Governed customs intelligence
Does this ruling still hold?
Search more than 220,000 U.S. Customs rulings and trace how legal authority changes across time.
Authority reconstruction
Evidence, not marketing
Investigation environment
An investigation workspace — not a search engine
Three-pane layout for ruling research, authority comparison, and temporal legal reasoning.
HQ 088500 — Classification of portable gas grills under subheading 8424.89.00, HTSUS, as it existed in 1991.
The merchandise consists of portable outdoor cooking appliances…
Held: Classifiable in 8424.89.00 at the rate of 3.7% ad valorem.
⌘F searchable · citations highlighted
Inspectable evidence
Every recommendation must be supportable
Confidence is not enough. Evidence must be inspectable.
Why this conclusion?
- + Strong precedent agreement
- + Consistent HTS lineage
- − Conflicting authority detected
Infrastructure
Built on one of the largest customs authority corpora ever assembled
Capability metrics — not vanity statistics.
- 220,000+ Customs Rulings
- Complete Historical HTS Corpus
- Temporal LegalSnapshot Reconstruction
- Authority Graph
- Citation Trace Engine
- Research Package Generation
1,006,874 governed corpus objects · SHA-256 release integrity · deterministic retrieval core
Governed output
Research should end with a package, not a chat transcript
Exportable research packages with provenance, payload hash, and role-specific views — built for compliance files and matter records.
- ✓ Question
- ✓ Authorities Used
- ✓ Contradictions
- ✓ LegalSnapshot
- ✓ Supporting Citations
- ✓ Audit Hash
payload_hash: c5a8d80f… · 8/8 export harness PASS
Differentiation
Purpose-built legal reasoning — not another AI wrapper
| Capability | Taridex | Traditional Search | Generic AI |
|---|---|---|---|
| Can it determine whether a ruling still holds today? | YES | NO | NO |
| Can it reconstruct historical HTS context? | YES | NO | NO |
| Can it produce an auditable research package? | YES | NO | PARTIAL |
Factual comparison. Traditional search = CROSS / ruling lookup. Generic AI = horizontal legal chat.
Westlaw for customs and trade law
Governed decision support for brokers, trade counsel, and compliance teams — built on evidence, provenance, and inspectable legal reasoning.
Security & data handling · Methodology · Demo environment certified