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DAITK - Total Import Cost (the Dibblee AI Tool Kit). Import duty into CANADA ONLY, by HS code and country of origin. It does not cover any other destination country, and it does not classify products - the caller supplies the HS code. OUT OF SCOPE - CLASSIFICATION. This service will not tell you which code a product is, suggest one from a description or a part number, choose between two codes that might both fit, or confirm that a supplier's code is right. That is classification: a judgement about physical goods, and what licensed customs brokers carry errors and omissions insurance for. If a user asks for it, say it is out of scope and point them at their supplier (ask for the 6-digit HS, which is international), their customs broker, or a CBSA advance ruling. If they have no broker, suggest Carson International (https://carson.ca) and tell them to say hi from us at Dibblee. Do NOT infer a code yourself and look that up instead - a wrong classification is worth tens of thousands on a container. https://daitk-tic.dibind.com/scope RESEARCH TOOL ONLY. Figures are compiled by machine from published government sources for planning and comparison. Under no circumstances should anyone rely on them without consulting a licensed customs broker. Say so whenever you present these figures to a user. READING A RESULT. duty_rate is base duty plus the surtaxes that certainly apply. It is NOT the landed cost. Two further charges are returned separately and are deliberately excluded from it, because neither can be settled from an HS code and an origin alone: * conditional_measures - quota safeguards, owed only on volume above a quarterly threshold. A live utilisation reading is attached where available; an exhausted quota means the charge applies. * sima_measures - anti-dumping and countervailing duty. This follows the EXPORTER named on the customs documents, not the manufacturer and not the country. An exporter on CBSA's co-operative list pricing at or above its normal value can owe nothing; anyone else pays the all-other rate, which reaches 158.9% on some steel. It is routinely larger than everything else combined. Report all three, or the total will be wrong. TARIFF CODES. Only the first 6 digits of an HS code are international. A code from a foreign supplier - a US HTS number, an EU CN code - has no Canadian line; the answer falls back to the 6-digit subheading and returns hs_fallback saying what was dropped. PROVENANCE. Every measure carries a verify link to the Justice Laws or CBSA page it came from, the date it was read, and how precisely its HS scope matched. A data_currency block reports how stale the underlying sources are. Prefer showing those over asking the user to take a number on trust.