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Overview
Option 1
Harmonized System (HS) product classification
Traditional vs. AI-enhanced
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This infographic compares traditional and AI-enhanced approaches to HS product classification.
Discover improvements in efficiency, accuracy, and compliance across all 5 workflow steps.
Provides context-rich research content and auto-generates rationales
Efficiency
Ensures more comprehensive and accurate classifications with AI-generated similarity suggestions
Accuracy
Establishes consistent product classification across diverse dataset and reduces time spent on information solicitation
Pain point solved
Overall impact with AI-enhanced software
• Manual data extraction from PDFs, spreadsheets, technical drawings
• Human interpretation and data entry
• Sourcing materials from engineers and parties
Human eye, copy/paste, basic text editors
Hours/Days per complex product
Prone to human error, oversight, inconsistencies
Traditional/Manual
• AI ingests product data via ERP integration
• Concurrent processing aggregates and standardizes data
• Extracts key classification attributes automatically
• Identifies similarities to previously classified products
Natural language processing-powered extraction, AI-driven cleansing
Minutes per product
High accuracy; reduces data omission and errors
AI-enhanced software
Gather and document complete product information: function, composition, materials, specifications, and intended use.
Step 1 Product analysis
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Significantly faster classification of core HS codes, driven by pattern recognition that continuously refines and accelerates the process
Efficiency
Reduces subjective errors by learning from past classifications to ensure consistent HS assignments and standardized decision-making
Accuracy
Speeds up the foundational classification and reduces training time for new classifiers. It makes the process more standardized by recognizing and learning from existing classifications, allowing it to provide increasingly informed and precise suggestions based on prior decisions and established patterns.
Pain point solved
Overall impact with AI-enhanced software
Classify product using 6-digit international HS code; use product’s primary function and composition.
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Step 2 HS code assignment
Identify and resolve inconsistency in classification data, freeing your experts for more strategic high-impact activities
Efficiency
Learns from your expert's decisions to provide increasingly accurate suggestions and higher similarity scores
Accuracy
Reduces manual research and country-specific code complexity due lack of standardization and consolidation
Pain point solved
Overall impact with AI-enhanced software
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Apply Harmonized Tariff Schedule (HTS); verify with relevant tariff with relevant country tariff schedules.
Step 3 Country-specific code determination
Streamlines and accelerates validation, cross-referencing and rationale building
Efficiency
Ensures correct classifications by providing context-enhanced HS schedule information for easy reading and comprehension
Accuracy
Enhances overall compliance by reducing the chances of missing specific country regulations
Compliance
Overall impact with AI-enhanced software
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Verify compliance with destination country.
Step 4 Validation and cross referencing
Creates a robust, transparent, and easily auditable record of all decisions.
Compliance
Automates tracking and ensures timely review for ongoing compliance.
Efficiency
Simplifies audit preparation and ensures evergreen compliance records.
Pain points solved
Overall impact with AI-enhanced software
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Record final classification codes and rationale; create audit trail for compliance; easier internal review and classification updates.
