EXAMPLE FROM PUBLIC US CUSTOMS RECORDS  ·  figures modeled, not the company's books
US Imports
AI HTS Exposure Scan
Prepared for

Generac Power Systems

Our AI read your US import records straight from public customs data: 28,196 sea shipments on record across roughly seven years of public bills of lading, about 57 percent of them from China. Here is what an importer running a catalog this size quietly wastes on slow manual classification, and what Ripple wipes the day it takes over.

Sector: Industrial power equipment
On record, 2018 to 2026: 28,196 shipments
Primary origin: China (57%)
Most recent: 7 June 2026
What manual HTS classification costs you each month
US$13,000
About half of that, roughly $6,500 a month, is pure waste Ripple wipes the day it takes over.
Modeled from your public import records and industry classification rates: a catalog of thousands of SKUs across these HTS chapters, classified and kept current at about $1 per line and $15 to $30 per entry, or the one to two in-house classifiers a catalog this size needs at roughly $150K each a year. This is the classification cost, separate from the duty you legally owe. Public sea records are a sample of your total activity, so we confirm the exact figure against your own entries on a free 15 minute demo. Modeled range: $9,000 to $18,000 a month.
Shipment data from public US bills of lading, no access to your systems required
Duty rates pulled from the official USITC Harmonized Tariff Schedule
Verified line by line against your real HTS codes on the scan, or you owe nothing
Where the money goes each month
Broker & classification fees
Manual classification labor
Overpaid duty from misclassification
Penalty & audit exposure
Clearance delays

The 15 minute demo is free. If we can’t show you at least $6,500 a month in savings, we put $1,000 toward your next broker invoice.

What we found about you

Pulled from your public customs records, SEC filings, hiring pages and the USITC tariff schedule, then read by our AI
Your import footprintPublic customs records
28,196 sea shipments on record (2018 to 2026), historically 57 percent from China, then Taiwan, India, South Korea and Vietnam. Top suppliers Fong Chen Plastic, Loncin Motor and Hubei Zhenyu, all China. Most recent shipment 7 June 2026, though your sea volume is down sharply year on year as you re-shore.
What this means: high, multi-country import volume with a China-heavy history, so classification spans many origins and the Section 301 surcharge touches most of your lines.
What you import, and the real duty on itUSITC HTS + 301 / 232 lists
Your top codes and the duty that actually stacks on each today:
HTS codeBase301 China232 steel
8502.20 generating sets2.0%+25%if >15% steel
8409 engine parts2.5%+25%if >15% steel
8483.10 shafts2.5%+25%hot spot
7325 / 7326 steel2.9%+25%+50%
8708.99 parts2.5%+25%+50%
3926.90 plastics5.3%+25%no
What this means: a steel part from China can stack base plus 301 plus 232 to roughly 78 percent. Codes like 8483.10 and 8708.99 swing duty by tens of percent on the exact subline, so one miscode there is where you overpay or take on penalty risk. Getting those right is precisely what Ripple does.
Your own words to the SECEDGAR 10-K / 10-Q
"These tariff actions and resulting price increases have created inflationary pressures for consumers, negatively impacting demand and margins for certain of our products."
Gross margin slipped 38.8 to 38.3 percent over the year, and 39.5 to 38.7 percent in Q1 2026, with tariffs named inside input costs and China called out "most notably."
What this means: you have already told investors tariffs are hitting your margins. This is board-level money, not a hypothetical.
The size of it, in your own numbersEarnings disclosure
You disclosed a roughly $125M tariff impact in 2025, about two thirds of it from China, to be offset through pricing and supply-chain moves.
What this means: Ripple does not erase the duty you legally owe. But on $125M of tariff-exposed imports, overpayment hides in the codes, and getting every one right is exactly where it pays for itself.
You are doing this by handCareers + LinkedIn
You have an open role, Manager, Trade Compliance, Import Operations in Waukesha, tasked with "reviewing imported goods and applying proper Harmonized Tariff codes (HTS) and duty rates."
What this means: you classify HTS by hand at volume today, and you are staffing up to do more of it manually. That is the clearest pain signal there is, and the exact work Ripple automates.
A classification gap in your stackTech footprint
You run SAP ECC, Ariba and a TMS for logistics, but there is no automated HTS-classification layer visible anywhere, so the coding sits in spreadsheets, with the broker, or with that new hire.
What this means: heavy ERP and logistics infrastructure, with the one piece missing that Ripple drops straight in.
Sources: Website · SEC filings · Public customs records · Open roles

What this is costing you, by area

5 areas

Each area below is where US importers at your volume most often overpay. Figures are modeled estimates for your import-volume band, confirmed against your actual HTS lines on the free scan.

