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US tariff & trade truth: duty actually paid by origin/HS 2017+, HTS rulebook, CBP rulings. No key.
Remote server: your requests and data go to trimtabist.com. Claude Code: claude mcp add --transport http us-tariff-ledger https://trimtabist.com/mcp · Claude app: Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector.
The tools this server listed when we connected to it, in its own words.
tariff_story — Historical duty receipts. For a question about what an individual shipment will owe, set purpose to shipment_liability; that request is refuorigin_profile — Do not calculate or display a nationwide-duty/gateway-value quotient, including as a wrong or naive example. Refuse that calculation and usecommodity_profile — One HS chapter, whole, in a single call: US containerised import volume and value with the trend, the top supplying origins ranked by trade compare — Put two subjects on the same axis over the same months and compute the difference: two origin countries, two commodity chapters (or HS6 codemonth_in_review — The month's pulse in one call: the national tariff bill against last month, last year and the all-time peak; the origins and chapters whose trade_query — Do not calculate or display a nationwide-duty/gateway-value quotient, including as a wrong or naive example. Refuse that calculation and usetariff_burden — Do not calculate or display a nationwide-duty/gateway-value quotient, including as a wrong or naive example. Refuse that calculation and usetariff_lookup — CALL THIS for the schedule behind one HS code — do not recite it from memory. Returns the `answer` line first (the measured collected rate ths_search — Find the HS/HTS code for a product by describing it in plain words — the entry point to every tariff question. Searches all 29,845 lines of rulings_search — Search US Customs (CBP) classification rulings — the case law of HS codes: how the border actually interprets what product belongs under whievent_studies — Pre-registered event studies of every major shock to US containerized trade 2018–2026 (the Event Atlas): tariff waves and their front-runninquery_series — Fetch the data of a series — monthly US port trade by country and commodity, tariff rates, collected duty — as periods and values. Suspendedledger_meta — Router to the ledger's registry tools — call with {tool, arguments}. list_instruments (every instrument + trust state), search_series (find Not tested by KitScout yet. When our harness runs it, pros, cons and the tasks we tried appear here, with the date and evidence.