Your duty costs, on the books. Every SKU, every change, every dollar — dated, sourced, yours.
A founding subscription to the Duty Ledger app: your per-category duty digest and
top-10-SKU landed-cost statements starting now, the full self-serve ledger + radar + evidence packs at
launch. No sales call, cancel anytime, your data exports to your own storage either way.
$19/mo, locked forever, 25 seats.
Week 1: your first digest → ~Day 14: your first landed-cost statement (broker invoices alone are
enough) → refreshed quarterly → Q1–Q2 2027: the full app, or the guarantee.
4,267 federal tariff documents on record, latest published 2026-07-17 — recorded daily at 15:00 UTC since July 12, 2026.
The guarantee, printed
“App live by Sep 30 2027 — or your choice: every founding dollar
back, or founding price frozen + 50% off the app for life whenever it ships, statements
continuing free until then.”
One date, subscriber's choice, in writing. The digest and statements are the working product you're
paying for now — the app is the printed bonus, and this line is what happens if it's late.
Who runs this
Khoi Le. I'm a software engineer who builds small, quiet services; Duty Ledger
is one of them. I'm not a customs broker and not a lawyer — which is exactly why nothing here is advice,
and every number on this site links to the government text or filed record it came from. The collector
has recorded every tariff-relevant Federal Register document daily since July 12, 2026; what ships and
what gets corrected is logged, dated, on the public changelog.
Reach me: khoile5399@gmail.com — one inbox, answered daily.
The refund policy
Cancel anytime. Billing stops at the end of the paid month; everything already
sent to you is yours to keep.
The guarantee above is binding. If the app isn't live by September 30, 2027, you
pick: every founding dollar refunded, or founding price frozen + 50% off the app for life with
statements continuing free until it ships.
If this service is ever wound down before the app ships, any prepaid remainder is
refunded pro-rata, announced on the changelog — no silent disappearing.
Requests: email khoile5399@gmail.com. Billing runs
through Paddle (merchant of record); refunds return to the original payment method.
Full text: refund policy.
The sample issue — free to read, permanently
Proof before payment: the digest's latest full public issue. Paid issues do this for
your category and, in your statements, your actual SKUs.
Duty Ledger Digest · Kitchen & Home imports
Issue No. 0 — the public sample
Per-category, reconciliation-first: the three HTS buckets this category lives in,
what actually moved between June 16 and July 15, 2026, and the exact questions to take to your broker.
Category kitchen & home (DTC importers)Window 16 Jun – 15 Jul 2026Status permanent public sample — paid issues anchor to your filed codes
How to read this
Three colors, one rule. Verified quoted from the linked
government text or a dated live lookup — hand it to an auditor. Labeled estimate
arithmetic on stated inputs — check the inputs, not our math. Ask your broker
a genuine classification call — we flag it, we never guess it. One invented rate would be fatal to this
product, so there are none.
Your three buckets
Where a kitchen & home importer's duty bill usually lives. Headings are context, not
classification — your filed entries are the source of truth (and CBP's January 2026 AI-classification
ruling, HQ H350722, is exactly why we defer full codes to your broker or your own 7501s).
7615.10 — aluminum table/kitchen articlesVerifiede.g. cast: 3.1%Sub-lines differ (7615.10.20 "Cast" shows 3.1% general). Same live lookup, 16 Jul 2026.
7013.42 — low-expansion glass table/kitchen wareVerifiedvalue-tieredRate depends on unit value (e.g. 22.5% not over $3 each; 11.3% over $3 but not over $5). Same live lookup, 16 Jul 2026 — one reason the per-SKU ledger beats a flat "rate" column.
What moved this month
Move 1 · Certain — the 10% surcharge sunsets July 24
The temporary import surcharge that has sat on top of nearly every entry since late February ends
next Friday, by operation of law. The government's own words:
"Accordingly, I impose, for a period of 150 days, a temporary import surcharge of
10 percent ad valorem, as described below, on articles imported into the United States, effective
February 24, 2026."
Priced against one illustrative stainless-cookware entry (replace the entered value with yours):
Entered value per entryLabeled input$42,000Illustrative input for the sample — a real statement uses the entered value from your broker invoice or 7501.
Base duty, HTS 7323.93.00 · 2%Verified$8402% × $42,000. The 2% survives July 24 — only the surcharge dies.
§122 surcharge · 10% (through Jul 23)Labeled estimate$4,20010% × $42,000, rate quoted above. Assumes no 9903.03.02–.11 exemption applies to your goods — that's a filing fact on your entries, not a guess we'll make.
§301 / AD-CVD stack, if China-originAsk your brokernot includedWhether your line sits on an active §301 list or an AD/CVD order — and at what rate — is a classification call on your real entries. Unaffected by the July 24 sunset either way.
