Screen your import catalog before customs does.
ImportPreflight checks every product line against HTS classification, UFLPA Entity List, FDA Import Alerts, and BIS Entity List in one upload — so the broker has a defensible record before the entry hits ABI.
What runs on every line
Triage by severity, not by row order
Upload a CSV or JSON catalog. Every line gets sorted by action: HOLD, REVIEW, CAUTION, or CLEAR. Clear the obvious matches first; spend your review time on the lines that need it.
Four screens, one upload
USITC HTS classification with a confidence score. FDA Import Alert lookup by chapter and country. UFLPA Entity List name match plus priority sector signals. BIS Entity List name match. Every flag includes the rationale a reviewer needs to verify it.
A record you can hand off
Each result includes the reasoning behind it. Export to CSV for your item master, PDF for an audit package, or copy the structured rationale into the broker's working notes.
Enforcement is the constraint, not classification.
CBP detained over $3.6 billion in goods under UFLPA in 2022 alone. The agency has expanded forced-labor enforcement every year since. FDA's Import Alert program flags products before they ever clear; BIS's Entity List grows faster than most brokers can track manually.
A broker handling 15-50 entries per day cannot deeply review every ten-digit line, every shipment. Most of the line-level review that needs to happen at scale doesn't get done — not from carelessness, but from arithmetic. Real catalogs run in the thousands of SKUs. Real shipping windows are measured in hours.
ImportPreflight is the buffer. Every line gets screened. Every flag gets a rationale. The broker reviews what matters, and the importer has documented evidence of reasonable care for the lines that didn't trip a flag.
How it works
Step 1
Upload your catalog
CSV or JSON, up to 50 MB. Tens of thousands of SKUs supported. Map columns from whatever headers your file uses — product name, description, country of origin, supplier, manufacturer, ID. We auto-detect the common ones.
Step 2
We classify and screen
HTS mapping against the bundled USITC dataset. Four rule engines in parallel: FDA chapter and Import Alert lookup, UFLPA Entity List and priority-sector matching, BIS Entity List name screening. Every line gets a HOLD / REVIEW / CAUTION / CLEAR action with rationale.
Step 3
Review the queue, export the record
Sort by severity. Dismiss the noise. Keep HOLDs and REVIEWs in view for closer work. Export a CSV your broker can drop into CargoWise, Descartes, or whichever spreadsheet your filing actually runs through.
Who this is for
- Licensed customs brokers handling steady entry volume with thin QC headcount
- Mid-to-large importers with five- and six-digit SKU catalogs that change faster than policy can keep up with
- 3PLs preparing data for the broker's filing
- Internal trade compliance teams at exporters and manufacturers in regulated sectors