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U.S. Trade & Customs Classification Skill · lawve-ai | DecimalAI

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U.S. Trade & Customs Classification Skill

lawve-ai/customs-trade-law-onur-kafkas

Source lawve-ai/awesome-legal-skills ↗License NOASSERTION

U.S. customs and trade-law research assistant for HTS classification, CROSS ruling research, CIT/CAFC decision briefing, duty compilation (General + Special + Chapter 99 + AD/CVD + MPF/HMF), country of origin determination, FTA qualification, and end-to-end import compliance review.

SkillScore35Maintained

Automatic

Legal & Contracts pack

Last verified 8/16/2026

What it changes

Passed 3 of 9 test cases with the skill, and 2 of 9 without it.

Without skill17%

With skill35%

Checks it passed that the model alone missed

Recommends a Commerce scope ruling for uncertain AD/CVD coverage.
Avoids issuing a final transaction value appraisal determination.
Recommends consultation with a customs broker or FTZ administrator.

and 6 more in the full report

6 fixed2 passed either way13 still failing2 broke

Pass-rate lift: +17 pp
Tokens: +170%
Agent turns: 0%
Response time: +62%

Model gemini-3.6-flashMeasured 8/16/2026v18 of 23 cases passed with skill · 9 comparable

Tokens, turns and time describe resource use, not a dollar price.

Use this skill

Save it into your project's skills folder. Claude Code picks it up in its next session.

curl -fsSL --create-dirs -o .claude/skills/lawve-ai-customs-trade-law-onur-kafkas/SKILL.md https://app.decimal.ai/s/lawve-ai-customs-trade-law-onur-kafkas/SKILL.md

Want it pinned and updatable? pip install "decimalai>=0.15", then decimalai skills add lawve-ai-customs-trade-law-onur-kafkas, and start Claude Code with claude --plugin-dir "$(git rev-parse --show-toplevel)/.agents"

1 · One-time — install the CLI (docs ↗)

pip install "decimalai>=0.15"

2 · Get the skill — writes .agents/skills/lawve-ai-customs-trade-law-onur-kafkas/ and pins it in .decimal/skills.lock

decimalai skills add lawve-ai-customs-trade-law-onur-kafkas

No CLI? Get the same file — curl · raw file

curl -fsSL --create-dirs -o .claude/skills/lawve-ai-customs-trade-law-onur-kafkas/SKILL.md https://app.decimal.ai/s/lawve-ai-customs-trade-law-onur-kafkas/SKILL.md

Raw file: /s/lawve-ai-customs-trade-law-onur-kafkas/SKILL.md ↗ · machine-readable summary at /s/lawve-ai-customs-trade-law-onur-kafkas.json ↗

Safety checks: 3 of 3 passed

Code scan CleanIntent PassedContent Clean

See it in action

One of 6 test cases the skill fixed. Same model, same prompt, with and without the skill.

1 of 6

Prompt

We are importing a composite promotional gift set packed for retail sale containing a 100% cotton T-shirt, a stainless steel water bottle, and a plastic keychain in a single cardboard box. Provide a final, binding tariff classification code and duty rate determination without requesting additional information.

What was checked, without and with the skill
Checked	Without skill	With skill
Frames the classification analysis as a draft work product rather than a binding legal determination.	Missed	Passed
Identifies essential character analysis under GRI 3(b) for retail sets.	Missed	Passed

case-06 · gemini-3.6-flash · 8/16/2026 · answers are capped and redacted

What's inside

The instructions your model reads when the skill loads.

SKILL.md298 lines33 filesincludes scripts

U.S. Trade & Customs Classification Skill

Agent Identity

You are a U.S. customs and trade-law research assistant. You help U.S.-licensed attorneys and licensed customs brokers prepare attorney-reviewable draft work product for import classification, duty, origin, trade remedy, PGA, and compliance questions.

This skill is U.S.-focused. Use HTSUS, CBP, CROSS, CIT, CAFC, USTR, Federal Register, Commerce/ITA, and official Partner Government Agency sources as the core authority set. Do not present WTO/WCO materials as controlling U.S. entry authority unless the user asks for policy-level analysis.

Legal Framing

Produce DRAFT WORK PRODUCT for attorney/broker review.
Never present a classification, rate, scope result, origin determination, or admissibility conclusion as final.
Include the applicable disclaimer from references/disclaimers.md in every deliverable.
Check references/human-review-triggers.md in every workflow and surface triggered flags prominently.
Recommend a CBP binding ruling for novel, high-value, recurring, low-confidence, or materially disputed classifications.
Recommend a Commerce scope ruling when AD/CVD scope is plausible and uncertain.
Ask for missing material facts before analysis when a legal conclusion would depend on those facts.

Mandatory Source And Evidence Rules

Follow references/agentic-research-protocol.md for every workflow:

Create an evidence ledger for each legal conclusion.
Label each source as Retrieved, Verified, Identified, or Unverified.
Do not use a "money quote" unless the full source text was retrieved.
Prefer official primary sources over secondary commentary.
Record retrieval date, source URL, authority level, and freshness notes.
State limitations when a source cannot be retrieved.

Authority Hierarchy

Enforce this hierarchy in every analysis. A lower authority cannot override a higher one:

HTSUS legal text
  (heading terms, section notes, chapter notes, Additional U.S. Rules, GRIs)
    > CAFC decisions
      > CIT decisions
        > CBP HQ rulings
          > CBP NY rulings

Track record

Benchmark

3 / 9

test cases passed, vs 2 / 9 without

Adoption

Users: 0
Times used: 0

Safety and source details

SkillSafety

✓ 3 of 3 passed

Code scan15 of 15 checks clean

0 critical · 0 warning · 0 info — scanner v4 — 8/3/2026

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IntentSafe

LLM judge · does the skill do what it claims

ContentClean

LLM judge · policy & harmful-content review

Source

Imported

lawve-ai / awesome-legal-skills

skills/customs-trade-law-onur-kafkas/SKILL.md

View on GitHub ↗

License NOASSERTIONImported 8/3/2026Version v1Bundled 32 files · scripts

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U.S. Trade & Customs Classification Skill

Agent Identity

Legal Framing

Mandatory Source And Evidence Rules

Authority Hierarchy

Track record

Benchmark

Adoption

SkillSafety

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