customs-duty-optimization-opportunity-cost

customs-duty-optimization-opportunity-cost is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from deciqAI/knowledge-skills. It costs 83 tokens per session (802 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A way to compare an importer's current duty bill with lawful alternatives such as duty drawback, foreign-trade zones, first-sale valuation, bonded warehouses, or free-trade agreements.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps evaluate recurring import-duty spend, compare duty-reduction programs, estimate the value of foregone savings, and decide whether setup work is worthwhile.
Why use it?
It helps reveal savings or payment delays that are being missed, while weighing them against the cost and eligibility requirements of each program.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Needs its repository: it reads a path above its own folder, which exists only inside the repository. The line is **Industry front door for [opportunity-cost](../opportunity-cost/SKILL.md).** Adds domain triggers, example, packs only. Parent Process unchanged..

Good fit It helps evaluate recurring import-duty spend, compare duty-reduction programs, estimate the value of foregone savings, and decide whether setup work is worthwhile.

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Getting it into your agent

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Per session 83 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 802 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00083 $0.00802
Opus 5 $0.00042 $0.00401
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00160
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00080

Measured 11d ago against content hash 34cc35bc203b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

customs-duty-optimization-opportunity-cost scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 11d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

customs-duty-optimization-opportunity-cost/SKILL.md · 55 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 55 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Customs — Duty Optimization (Opportunity Cost)

Industry front door for opportunity-cost. Adds domain triggers, example, packs only. Parent Process unchanged. Not legal advice. Each program has strict eligibility; verify with counsel/CBP before relying on savings.

Activate when: an importer has recurring, material duty spend; evaluating FTZ, duty drawback, first-sale valuation, bonded warehouse, or FTA use; "are we leaving duty savings on the table?" Do NOT activate when: de minimis / trivial duty where program cost exceeds benefit.

Why this variant

The parent opportunity-cost measures the value of the best foregone alternative. Every duty dollar paid when a lawful program would have avoided/deferred it is a foregone saving. This surfaces those foregone alternatives and sizes them against setup cost.

Domain inputs → parent's Process

Enumerate lawful alternatives and their net value vs status quo:

  • Duty drawback: refund on duties for re-exported/destroyed goods (up to 99%).
  • Foreign-Trade Zone (FTZ): defer/reduce/eliminate duty; inverted-tariff benefit.
  • First-sale valuation: dutiable value = earlier bona fide sale price in multi-tier transactions.
  • FTA/preference (see USMCA variant), bonded warehouse (deferral).
  • Weigh each program's admin/setup cost; opportunity cost = savings foregone by not adopting the best-fit one.

Worked example

Importer pays $800k/yr duty, re-exports ~30% of goods. → Foregone saving: drawback could refund 99% on the re-exported portion ($240k base) — far exceeding program setup. Not filing drawback is a recurring opportunity cost. FTZ may add inverted-tariff savings on the domestic portion.

Compliance anchors

  • 19 U.S.C. 1313 (drawback); FTZ Act / 19 CFR 146; first-sale (Nissho Iwai); bonded warehouse 19 CFR 19.

Packs

  • Broker/advisory: annual duty-spend audit → program-fit shortlist with net-savings sizing.
  • Enterprise importer: FTZ feasibility + drawback recovery program.

Read the full file on GitHub · 55 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 11d ago First seen · 55 lines · 83 tokens per session scan A 34cc35bc203b

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customs-duty-optimization-opportunity-cost is a skill published in the GitHub repository deciqAI/knowledge-skills (10 stars, last pushed 9d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 83 tokens to every session and 802 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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