What the sunset removes, per such entry$4,200The full worked briefing, with every source linked: the July 24 sunset page.
Ask your broker: "On my entries filed since Feb 24, what did we actually pay under
heading 9903.03.01 — and are my July entries coded so the surcharge drops off for anything entered
July 24 or later?"
Move 2 · In force — de minimis is suspended for direct parcels
Two final rules published June 24 suspend the de minimis exemption indefinitely — one for mail
shipments (with a new postal informal-entry process), one for merchandise arriving by every other mode.
If any of your volume ships direct to U.S. buyers as low-value parcels, its entry math changed.
Federal Register docs
2026-12669
and
2026-12670
(both Rules, pub. 24 Jun 2026) — in the Duty Ledger archive. We quote no parcel-level dollar figures
here: what a parcel now owes depends on your channel and classification.
Ask your broker
Ask your broker (or 3PL): "Which of my shipments were clearing under de minimis, and
what do those same parcels pay as informal entries now?"
Move 3 · Proposed, not in force — the Section 301 forced-labor wave
On June 5, USTR published determinations in 60 investigations and proposed new tariffs:
"…the Trade Representative proposes 10% as the rate of additional duties. For all
other economies, the Trade Representative proposes 12.5% as the rate of additional duties."
Comments closed July 6; hearings ran the week of July 7. No rate is in force from this action
yet — any duties land only via a further Federal Register notice, which had not been published
as of July 16. The collector checks daily; the day it publishes, it's in the archive and in this digest.
Ask your broker: "If a final notice issues, which of my origin countries are on it,
at which of the two rates — and does it stack on my existing duties?"
Watchlist
2026-13663 (7 Jul) — Commerce opens comments on a Section 232 national-security investigation of anthracite coal. Early-stage; steel-adjacent inputs worth a glance.
2026-13975 (10 Jul) — Steel racks from China: court decision not in harmony with the AD determination. If you import steel racks/parts, cash-deposit rates can move.
2026-14020 (13 Jul) — Common alloy aluminum sheet (Bahrain): preliminary AD review results. Input-side signal for aluminum housewares; captured by the collector the day it published.
The receipt
Every document above is a row in the Duty Ledger archive — 4,267 federal tariff documents on record, recorded daily
at 15:00 UTC since 12 Jul 2026 (documents older than that were backfilled on 12 Jul 2026 from the
Federal Register's public API; documents from 13 Jul onward were captured the day they published, and
the archive stores exactly when each was first seen). If any number here differs from your broker
invoice, reply and say so — the reconciliation, and the correction if we owe one, ships in the next
issue and on the public changelog.
Two questions, thirty seconds. They exist so your first landed-cost statement can be built from
documents you actually have — broker invoices alone are enough to start.
Checkout and billing handled by Paddle (merchant of record). Cancel anytime.
Pricing
Tier
Price
What
Founding (25 seats)
$19/mo, locked forever
digest + quarterly landed-cost statement now; full app + free onboarding at launch;
the printed guarantee above
Standard (at app launch)
$29/mo
ledger + radar + monthly statement, ≤250 SKUs
Plus (at app launch)
$59/mo
≤1,000 SKUs + evidence packs + CSV export
Past 25 seats, the list becomes the waitlist — same order, no billing until a seat opens.
Straight answers
“ustariffrates / AMZ-Prep’s calculator is free.”
They’re excellent — for looking up rates. We don’t sell lookup: we keep YOUR book — your SKUs, your entries, your paid duties, dated and source-linked, plus the statement and evidence packs your CPA can actually use. The free sites tell you what the law says; your ledger proves what it cost you.
“My broker already alerts me.”
Keep them. Broker alerts are generic to their whole client list and live in their system. Your ledger is per-SKU on your real volumes, portable, and audit-ready even if you switch brokers — it works without needing anyone’s cooperation.
“What about GingerControl / the enterprise suites?”
Excellent for staffed compliance teams — sales calls, multi-week implementations, officer pricing. We’re the no-call version: your own entry files, $29, cancel anytime, data exports monthly either way.
Is this a newsletter?
No — it’s a founding subscription to software being built in public. The per-category digest and quarterly landed-cost statements are the working benefit you get from week one; the self-serve ledger app (upload your entry docs → per-SKU duty history, radar, evidence packs) is the product, due Q1–Q2 2027 — or the printed guarantee below applies, your choice.
What happens on July 24?
The 10% Section 122 import surcharge expires by operation of law — and a proposed Section 301 action is queued behind it, not synchronized with it. The full briefing, with every claim linked to the government’s own text, is free: see the July 24 page.
No sales calls, no demos — these answers and this
page do the selling. Anything they don’t cover: khoile5399@gmail.com.