The Billion-Line Barrier: How AI Turns Your Toughest BOMs into Duty Drawback Revenue
Sasha Bozic
3 mins read
Dec 11, 2025
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The Data Wall
In the world of global trade management, the Bill of Materials (BOM) is often treated as a necessary evil. It is the DNA of your product—a massive, sprawling list of ingredients that defines what you build. But for Duty Drawback professionals, the BOM is often something else entirely: a wall.
When a BOM stretches for thousands of lines, contains nested sub-assemblies, or changes weekly with new model years, manual reconciliation becomes impossible. The data is too "noisy" to clean, so the potential drawback claim—often worth millions—is abandoned.
At Caspian, we believe complexity shouldn't cost you capital. Whether you serve the construction, aviation, or logistics sectors, our AI doesn't just read your data; it masters it.
Heavy Machinery: Crushing the Data Wall
If you manufacture bulldozers, cranes, or industrial engines, you aren't just building big machines; you are building massive data sets. Your BOMs stretch for thousands of lines, filled with imported fasteners, specialized steel, and hydraulic components.
The Challenge: The sheer volume of parts makes manual duty drawback reconciliation a non-starter. Trying to match thousands of imported rivets to exported excavators manually is a recipe for error, and ultimately, you leave money behind.
The Caspian Solution: Our software is built to shoulder the weight of heavy equipment data.
Ingestion: We seamlessly ingest enormous BOM files—whether they are messy, consolidated, or pulled from legacy ERPs.
Matching: Our AI engine rapidly cross-references every imported component with export records.
Result: We guarantee every eligible dollar is captured, regardless of whether the part was physically used or matched under the Substitution provision.
Automotive: Speed and Substitution
Automotive manufacturing is defined by velocity: rapid model changes, global sourcing, and complex, nested sub-assemblies.
The Challenge: Traditional drawback methods cannot keep pace with the massive number of functionally interchangeable parts needed for Manufacturing Substitution claims. When platforms change year over year, the paper trail usually breaks.
The Caspian Solution: We move beyond the spreadsheet.
Normalization: Our Machine Learning (ML) models interpret and normalize highly variable automotive BOM formats.
Mapping: The system instantaneously maps imported parts to exported vehicles, identifying substitution claims across multiple production runs.
Result: Your team focuses on manufacturing, while our system handles the translation. We ensure no eligible duty is missed due to the complexity of model turnovers.
Aerospace: Mastering the Multi-Tier
Aerospace BOMs are the ultimate test of traceability. These are multi-tiered assembly trees where a single high-value import might be buried five levels deep inside an engine sub-assembly.
The Challenge: The regulatory complexity and strict traceability requirements of aerospace often discourage companies from pursuing drawback. It feels too risky and too difficult to dig for those high-cost components deep within the airframe.
The Caspian Solution: Our software is designed for rigor.
Deep Dive: We drill down into multi-level BOMs—from the final aircraft assembly to the smallest sub-system component.
Compliance: The AI integration ensures traceability standards are met while identifying high-duty import entries.
Result: We turn your most complex BOMs into your highest-value claims, validating eligible substitution opportunities among non-critical, high-cost materials.
The Takeaway
Your BOMs are complex, but your duty drawback process shouldn't be. Whether it is the volume of heavy machinery, the velocity of automotive, or the depth of aerospace, the barrier is just data. And data is what we do best.
Don't let the size of your spreadsheet dictate the size of your refund.
