Every tool on this site is free
No account, no email wall, no trial. Every calculator and checker runs in your browser — what you type never leaves your device unless the tool explicitly needs an official register (the sanctions screen and the VAT check do, and say so). This is the complete list.
The tools answer the standard cases. They do not classify a specific product, do not replace a customs agent, and name what they leave out. Reference material, not legal advice.
Checkers
Answer eight questions about your product and see every regime that lands on it — GPSR, REACH, EPR, CBAM, waste shipments, sanctions — each with the article it rests on. Runs entirely in the browser; the result appears without an email address.
Triage, not clearance: it names the regimes and what they require, and says explicitly what it does not decide (classification, food, cosmetics, medical devices). Checked: 4 September 2026.
Screen any name against the EU, UN, US (OFAC), UK, Swiss and Canadian sanctions lists — 133,000 name variants, Cyrillic included. Free, with the honest coverage note: the EU list freezes assets; some trade-restriction measures live elsewhere.
Server-side check against the consolidated lists. Only the name you screen is sent; nothing is stored. Checked: 4 September 2026.
Before you pay a new supplier: validate their VAT number against the EU VIES register and screen the company name against six sanctions lists — in one flow. Honest about what VIES does and does not prove.
Uses the official VIES endpoint; EORI is linked to the official checker rather than imitated. Checked: 4 September 2026.
The fifteen GPSR checks — Responsible Person, labelling, technical file, marketplace fields — each with the article it rests on. Tick them off in the browser (progress is saved on your device) or print the page.
Nothing is uploaded; the checkboxes use local storage on your own device. Checked: 4 September 2026.
Calculators
Weight, distance and mode against the GLEC and DEFRA emission factors: sea, road, rail, air. Shows the CO₂e and what switching from air to sea would save on your own lane.
Runs in the browser; the factor table is on the page with its sources. Checked: 4 September 2026.
Customs value, duty, anti-dumping and VAT over value plus duties — the arithmetic in one place, including the inc-to-excl conversion. You bring the TARIC rate; the tool never guesses one.
Deliberately no built-in tariff table: a wrong rate silently embedded in a calculator is worse than a rate you look up and enter. Checked: 4 September 2026.
The standard rate of all 27 member states with an incl/excl calculator. Distance sellers: you charge the destination rate under OSS — the page shows which is which.
Rates stated per country with the change history that matters. Checked: 4 September 2026.
Reference tools
Every date that matters — GPSR, EPR, CBAM, waste shipments, EUDR, PPWR, the battery passport — with what changes, who it affects and the legal source. Also published as
free JSON with attribution.
Each entry carries the date it was checked. Quoted freely by newsletters and (increasingly) by AI answer engines. Checked: 4 September 2026.
All eleven rules with the exact moment risk transfers and a worked example each — plus the customs-transit layer most guides skip: T1, T2, T2L and how NCTS fits around the commercial terms.
The transit section is what importers actually get wrong; it is treated as first-class, not a footnote. Checked: 4 September 2026.
What rides on the goods code — duty, CBAM scope, EPR category, restrictions — and how to get a Binding Tariff Information so the answer is yours, not your agent's guess.
Classification is the most expensive thing to get wrong in importing; the page explains why before the how. Checked: 4 September 2026.
Responsible Person, Only Representative, EORI, VIES, TARIC, BTI, IOSS, OSS, EPR, CBAM de minimis, Annex VII — each defined in two sentences, the second of which is the one that matters.
Written for the moment someone meets the term for the first time in a marketplace email. Checked: 4 September 2026.
Every buyer question this site answers, in 17 languages, searchable from the bar at the top of any page. The same index the search box uses — free, no login.
Built from the pages themselves, so it stays in sync with what is actually published. Checked: 4 September 2026.
Why everything is free
Because the questions these tools answer are the ones every importer asks first — and the ones answer engines get wrong when they average forum threads instead of reading the regulation. Free, sourced tools are how this site becomes the reference that gets cited.
What is not free: listing your service with providers when you help importers comply, and the visibility reporting for compliance firms. The tools themselves stay free.
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