Automotive
Altana reveals your supply chain beyond Tier 1 and automates the classification, origin, and duty work behind it—so auto and manufacturing teams see what's in every product, recover overpaid duties, and keep goods moving no matter how fast the rules change.
The Altana Product Catalog is the system of record behind every compliance decision. Each part carries its classification, country of origin, duties, and the documentation that backs them—so every position you file is defensible and the work behind it is automated. It's the foundation all workflows run on.
The automotive pressure
Altana and AIAG built the industry’s standardized approach to forced-labor due diligence — and the reporting requirement is already in motion. Here’s what every OEM and Tier 1 supplier needs to know. The visibility you build to meet it also answers your tariff, EV-battery, and connected-vehicle questions, from one source of truth.
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Auto and aerospace drive most U.S. forced-labor detentions — only ~4% are released.
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AIAG’s template went live for select Tier 1s in September 2025; the full rule lands mid-2026.
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The real risk sits below Tier 1 — in the smelters and processors surveys can’t reach.
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Under UFLPA you’re guilty until proven innocent — enforcement now hits steel, copper, and lithium.
Forced labor reporting, in 12 minutes
Four short clips from our forced-labor due-diligence webinar with AIAG and MEMA — from the enforcement reality to a live, end-to-end reporting submission.
Official Press Release
U.S. Customs and Border Protection teams with Altana to create the "Global Entry for Goods," accelerating customs clearance for trusted traders amid increasing trade and tariff compliance complexity.
Key features
Identify UFLPA exposure at the supplier level. Collect documentation and respond to detentions with validated evidence. Auto-formats reports to the AIAG-standardized template.
Map your value chains beyond Tier 1, down to the components and raw materials you’ve never tracked, and surface single-source dependencies before they stop your line.
Model duty impact by supplier, component, and country — including Section 232 material-composition rates. AI determines origin with confidence and checks USMCA and other FTA eligibility across your catalog.
Request data from suppliers in-platform through Product Passports, with responses synced to your catalog automatically. Submit those same Passports to CBP to resolve inquiries and clear borders faster.
Quantified Impact
Savings via supplier price negotiations
Realized savings on tariffs
Supplier spend assessed
Indirect (Tier 2 and beyond) China spend re-allocated to trusted suppliers
Time spent verifying a supplier's upstream UFLPA compliance — down from weeks
Estimated reduction in overall tariff expenses since using Altana
Remediated compliance risk across international procurement spend in 2025
Testimonials
“What Altana is doing is not only an awesome business enabled by AI, but also matters so much for American national economic security and competitiveness. I'm all in because this matters."
Gina Raimondo,
Former U.S. Secretary of Commerce
Gina Raimondo,
Former U.S. Secretary of Commerce
“Compliant value chains don’t exist in isolation. Altana and Maersk ensure our customers can harness the power of trusted supply and distribution networks — no matter where they operate.”
Lars Karlsson,
Global Head of Trade & Customs Consulting, Maersk
Lars Karlsson,
Global Head of Trade & Customs Consulting, Maersk
“With Altana, we understand how changes in the regulatory and competitive landscape will affect our business. More importantly, Altana enables us to plan a dynamic strategy to grow our business and better serve our customers in a tumultuous trade environment.”
Eileen Smythe,
Vice President of Supply Chain, Arkema
Eileen Smythe,
Vice President of Supply Chain, Arkema
“Amid tariffs and trade disruption, Altana’s product network gives us the visibility, traceability, and collaboration to know that we are sourcing from the best partners.”
Brendan Connallon,
VP of Finance, EQI
Brendan Connallon,
VP of Finance, EQI
Altana builds N-tier value chains automatically using the world's largest active map of global supply chains — roughly half of it drawn from proprietary, first-party logistics records. You get sub-tier visibility in days, not months, without waiting on supplier survey responses.
When new tariffs drop, most teams need weeks to give leadership an exposure number. Altana auto-calculates stacked duties across your entire catalog and re-runs the math within two days of each official rate change. John Deere used this to assess $4.2B in supplier spend, realize $50M in tariff savings, and gain 30% more value in supplier negotiations.
Under UFLPA the burden of proof is on the importer: you have 30 days to prove your goods are free of forced labor, or they’re re-exported, destroyed, or abandoned. In automotive and aerospace, only about 4% of detained shipments are released. Altana gives you facility-level value-chain documentation tied to each component, so you respond with verifiable evidence instead of a frantic document chase.
Altana maps your multi-tier value chain to the facility level in days, flags forced-labor exposure before you place an order, and lets you collect supplier documentation through Product Passports. It then auto-populates the reporting template your OEM requires—turning a weeks-long document chase into a job of days.
