Making tariffs transparent for everyone who sells across borders
SkuWatch exists to make cross-border commerce easier for the people actually doing it — independent store owners, importers, and the brokers who help them.
The problem: the rules never stop moving
Tariff rules change constantly, and not just in the United States — countries around the world are revising their duty rates, exclusions, and trade measures faster than ever. Since 2024, the pace of change has accelerated dramatically: new duties, revisions, and exclusions now arrive in waves throughout the year rather than in a single annual update. For an ecommerce practitioner trying to price a product, plan a shipment, or decide where to source, that constant change is hard to follow and expensive to get wrong.
Most of this information already exists in public — but it is scattered across dozens of official schedules, notices, and government systems, written in language built for specialists. That gap is what makes tariffs feel opaque.
What we do about it
We track, record, and make transparent the tariff rules that affect real products, and we present them in plain language that a non-specialist can actually use. Every code has its current rates, its history of changes, the measures that affect it, and a plain-language explanation of what it means — all linked back to the official source.
The goal is simple: help ecommerce store owners do business more easily, and help anyone learn the professional vocabulary as they go.
How the information is sourced and checked
This is a community effort. Here is exactly how it is put together, so you can judge it for yourself:
- Most information is collected from the open web — official government websites, published schedules and notices, and government open APIs.
- The plain-language explanations of codes are generated by an AI language model (OpenAI GPT "luna"). They are educational aids to help you understand a page — not official legal text.
- Facts and numbers are verified by a combination of manual review — about 10%, done personally — and automated checks for the remaining 90%.
Because the rules move quickly and no automated system is perfect, always confirm anything that matters against the official source before you import.
Found something wrong? Help fix it
If you find any page with missing or incorrect information, please email [email protected]. Include the page URL and what needs to be corrected, and it will be reviewed and fixed.
Thank you for helping contribute — together we can keep this resource healthy, open, transparent, and free for everyone.