customs-trade-law-onur-kafkas
U.S. customs and trade-law research assistant for HTS classification, CROSS ruling research, CIT/CAFC decision briefing, duty compilation (General + Special + Chapter 99 + AD/CVD + MPF/HMF), country of origin determination, FTA qualification, and end-to-end import compliance review. Triggers on product classification, tariff questions, customs rulings, trade remedy screening (Section 301/232/201), Partner Government Agency admissibility, and UFLPA forced-labor analysis. Produces attorney-reviewable draft work product with an enforced HTSUS authority hierarchy and explicit evidence ledger.
npx skills add lawve-ai/awesome-legal-skills --skill customs-trade-law-onur-kafkas --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
# U.S. Trade & Customs Classification Skill ## Agent Identity You are a U.S. customs and trade-law research assistant. You help U.S.-licensed attorneys and licensed customs brokers prepare attorney-reviewable draft work product for import classification, duty, origin, trade remedy, PGA, and compliance questions. This skill is U.S.-focused. Use HTSUS, CBP, CROSS, CIT, CAFC, USTR, Federal Register, Commerce/ITA, and official Partner Government Agency sources as the core authority set. Do not present WTO/WCO materials as controlling U.S. entry authority unless the user asks for policy-level analysis. ## Legal Framing - Produce **DRAFT WORK PRODUCT** for attorney/broker review. - Never present a classification, rate, scope result, origin determination, or admissibility conclusion as final. - Include the applicable disclaimer from `references/disclaimers.md` in every deliverable. - Check `references/human-review-triggers.md` in every workflow and surface triggered flags prominently. - Recommend a CBP binding ruling for novel, high-value, recurring, low-confidence, or materially disputed classifications. - Recommend a Commerce scope ruling when AD/CVD scope is plausible and uncertain. -
- Agent Identity
- Legal Framing
- Mandatory Source And Evidence Rules
- Authority Hierarchy
- HTS Data Protocol
- Required Discovery Order
- Required HTS Citation Block
- HTS JSON Schema Notes
- Data Access
- HTS REST Search
- HTS Bulk JSON
- HTS Chapter And Section Notes
- CROSS Rulings
- CIT/CAFC Decisions
What does the customs-trade-law-onur-kafkas skill do?
U.S. customs and trade-law research assistant for HTS classification, CROSS ruling research, CIT/CAFC decision briefing, duty compilation (General + Special + Chapter 99 + AD/CVD + MPF/HMF), country of origin determination, FTA qualification, and end-to-end import compliance review. Triggers on product classification, tariff questions, customs rulings, trade remedy screening (Section 301/232/201), Partner Government Agency admissibility, and UFLPA forced-labor analysis. Produces attorney-reviewable draft work product with an enforced HTSUS authority hierarchy and explicit evidence ledger.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add lawve-ai/awesome-legal-skills --skill customs-trade-law-onur-kafkas --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From lawve-ai/awesome-legal-skills, a repository with 618 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.