Altana For Trade Compliance

Keep products
trade-ready, from manufacture to closure.

Trade compliance teams are drowning in manual classification, tariff volatility, and forced-labor risk — with tools never built for today’s trade environment.

Altana’s AI gets your products ready to cross the border and keeps them ready as the rules change — so you prep entries faster, avoid detentions, never overpay or underpay duties, and qualify for every trade preference.

A suite of solutions

Key features for staying trade-ready

Once products are in the catalog, Altana’s trade-manager agent organizes everything you need for a product to cross the border — and keeps your products trade-ready as the rules change. The manual scramble across spreadsheets, brokers, and consultants becomes one fast, defensible workflow.

HS classification

Classifies to full national tariff depth, backed by rulings and clear reasoning.

Country of origin

Applies rules of origin against your real value chain, with audit-ready rationale.

Free-trade agreements

Evaluates qualification paths, tariff shifts and RVC, re-checking to claim USMCA and other FTAs.

Section 232 estimation

Records 232 exposure at material level: steel, aluminum, copper — with per-material rates and country of smelt/cast.

Duty calculation

Computes per-product net effective rate, stacking every program and recalculating on schedule changes.

Denied party screening

Identify forced labor, sanctions, and other denied party exposure at the raw material level. Collect supplier validations, respond to detentions, and identify compliant suppliers.

PGA / OGA requirements

Flags PGA obligations before filing, with the responsible agency on the record.

Comprehensive value-chain visibility & management

Screens your multi-tier value chain for risk; automated supplier outreach keeps records current.

Collaborate with your entire trade team

Network problems demand network solutions. Altana helps teams share documents with brokers and CBP so your products are always trade-ready.

Collaboration with your broker

Share documented records with brokers, then audit their filings against your catalog.

Collaboration with CBP

Pre-validate compliance with CBP before goods ship, ensuring smooth border entry.

Audit & monitor — continuously

Build your Altana product catalogue and automatically keep track of duty payments, new trade regulations, and refunds in real time.

Post-entry audit

Compares what you filed against what you owed, surfacing overpayments and underpayments.

Continuous audit

Checks classifications against current rules, flagging misclassifications and over/underpayments as rules change.

Trade touches every function. Why doesn't it have its own seat?

Trade used to be seen as a back-office function. Now, leaders are coming to realize that trade compliance informs sourcing, network design, cost modeling, and overall business health. Our VP of Trade, Julie Parks, makes the case for a strategic seat for trade — while recent Gartner® research lays out five actions to earn it.

One system of record for your products

Altana organizes your product data into one collaborative catalog — where you and your suppliers illuminate the multi-tier sourcing paths behind every product.

Onboard

Upload and integrate product data. No more siloed spreadsheets.

Illuminate

Altana maps multi-tier sourcing paths using AI and supplier data.

Collaborate

Suppliers manage their own catalog on Altana and link to yours to simplify verification.

Verify

AI fills gaps, flags risk, and pre-validates with customs — all on Altana.

Altana was built for today's trade environment

Legacy Global Trade Management software is breaking under geopolitics and constant regulatory change. Altana is the AI-native platform built for what global trade has become.

  • One connected system of record

    Classification, COO, FTA, duty, and screening live on one product record and feed each other — not point tools bolted onto spreadsheets and ERPs. Knowledge survives turnover; every decision carries an audit trail.

  • Multi-tier value-chain data

    Verified visibility into the value chain behind each product — the data layer that makes origin, forced-labor, and 232 defensible instead of guesswork. No single-tier tool can reach it.

  • AI that shows its work

    AI runs across the whole trade-readiness workflow and reasons over verified value-chain data, showing its work on every determination. You stay in control: it suggests, you decide.

  • Network collaboration via Product Passports

    Share a product's trusted attribute set as a Product Passport, to brokers and regulators, so entries are pre-validated before they reach the border. Like Global Entry, but for goods.

How our AI network works

Altana’s AI operates on Altana’s Supply Chain Graph — the world’s largest, most detailed view of how goods move across the globe, built from public trade data, commercial sources, and proprietary shipment data from the world’s leading logistics providers, like Maersk. That foundation enables AI-driven network collaboration on your products and shipments that you can actually trust –– and which no generic, publicly trained AI can replicate

Diagram example of Altana's value-chain mapping for copper foil
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Value-chain mapping

Share a bill of materials and supplier data, and Altana's AI suggests which entities are likely in your upstream value chains — completing the picture for you to verify.

Diagram example of Altana's trade compliance platform
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Automated trade compliance

Altana's AI handles work that's always been manual, based on your actual product value chains: HS codes, FTA eligibility, origin, duties, and forced-labor screening.

Screenshot from Altana's product passport platform
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Product Passports

AI-suggested product attributes travel with the goods as a Product Passport. Logistics providers, CBP, and suppliers verify and remediate, so goods clear before the border.

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Value-chain mapping

Share a bill of materials and supplier data, and Altana's AI suggests which entities are likely in your upstream value chains — completing the picture for you to verify.

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Automated trade compliance

Altana's AI handles work that's always been manual, based on your actual product value chains: HS codes, FTA eligibility, origin, duties, and forced-labor screening.

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Product Passports

AI-suggested product attributes travel with the goods as a Product Passport. Logistics providers, CBP, and suppliers verify and remediate, so goods clear before the border.

Real-world results

With Altana, customers have achieved

8X

Trade workflow efficiency

Classification, origin, FTA, and duty work that took hours by hand now happens in minutes, on one connected workflow.

36%

Reduction in total cost of trade compliance

Lower combined spend across consultants, brokerage, and software as the work comes in-house onto one platform.

$615M

In duty savings

Recovered overpayments, captured FTA qualifications, and corrected rate stacks that were quietly draining margin.

100%

Reduction in CF-28s and detentions on entries

Errors caught and remediated before they ever reach CBP, with shipment pre-validation through Product Passports.

The network for trusted trade

Ready to keep every product trade-ready?

See how trade compliance teams use Altana to prep entries in a fraction of the time, defend every filing, and never overpay or underpay duties.