Disclaimer

Everything Nooryva publishes on nooryva.com is general information. This page explains, specifically rather than generically, why that matters more in international trade than it does in most subjects, and where the line sits between what you read here and what you can act on.

Nothing here is a quotation

No page, price, indication or example on this site is an offer or a binding quotation. A binding quotation is a document we send you, in writing, naming your commodity, your route, your volume and a date by which it holds. Until you have one of those, you do not have a price from us.

Nothing here is professional advice

We are not your customs broker, your lawyer, your insurer or your tax adviser, and nothing published here is legal, tax, regulatory, financial or insurance advice. Where a decision carries real money or real risk, take advice from somebody who is engaged to advise you and is accountable for it.

Why tariff and customs information dates so fast

This is the part worth reading twice, because it is where people are most often caught out.

• A commodity code is not a fixed property of a product. The same goods can classify differently depending on their composition, processing, packing and intended use. A code that was right for one consignment can be wrong for the next one from the same supplier.
• Duty rates depend on things this site cannot know: the country of origin, the preference regime in force that month, the consignee’s status, quotas, and anti-dumping measures introduced after we wrote the page.
• Documentary requirements change without notice, and a certificate that cleared last quarter may not this one.
• Only the customs authority of the importing country can rule on classification, valuation and origin. A binding ruling from them is worth more than every article on this site put together, and we will tell you to go and get one.

Routes, transit times and prices

Transit times are typical rather than promised, and do not account for congestion, weather, strikes, blank sailings, inspection or seasonal peaks. Freight rates, currency rates and commodity prices move constantly, and anything quoted in an article describes the moment it was written.

Availability of goods

Where we describe a commodity we source, we are describing what we are ordinarily able to supply, not a guarantee of stock, a specification, a grade or a harvest. Agricultural goods in particular vary by season, region and year.

Examples and illustrations

Where an example uses figures, they are illustrative and chosen to make a mechanism clear. They are not a price list and not a representative average.

Other websites

Where we link to a carrier, an authority or a trade body, we do so because it seemed useful at the time. We do not control those sites, we are not responsible for what they say, and a link is not an endorsement.

What this does not exclude

Nothing here excludes liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or for anything else the law does not allow us to exclude. Nothing here affects your rights as a consumer, if you are one. Where we have given you a written quotation or entered into a contract with you, that document governs, not this page.

Related

How we research and correct what we publish is in our editorial standards. The rules for using the site are in the terms of use, and the terms on which we actually move goods are in our standard trading conditions.

Which language applies

This page is published in every language this site is published in. If the versions disagree, the English version applies.