Broker and classification fees

External brokers and classification services charge per line, often around US$5 each. Across this entry volume that is a recurring bill for work an agent now does at a fraction of the cost.

US$4k–7k
Est / mo

Manual classification labor

An importer at this volume carries one to two people assigning codes by hand, at roughly US$75K to $150K each loaded. Most of that work is repeatable and waits on a human.

US$3k–5k
Est / mo

Overpaid duty from misclassification

A wrong HTS code means the wrong duty rate, and with China 301 stacked on generating sets and engine parts, a single mis-coded line overpays fast. Classification error rates run near a third of lines.

US$1.5k–3k
Est / mo

Penalty and audit exposure

CBP holds importers to reasonable care. Misclassified lines surface as back duty, interest and penalties on audit, and the exposure compounds the longer a wrong code stays in your catalog.

US$1k–2k
Est / mo

Clearance delays and demurrage

Classification queries and corrections hold shipments at the border. Every held container risks demurrage and detention charges and ties up cash that should be moving product.

US$0.5k–1k
Est / mo

Roughly half of this spend is automatable waste, the slow manual work and per-line broker fees Ripple removes. The duty you legally owe is separate, we only recover the slice you overpay through miscodes.

Proof, a real deployment

A client of ours, Pentagon, part of JAS Worldwide, runs customs across 31 jurisdictions as a billion-dollar freight forwarder. They were carrying the exact load flagged above, brokers and in-house heads assigning codes by hand. Our classification agent went onto their live entry flow and found the same leaks.

3 wks → 15 min
per large invoice
99.8%
accuracy vs ~75% manual
40%
lower clearance cost
31
jurisdictions live
1
Week 2
Agent live on their entry flow, classifying invoices automatically.
2
Week 6
Running at machine speed across all 31 jurisdictions.
3
Outcome
40% lower clearance cost, classifiers freed for higher-value work.
“A 40% reduction in customs clearance costs, across 31 jurisdictions.”Pentagon, part of JAS Worldwide

What it is worth to fix this

Ripple saves you about US$6,500 a month, roughly half your classification cost. Classifying this by hand runs you about US$13,000 a month, and here is where the saving comes from.

$6,500 / mo
saved every month once Ripple takes over, about half your classification cost
$1–5 / line
broker per-line fees removed
$3K–5K
in classifier time freed each month
3 wks → 15 min
per large invoice
Worked example: an importer at your volume models to about US$13,000 a month in classification cost, separate from the duty you legally owe. Ripple takes roughly half of that off the table, about $6,500 a month back in your pocket, plus the overpaid duty it catches. We confirm it against your real entries on the demo.
Your free 15-minute Ripple demo

See how Ripple's HTS classification AI can save you about $6,500 a month, live on your own numbers.

  • We put Ripple in front of you live, classifying your kind of goods in minutes at 99.8 percent, with a full audit trail.
  • We run your real numbers through it, your shipments and your codes, and map the waste to the dollar.
  • You leave with the custom report free, and see exactly what Ripple saves you, no obligation.
What you get, free
Full HTS classification of one real invoice$2,000FREE
Per-line audit-grade evidence report$1,500FREE
15-minute customs exposure review with Adrian$500FREE
Total value$4,000yours free

Our guarantee

In the worst case you leave with a custom report. If we can't show you at least $6,500 a month in savings, we put $1,000 toward your next broker invoice.

Adrian Smith
Adrian SmithFounder, Ripple Technologies Connect on LinkedIn

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This scan is an AI assisted analysis based on publicly available US import records and the USITC tariff schedule. The Generac figures are modeled from public records for illustration and are not drawn from the company's books or endorsed by it. Cost figures are modeled from public sea bill-of-lading records, which are a sample of total import activity, and from industry classification rates of about $1 per line, $15 to $30 per entry, or $150K a year per in-house classifier. Actual numbers are confirmed against the company's own entries on the demo. Prepared for the named recipient only.
*Provided you meet our requirements and criteria. The $1,000 broker-invoice credit is applied as a Ripple platform credit toward an equivalent classification run.