Price the Section 301 forced labor action against your own ACE entry lines. The report is read and analysed privately, inside your own browser session. Nothing is transmitted to us and no copy is kept anywhere.
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Every line is matched to the rate for its country of origin, then run down the ladder: Annex II, Chapter 98, and the Section 232 lines it does not stack on.
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| Origin | Imports | New duty | On the rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| China 12.5%, stacks on 301 | $267B | $15B | +5.7 |
| Vietnam 12.5% flat | $242B | $9B | +3.7 |
| Japan 12.5% cap net of MFN | $144B | $4B | +2.7 |
| Germany 10% cap net of MFN | $150B | $4B | +2.4 |
| India 10% flat | $97B | $3B | +2.9 |
The number the calculator gives you is not a sunk cost. All provisions of the Section 301 forced labor duties are drawback eligible, confirmed by CBP on 18 August 2026 in CSMS # 69567203 after an ACE validation error had briefly rejected these claims for six days.
If the goods, or goods made from them, are later exported or destroyed, duty drawback refunds up to 99% of what you paid under 19 U.S.C. 1313. CBP retains the other 1%. That applies to the forced labor duty the same way it applies to the ordinary duty underneath it.
Claims reach back five years from the date of importation. A first-time filer usually recovers several years of duty in the opening claim, so the duty already sitting in your entry summaries is in scope, not only what you are about to pay.
Export the same merchandise, export similar merchandise matched at the eight-digit HTS, or export a finished good made with the imported merchandise. Most importers assume only the last one counts and write themselves out of a refund they qualify for. How duty drawback works.
A Section 301 action applying an additional duty to goods from named economies on forced labor grounds, effective 24 July 2026. It reaches 13,291 ten-digit classifications across 86 countries of origin once the EU is counted as its member states. The rate is set per country rather than as one number, and a long list of classifications is exempted outright under Annex II.
The ES-003 Entry Summary Line Details report, exported as .xlsx or .csv, for whatever date range you want priced. The calculator reads one row per entry summary line and takes the classification, country of origin, entered value and duty from it. The CSV path has no size limit, which matters because a large importer's ES-003 can run to hundreds of megabytes. If you are not set up to pull it, see our ACE and AES setup guide.
No. The file is read in your browser and the calculation runs on your own machine. Nothing is uploaded, nothing is transmitted, and no copy is kept anywhere. Close the tab and it is gone. If you request one of the CSV exports we ask for your name, company and work email, and we receive only the summary figures already on your screen, never your entry numbers, classifications or line detail.
Yes. All provisions of the Section 301 forced labor duties are drawback eligible. An ACE validation update on 12 August 2026 briefly rejected drawback claims on the 9903.05.20 through 9903.05.84 range, and CBP corrected it on 18 August 2026 in CSMS # 69567203, stating plainly that those classifications are eligible. If the goods, or goods made from them, are exported or destroyed, up to 99% comes back under 19 U.S.C. 1313, reaching five years back from the date of importation.
No. USTR excludes articles and parts of articles subject to Section 232 tariffs, covering steel, aluminum, copper and derivatives, automobiles and parts, medium and heavy duty vehicles and parts, buses, and timber and lumber. A line pays one or the other. It does stack on the ordinary Column 1 customs duty. This rule is specific to the forced labor action and does not generalise to other Section 301 tariffs.
Because a flat screen charges every line from a named economy at that country's rate and stops. The action carves out roughly $290 billion before it charges anything, through Annex II, the Section 232 exclusion, Chapter 98 and your USMCA and CAFTA-DR claims. Screened flat, the answer comes out more than four times too high.
The calculator states the HTSUS revision and date it is current to on the page itself. USITC published nineteen revisions to the 2026 schedule between January and September, and a revision can move the Section 232 covered lists or the Annex II exemptions. When one lands, the rule set is re-verified against the primary sources and the tool is reissued as a whole file.
It is a calculation against the entry lines you provide, not a sample or an average, so it is only as good as the report you feed it. It is not eligibility advice and it is not a claim. Alliance will review the same file line by line, document the Annex II and Section 232 positions, and tell you what is recoverable.
This page gives you the number. A licensed U.S. Customs broker gives you the file: line by line classification review, the Annex II and Section 232 positions documented, and the drawback that comes back out the other side once the duty is paid.
The action carves out $290 billion of trade before it charges $82 billion. Priced flat, classification by country, the answer comes out more than four times too high. Working down that ladder is the entire exercise.
| Before any carve-out | $372.0B |
|---|---|
| Less Annex II exemptions | $192.5B |
| Less Section 232, no stacking | $45.0B |
| Less USMCA claims | $29.2B |
| Less Chapter 98 and 99 | $17.2B |
| Less net-of-MFN caps | $5.7B |
| Less CAFTA-DR textile claims | $0.5B |
| Duty actually charged | $81.9B |
| HTSUS chapter | Imports | New duty | On the rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| 95 Toys and sporting goods | $32B | $4B | +11.6 |
| 90 Optical and medical | $122B | $10B | +8.5 |
| 94 Furniture and lamps | $58B | $4B | +6.1 |
| 85 Electrical machinery | $563B | $9B | +1.7 |
| 84 Machinery | $797B | $8B | +1.1 |
There is no single forced labor rate. Each named economy carries its own, some flat, some capped net of the MFN rate, and China's stacks on the Section 301 duty it already pays.
Annex II exempts a long list of classifications outright, attributed country by country rather than applying everywhere. On top sit Chapter 98 programs and your USMCA and CAFTA-DR claims.
Steel, aluminum, copper and derivatives, automobiles and parts, medium and heavy duty vehicles and parts, buses, timber and lumber. A line pays one or the other, never both.
$81.9B could be as high as $115.0B. U.S. note 16(c) carves a derivative article out of the forced labor duty only where it is provided for in the Section 232 headings, and for an article classified outside chapters 72, 73, 74 and 76 that holds only where the applicable metal is at least 15% of the article's weight. $81.9B assumes every listed derivative clears that bar, $115.0B assumes none does, and the truth sits much nearer the low end because most listed derivatives are predominantly metal. Trade statistics carry no weights, so the test cannot be run against them. It can be run against an importer's own entry data, which is what the calculator on this page does.
Census monthly imports for consumption at HTS10 by country of origin, 36 months through July 2026, trended forward twelve months by a blended log-linear model selected on a twelve-month holdout: 0.9% aggregate error, 17.3% at country level, which is why country figures are rounded to the billion and nothing is published below chapter. Entered customs value is the ad valorem base. Rates verified line by line against 91 FR 47318 of 28 July 2026: 17 economies at 10%, 38 at 12.5%, five capped net of MFN, the European Union entering the data as its 27 member states. Carve-outs taken from the tariff schedule itself, HTSUS Chapter 99 U.S. note 52, read against the covered lists in notes 16(c), 33(b) and (g), 37 and 38(b), (c) and (i), 1,005 provisions, Revision 19 of 15 September 2026, with all fifteen economy-specific exemption lists checked country by country. The $372.0B figure is not a published estimate, it is this model's own arithmetic before any carve-out is applied, shown so the carve-outs can be sized.
USMCA and CAFTA-DR figures assume 2024 claim shares hold, and claim rates are an importer-by-importer fact. Heading 9903.94.07 exempts any automobile part an importer certifies for U.S. production or repair, which no trade dataset can see. Volumes are static, so this is exposure, not forecast collections. This is a projection of a national dataset, not a ruling on any importer's entries.