Trade Audit

A trade audit is a line-by-line review of every customs entry your company has filed to find duty overpayments, misclassifications, and refund opportunities you've missed. The process traditionally required a customs attorney, weeks of manual work, and access to data scattered across brokers, ERPs, and CBP systems. Caspian's Trade Audit ingests all of it automatically and surfaces every recoverable dollar in your customs history.

Your customs broker files entries. Caspian audits them. Those are different jobs. Brokers are paid to clear shipments through customs as fast as possible, they're not paid to go back and check whether you overpaid, and most don't. Caspian's Trade Audit looks at every entry your broker has ever filed and flags the ones that left money on the table.

Three things, mostly: duties you overpaid because of HTS misclassification, valuation errors that inflated your duty owed, and refund eligibility you never claimed (drawback, PSCs, protest opportunities). The audit also flags liquidation deadlines you're about to miss once an entry liquidates without correction, the money is gone. Most clients recover more in month one than they spend on Caspian in a year.

Five years for drawback eligibility, 314 days for PSCs, 180 days post-liquidation for protests. Trade Audit scans your full customs history and maps every entry to the recovery mechanism that still applies. Entries past their statutory window get flagged so you know what was missed and why. Useful context, even when the money's gone.

Whatever you have. Caspian connects to 80+ systems, including ERPs, customs brokers, freight forwarders, and inventory platforms, and pulls the data automatically. No reformatting, no CSV exports, no IT tickets. The point of Trade Audit is to remove the data-gathering step that kills most recovery projects before they start.

Caspian's audit runs continuously the moment your data is connected, so recovery opportunities surface as your data flows in. Traditional trade audits work the opposite way. A consultant pulls your entries, reconciles them against your ERP by hand, and writes a memo at the end. Caspian replaces the project-based model with a live one.

Yes. Trade Audit is the entry point to the platform: you connect your data, we run the analysis, you see what you're owed. No retainer, no commitment, no sales call required to get the number. If there's nothing to recover, you've lost nothing. If there is, you decide what to do next.

You decide which recovery path to take, and Caspian executes it. Misclassifications and valuation errors get corrected through Post-Summary Corrections. Adverse liquidation decisions get challenged through Protests. