FOR CUSTOMS BROKERS
Your licensed hours are the most expensive thing in the shop. Stop spending them on the first pass.
Research is the bottleneck. Judgment is the value. GingerControl compresses the first so your licensed team has more of the second.
The starting point
The bottleneck in most brokerages is not file volume, it is research hours per file. The part of the work where a licensed broker is genuinely irreplaceable is the judgment call, the ruling review, the final sign-off. Everything upstream of that is where margin gets eaten. GingerControl takes the first-pass research off your team's plate, scales it through an API when volume spikes, and embeds into your workflow so your licensed brokers spend their hours on decisions, not document hunting.
Jobs to be done
A day in the life, rewritten.
- 01
The situation
A client sends over a batch of 40 SKUs. Two are easy, 30 are routine, 8 are genuinely tough.
The job
Give each file the attention it deserves without burning the whole week on the easy ones.
With Ginger
The HTS Classification Researcher runs all 40 in parallel, returns candidate HTS codes with reasoning, and flags the tough ones with targeted clarifying questions. When the volume is bigger than a queue, the Trade Compliance API takes up to 200 products per call and hands the results straight back to your systems. Your licensed broker opens the queue and reviews, not researches.
- 02
The situation
Two different brokers on your team classified the same product two different ways last quarter.
The job
Enforce one methodology across the whole shop without turning it into a training program.
With Ginger
Ginger runs the same GRI engine on every file. Two brokers asking Ginger the same question get the same reasoning chain. Consistency becomes a feature of the tool, not a meeting topic.
- 03
The situation
A client asks why their product was classified the way it was, or whether a different origin qualifies for FTA preference.
The job
Answer in language the client understands, with numbers, not in customs jargon.
With Ginger
Every research run comes with a plain-English rationale formatted for client communication, and Product Sandbox runs the pre-entry FTA eligibility check so you can tell the client exactly what the preference saves per shipment. Forward it, paste it into the entry notes, or drop it into a ruling request draft.
The proof
What changes, in numbers.
Up to 20x
faster first-pass classification per SKU
Manual research runs 30 minutes to 2 hours per SKU. Ginger's iterative convergence lands at 5 to 6 minutes, keeping your licensed hours on judgment calls, not research.
200K+
classifications per day on production-tier API
Batch-grade throughput for brokerages that need to scale, not just classify. The Trade Compliance API takes up to 200 products per call, processes them in parallel, and custom enterprise integrations scale to 100K per hour.
What to look at next
HTS Classification Researcher
Broker-grade first-pass research with GRI reasoning attached.
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Trade Compliance API
Batch up to 200 products per call and wire first-pass research into your own filing systems.
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Tariff Calculator
Cross-compare HTS codes and origin countries to give clients the full duty picture in one view.
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Product Sandbox
Run pre-entry FTA eligibility checks across a client portfolio in one workspace.
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AI Integration
Embed GingerControl's classification engine into your brokerage workflow, with rollout and training.
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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.