Every duty layer priced under the law in force on the entry date, cited to the Federal Register. Free to look up. When the file needs a record, the Entry Memo turns the answer into a dated PDF with a stable ID and an integrity hash, the kind you can still defend eighteen months later.
Triangle trade isn't the colonial-era history lesson. It's a modern regulatory circuit. Goods flow US ↔ Canada ↔ Mexico, and the compliance regime changes on every leg. A shipment touching all three faces layered obligations no bilateral tool was built to handle.
3 tools, free and unlimited, no account. The full duty stack for any entry, every layer with its Chapter 99 code and its Federal Register citation, plus USMCA qualification, exportable as CSV. When the file needs a dated record, the Entry Memo turns the answer into a PDF that holds up in front of the auditor: $99/month including 20 memos, then $15 per memo.
Broker tools →One cited answer per entry: the duty estimate, what was checked, the instrument behind every rate, and what still needs broker confirmation. The paid Entry Memo turns that answer into a dated PDF with a stable ID and an integrity hash, $99/month including 20 memos, then $15 per memo. The free tools are the doorway; the memo is the record.
Compliance tools →The groundwork is done before you open the file, so you start from evidence rather than a blank screen.
Every duty layer in every answer is either sourced or flagged. No layer is assumed, and none is invented to make the total look cleaner.
The answer is read from the tariff database and the published notice, then cited to the instrument that set it. When a rate or a rule cannot be sourced, the result marks the entry for broker verification instead of filling the gap. The tools are built to be checked, and the citations are where you start.
Duty is charged under the law in force on the entry date. A Section 232 layer that began in 2026 cannot touch a 2025 shipment. Triangle prices against the rules in force on the day goods entered, not the day you typed the code.
A duty number that stops at MFN hides the stack that lands at the border. Triangle returns every layer that names the code: Section 301, Section 232, AD/CVD, and USMCA qualification, each with its Chapter 99 code and its citation.
When a layer cannot be verified, the result says so and flags the entry for broker review. It does not return 0% and hope. Unknown is an answer, and it is stated as one.
Before you price an entry, check the orders that name your code. 200 HS codes under active Commerce AD/CVD orders are indexed with their scope documents and citations, and every code page links into the free Tariff Calculator for the stacked answer.
A duty calculator gives you a rate. Before ours does, it asks the four questions a broker would ask — and if you skip one, it assumes the answer that costs the most, never the one that’s most convenient.
“An active Section 301 exclusion (9903.88.69) covers goods on this heading, through 2026-11-09. Does it cover your product?”
Exclusions are granted per PRODUCT, not per HTS number — only the USTR product description settles it, and most tools cannot see that description at all.
If you don’t answer: Answer no or leave it unanswered and the full 25% Section 301 duty is charged — the safe default, never a guess.
“How will this shipment enter the US?”
Harbor Maintenance Fee (0.125% of cargo value) applies only to ocean freight. Most calculators charge it — or ignore it — regardless of mode.
If you don’t answer: Not yet decided? Ocean is assumed — the higher-liability answer.
“Was this product substantially transformed in the declared origin country, or just assembled there using parts from elsewhere?”
To claim origin in the transit/assembly country, substantial transformation must be documented — BOM, labor records, factory audits, affidavit.
If you don’t answer: Assembly-only pierces the declared origin — CBP applies the actual manufacturer country’s rates, Section 301 and 232 included.
“In which country is the actual manufacturer located?”
A mismatch between declared origin and manufacturer triggers transshipment risk scoring against known AD/CVD target countries.
If you don’t answer: Unknown? CBP may investigate — max liability is assumed until you can say otherwise.
The interview runs automatically, in the Tariff Calculator, on every HS code — free, no signup.
Purpose-built for the US ↔ Canada ↔ Mexico corridor. Each tool cites its policy basis to the Federal Register and exports what it found, so the answer and the evidence for it leave together.
All 3 run with no account and no API key, unlimited, with nothing stored. Every result carries its Federal Register citations and a CSV export.
Brokers with an account can also save the HS codes they file under and get one email each morning, only when a saved code is hit — no noise from the rest of the feed. Set up Policy Alerts →
Long-form breakdowns with the numbers shown: tariff stacks, landed cost, and what each origin choice actually costs.
Ask most tariff platforms whether your product qualifies for USMCA and you get a demo request form instead of an answer. Triangle's USMCA qualification check is free, requires no signup, and runs in your browser right now.
Monterrey, Tijuana, and Queretaro earned their reputations. But Mexico's nearshoring capacity is expanding beyond the traditional hubs. Yucatan is one of the most compelling additions to the evaluation list.
The question is no longer whether Mexico is cheaper than China. The question is how much cheaper, on which product categories, and under which tariff scenarios.
3 tools are free and unlimited, no account needed: full duty stacks, USMCA qualification, and duty-refund estimates, each rate cited to the Federal Register, each result exportable as CSV. The paid product is the Entry Memo. A dated PDF of one duty determination, carrying the citations, the entry date the rates were applied as of, a stable ID and an integrity hash: $99/month including 20 memos, then $15 per memo. Or buy one memo + CSV for $19, no subscription and no sign-in — the sample on any tool is free to preview, and your own entry is a one-time buy from the button on the result.
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