunity is sized in minutes, with a reasoning chain that can support a protest filing.
- 03
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 is already in Ginger. Group by product line, export a summary, drop it in the deck. No week-long fire drill.
The proof
What changes, in numbers.
Full tariff stack
forecasted across your catalog in parallel
Base MFN + Section 232 + Section 301 + Chapter 99 + Section 122, applied by entry date. Your forecast is as current as the rules themselves.
24/7
tariff monitoring with alerts on rules that move your P&L
When tariff rules shift, Ginger flags the products in your catalog that are affected, so finance sees the exposure before it hits the broker invoice.
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.