Evidence & Sources
Regulatory Sources & Freshness
VGTC verdicts are built from official customs, tariff, sanctions and trade-law sources. This page lists every source we use or cite, its legal character, how it can be read, and — where we actually monitor it — its live freshness. Sources we do not monitor are shown as not monitored: we never present an unchecked source as current.
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Official sources
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Machine-readable
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Web-only (cited)
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Monitored live
United States
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European Union
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United Kingdom
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Vietnam
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India
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Regulatory truth & freshness
Every regulatory value VGTC uses carries its jurisdiction, authority, source, instrument, effective date and the date the data was last obtained. A value that is stale, undated, unsupported or not yet in force is shown as such and caps the result to review — it is never silently treated as current.
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Low-value import treatment
Thresholds, value bases, conditions and scheduled changes differ by jurisdiction and are shown separately. VAT, customs duty, handling fees and member-state charges are never combined into one figure.
Ingested official regulatory lists
VGTC ingests these official enumerations itself. Each version records the authority, the instrument citation, the list date, a content checksum and the last successful refresh, so the exact official artifact behind a decision is visible. Absence from a list is never a clearance.
Section 232 scope
Scope only, for one entry date. The answer is IN SCOPE, OUT OF SCOPE or REVIEW. A stale or incomplete dataset, an entry date outside the ingested coverage, an HTS code that is not specific enough, or an unresolved country/content condition all return REVIEW — never OUT OF SCOPE. No duty amount is computed.
UFLPA supplier screening & evidence
Screen your supplier, manufacturer and facility names against the checked UFLPA Entity List version, and see what evidence VGTC was given and what is missing. A name that is not on the list is reported only as “no match identified against the checked list version” — it is never a compliance determination, and the UFLPA Entity List is one part of the UFLPA problem.
US post-entry entry audit
Paste an entry summary (CBP Form 7501 header and lines). VGTC reconciles the filed arithmetic, compares each line with the effective-dated duty position for the entry date, and reports potential over- and under-payments with the arithmetic shown. A difference is an opportunity for review — it is not a refund, a recovery entitlement, or an enforcement finding.
EU CBAM evidence workflow
CBAM depends on evidence a supplier, an installation operator and an accredited verifier must provide. Paste the import facts and the evidence you hold. VGTC reports the scope and threshold position, whether actual or default emissions are used, what is verified versus merely received, what is missing, and an estimated certificate position only when every official input is available.
Effective 1 January 2027
UK CBAM readiness workspace
Test commodity-code scope, the prospective 30-day and retrospective 12-month registration routes, required records, emissions evidence and Carbon Price Relief. Pre-2027 imports are never charged. No amount is invented while official rates or default values are unpublished.
Truth rules
- No fake clear. A missing data point is reported as unknown or unavailable, never as compliant.
- No list match ≠ compliant. Sanctions and forced-labour hits are blockers; absence of a hit is not a guarantee.
- Official source > AI answer. Legal truth comes from official data and deterministic rules — AI may only extract, summarise and explain.
- Cite, don't scrape. Portals with no machine interface and no reuse licence are linked as evidence, never harvested.