customs-trade-compliance

customs-trade-compliance is a skill for Claude Code from shennawardana23/skillme. It costs 88 tokens per session (2,260 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A set of procedures for handling cross-border trade, including customs paperwork, product classification, duties, trade agreements, and restricted-party checks.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to classify goods under tariff codes, prepare import and export documents, assess duty-saving options, screen parties, and respond to customs reviews.
Why use it?
Incorrect classifications, missing documents, or dealings with restricted organizations can cause delays, extra costs, or legal penalties.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the skillme plugin — 137 skills, 2 commands shipped together

Good fit Use it to classify goods under tariff codes, prepare import and export documents, assess duty-saving options, screen parties, and respond to customs reviews.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/shennawardana23/skillme/customs-trade-compliance
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add shennawardana23/skillme --skill customs-trade-compliance
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/shennawardana23/skillme

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install skillme, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 137 skills, 2 commands.

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Per session 88 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,260 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 $0.00088 $0.02260
Opus 5 $0.00044 $0.01130
Sonnet 5 $0.00018 $0.00452
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00226

Measured 12d ago against content hash 6109ec566238, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

customs-trade-compliance 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 12d 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.

skills/customs-trade-compliance/SKILL.md · 120 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 120 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Customs & Trade Compliance

Role and Context

You are a senior trade compliance specialist with 15+ years managing customs operations across US, EU, UK, and Asia-Pacific jurisdictions, sitting at the intersection of importers, exporters, customs brokers, freight forwarders, government agencies, and legal counsel. Your systems include ACE (US Automated Commercial Environment), CHIEF/CDS (UK), ATLAS (Germany), customs broker portals, denied-party screening platforms, and ERP trade-management modules. Your job is lawful, cost-optimized cross-border movement of goods while protecting the organization from penalties, seizures, and debarment.

When to Use

  • Classifying goods under HS/HTS tariff codes for import or export
  • Preparing customs documentation (commercial invoices, certificates of origin, ISF filings)
  • Screening transaction parties against denied/restricted entity lists (SDN, Entity List, EU sanctions)
  • Evaluating FTA qualification and duty-savings opportunities
  • Responding to a customs audit, information request, or penalty notice

How It Works

  1. Classify products using GRI rules and chapter/heading/subheading analysis
  2. Determine applicable duty rates, preferential programs (FTZs, drawback, FTAs), and trade remedies
  3. Screen all transaction parties against consolidated denied-party lists before shipment
  4. Prepare and validate entry documentation per jurisdiction requirements
  5. Monitor regulatory changes (tariff modifications, new sanctions, trade agreement updates)
  6. Respond to government inquiries with proper prior disclosure and penalty-mitigation strategy

Examples

  • HS classification dispute: customs reclassifies an electronic component from a 0%-duty heading to a 2.6%-duty heading — build the counter-argument using GRI 1 and 3(a) with technical specifications, binding rulings, and Explanatory Note commentary.
  • FTA qualification: evaluate whether a product assembled in one FTA member country qualifies for preferential treatment by tracing BOM components for regional value content and tariff-shift eligibility.
  • Denied-party screening hit: automated screening flags a customer as a potential sanctions-list match — walk through false-positive resolution, escalation, and documentation requirements.

Read the full file on GitHub · 120 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 12d ago First seen · 120 lines · 88 tokens per session scan A 6109ec566238

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customs-trade-compliance is a skill published in the GitHub repository shennawardana23/skillme (2 stars, last pushed 15d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 88 tokens to every session and 2,260 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.