Step 5 Recordkeeping and Audit-Readiness
Process
Tools
Time
Accuracy
Process
Tools
Time
Accuracy
Process
Tools
Time
Accuracy
AI-enhanced software
Traditional/Manual
AI analyzes product descriptions, function, and composition using pattern recognition and prescriptive machine learning to suggest fully qualified 6-digit HS codes with percentage confidence scores
Human interpretation of product function/ composition against General Rules of Interpretation and HS Nomenclature
Process
Machine language (ML) algorithms
HS Nomenclature (multi country), human judgment, past experience
Tools
Minutes
15 – 30 min per product
Time
Consistent output and enhanced efficiency compared to traditional methods; consistent output
Varies significantly based on classifier experience; subjective interpretations
Accuracy
Process
Tools
Time
Accuracy
AI-enhanced software
Traditional/Manual
AI systems suggest HTS codes for research and approval referencing specific country codes
Manual extension of fully qualified HS code per country-specific tariff schedules and notes
Process
Automated lookup engines, API integration with ERP system
HTS country tariff schedules, human research
Tools
Up to a minute
5 – 20 minutes depending on the number of countries
Time
Research interface
Accuracy problems due to inconsistent availability of data
Accuracy
Process
Tools
Time
Accuracy
AI-Enhanced software
Traditional/Manual
AI analyzes product descriptions, function, and composition using pattern recognition and prescriptive machine learning to suggest precise 6-digit HS codes with percentage confidence scores
Human interpretation of product function/ composition against General Rules of Interpretation and HS Nomenclature
Process
ML algorithms
HS Nomenclature (multi country), human judgment, past experience
Tools
Minutes
15 – 30 min per product
Time
Consistent output and enhanced efficiency compared to traditional methods; consistent output
Varies significantly based on classifier experience; subjective interpretations
Accuracy
Process
Tools
Time
Accuracy
AI-enhanced software
Traditional/Manual
Auto generates rationales based on the approver’s decision, the class of the expert’s classification decisions and large language model (LLM)
Manual search in various databases and HS schedules and chapters, and consulting specific regulations governing the HS code you have chosen
Process
Real-time database synching
Human review and online search
Tools
Minutes
Hours per product batch
Time
Improves accuracy by identifying subtle matches, streamling human review
Human fatigue and extensive manual cross-checking can lead to missed details
Accuracy
Process
Tools
Time
Accuracy
AI-enhanced software
Traditional/Manual
All classification decisions, assumptions, and rationale are transparently recorded and auditable within the system (e.g., chat log format).
Manual logging of classification decisions and supporting documents. Periodic manual review to ensure continued accuracy.
Process
Integrated audit trail systems, version control, automated notification. Automatically detects HS code changes and accelerates their resolution.
Spreadsheets, internal databases, document management.
Tools
Real-time logging of rationales for review and approval
Varies; ongoing manual maintenance
Time
Comprehensive and consistent audit trail; timely updates
Risk of incomplete rationale; manual updates can be delayed
Accuracy
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© 2025 Thomson Reuters TR6532094/11-25
Ready to see how GenAI can revolutionize your HS product classification workflow?
Discover detailed insights into our AI-enhanced process and empower your team with smarter, faster, and more accurate trade solutions today.
Thomson Reuters is not a consumer reporting agency and none of its services or the data contained therein constitute a “consumer report” as such term is defined in the Federal Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA), 15 U.S.C. sec. 1681 et seq. The data provided to you may not be used as a factor in consumer debt collection decisioning; establishing a consumer’s eligibility for credit, insurance, employment, government benefits, or housing; or for any other purpose authorized under the FCRA. By accessing one of our services, you agree not to use the service or data for any purpose authorized under the FCRA or in relation to taking an adverse action relating to a consumer application.
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Overall impact with AI-enhanced software
Simplifies audit preparation and ensures evergreen compliance records.
Pain point solved
Automates tracking and ensures timely review for ongoing compliance.
Efficiency
Creates a robust, transparent, and easily auditable record of all decisions.
Compliance
AI-enhanced software
Traditional/Manual
Process
Tools
Time
Accuracy
All classification decisions, assumptions, and rationale are transparently recorded and auditable within the system (e.g., chat log format).
Manual logging of classification decisions and supporting documents. Periodic manual review to ensure continued accuracy.
Process
Integrated audit trail systems, version control, automated notification. Automatically detects HS code changes and accelerates their resolution.
Spreadsheets, internal databases, document management.
Tools
Real-time logging of rationales for review and approval
Varies; ongoing manual maintenance
Time
Comprehensive and consistent audit trail; timely updates
Risk of incomplete rationale; manual updates can be delayed
Accuracy
Record final classification codes and rationale; create audit trail for compliance; easier internal review and classification updates.
Step 5 Documentation and review
Overall impact with AI-enhanced software
Enhances overall compliance by reducing the chances of missing specific country regulations
Compliance
Ensures correct classifications by providing context-enhanced HS schedule information for easy reading and comprehension
Accuracy
Streamlines and accelerates validation, cross-referencing and rationale building
Efficiency
AI-enhanced software
Traditional/Manual
Process
Tools
Time
Accuracy
Auto generates rationales based on the approver’s decision, the class of the expert’s classification decisions and large language model (LLM)
Manual search in various databases and HS schedules and chapters, and consulting specific regulations governing the HS code you have chosen
Process
Real-time database synching
Human review and online search
Tools
Minutes
Hours per product batch
Time
Improves accuracy by identifying subtle matches, streamling human review
Human fatigue and extensive manual cross-checking can lead to missed details
Accuracy
Verify compliance with destination country.
