Origin Determination

Stop paying duty you don't owe

Every dutiable shipment without a preference claim pays the full rate. Sail's AI determines preferential origin across your whole catalog, lane by lane, and manages the declarations behind every claim. Your team reviews and signs off.

Determine the catalog. Bank the savings.

Product catalogEvery SKU, HS code, BOMManufacturingSites, processes, cost dataSupplier LTSDsDeclarations, validity windowsVendorsSupplier master, component origins
Sail Origin
AI determining
Detecting lanes from shipment data
Walking BOM components
Resolving agreement per lane
Applying product-specific rules
Computing MaxNOM / RVC
Origin per lane
Live
DE → GB
UK-EU TCA · chemical reaction
Preferential
DE → CA
EU-Canada CETA · chemical reaction
Preferential
DE → JP
EU-Japan EPA · MaxNOM 35%
Preferential
CA → US
USMCA · value rule per shipment
Value-dependent
DE → KR
EU-South Korea · MFN 0%
Skipped

Your catalog changes daily. So do its determinations.

Sail's AI evaluates the entire catalog up front, then keeps it true. It detects your active trade lanes straight from shipment data, no manual lane setup, and watches everything that can flip a status: a new BOM version, a fresh batch, a price move, an updated FTA text. Affected products go stale and re-run automatically, and the statuses in your ERP stay current without anyone maintaining a spreadsheet.

  • Trade lanes detected automatically from your shipment history
  • BOM versions, batches, and price changes trigger re-determination
  • AI monitors FTA rule updates, marks affected products stale, re-runs them
  • New products and new lanes picked up as your data syncs

A legal trace behind every determination

AI runs the determination and shows all of its work. It tries the rule alternatives of each agreement in order and records every attempt with its arithmetic: wholly obtained, specified processes, tariff shift, value thresholds. Each run pins the exact BOM version, rule version, and declarations it used. And when someone asks why, the built-in assistant explains the determination in plain language, citing the rule and the evidence.

  • Every rule attempt recorded with its outcome and the numbers behind it
  • AI assistant explains any rule or determination in plain language
  • Inputs pinned per run: BOM version, rule library version, declarations
  • Overrides require written justification and sign-off, never silent

AI reads every declaration and chases what's missing

LTSDs and origin evidence arrive as PDFs, scans, and email replies, in any language. Sail's AI parses each one, matches it to the supplier and the components it covers, and checks validity on arrival. Follow-up runs on its own: renewal requests before expiry, chasers for missing declarations, replies matched back to the open request. A person confirms before anything is used, and your own statements on origin are issued from the same data.

  • AI parses declarations in any format or language, a person confirms
  • Each declaration matched to the supplier and the SKUs it covers
  • Renewals requested and chased automatically before expiry
  • A claim that would rest on expired evidence is blocked, never silently passed

Know your headroom before prices move

Value-rule determinations show how far costs can rise or prices can fall before preferential status flips. The what-if panel simulates a different supplier, site, or price before you commit to anything, and the uplift view finds products where one sourcing change would create preference that is not there today.

  • Headroom on every value-rule determination, in currency, not guesswork
  • Simulate site, supplier, and price changes with the same trace transparency
  • Uplift report finds products one change away from qualifying
  • Cost-benefit thresholds so nobody chases preference that costs more than it saves

Savings become a report, not a suspicion

Reporting shows what preference is actually worth: duty claimed, duty left on the table, and the exact products and missing declarations standing between you and the rest. Every recovered percentage point is a new, recurring saving, and the gaps come ranked with the action that unlocks them.

  • Duty claimed under preference and duty left on the table, by product and site
  • Determination coverage, exceptions, and declaration health at a glance
  • Gaps ranked by value with the remediation that closes them
  • Exports to Excel, PDF, and CSV, schedulable to a distribution list

Put a number on your unclaimed preference

Book a 30-minute demo and we will walk through origin determination on products like yours, from BOM to signed statement, and show where the savings sit.