Step 4 Validation and cross referencing
Overall impact with AI-enhanced software
Reduces manual research and country-specific code complexity due lack of standardization and consolidation
Pain point solved
Learns from your expert's decisions to provide increasingly accurate suggestions and higher similarity scores
Accuracy
Identify and resolve inconsistency in classification data, freeing your experts for more strategic high-impact activities
Efficiency
AI-enhanced software
Traditional/Manual
Process
Tools
Time
Accuracy
AI systems suggest HTS codes for research and approval referencing specific country codes
Manual extension of fully qualified HS code per country-specific tariff schedules and notes
Process
Automated lookup engines, API integration with ERP system
HTS country tariff schedules, human research
Tools
Up to a minute
5 – 20 minutes depending on the number of countries
Time
Research interface
Accuracy problems due to inconsistent availability of data
Accuracy
Apply Harmonized Tariff Schedule (HTS); verify with relevant tariff with relevant country tariff schedules.
Step 3 Country-specific code determination
Overall impact with AI-enhanced software
Speeds up the foundational classification and reduces training time for new classifiers. It makes the process more standardized by recognizing and learning from existing classifications, allowing it to provide increasingly informed and precise suggestions based on prior decisions and established patterns.
Pain point solved
Reduces subjective errors by learning from past classifications to ensure consistent HS assignments and standardized decision-making
Accuracy
Significantly faster classification of core HS codes, driven by pattern recognition that continuously refines and accelerates the process
Efficiency
AI-enhanced software
Traditional/Manual
Process
Tools
Time
Accuracy
AI analyzes product descriptions, function, and composition using pattern recognition and prescriptive machine learning to suggest fully qualified 6-digit HS codes with percentage confidence scores
Human interpretation of product function/ composition against General Rules of Interpretation and HS Nomenclature
Process
Machine language (ML) algorithms
HS Nomenclature (multi country), human judgment, past experience
Tools
Minutes
15 – 30 min per product
Time
Consistent output and enhanced efficiency compared to traditional methods; consistent output
Varies significantly based on classifier experience; subjective interpretations
Accuracy
Classify product using 6-digit international HS code; use product’s primary function and composition.
Step 2 HS code assignment
Overall impact with AI-enhanced software
Establishes consistent product classification across diverse dataset and reduces time spent on information solicitation
Pain point solved
Ensures more comprehensive and accurate classifications with AI-generated similarity suggestions
Accuracy
Provides context-rich research content and auto-generates rationales
Efficiency
AI-enhanced software
Traditional/Manual
Process
Tools
Time
Accuracy
• AI ingests product data via ERP integration
• Concurrent processing aggregates and standardizes data
• Extracts key classification attributes automatically
• Identifies similarities to previously classified products
• Manual data extraction from PDFs, spreadsheets, technical drawings
• Human interpretation and data entry
• Sourcing materials from engineers and parties
Process
Natural language processing-powered extraction, AI-driven cleansing
Human eye, copy/paste, basic text editors
Tools
Minutes per product
Hours/Days per complex product
Time
High accuracy; reduces data omission and errors
Prone to human error, oversight, inconsistencies
Accuracy
Gather and document complete product information: function, composition, materials, specifications, and intended use.
Step 1 Product analysis
Explore the comparison
This infographic compares traditional and AI-enhanced approaches to HS product classification.
Discover improvements in efficiency, accuracy, and compliance across all 5 workflow steps.
Learn more
Or request a demo
All classification decisions and rationale are transparently recorded and auditable within the system. HS codes are suggested, but final decisions require user action. Both HS code and rationale changes are logged in the change log process, with the user identified as the author.
Harmonized System (HS) product classification
Traditional vs.
AI-enhanced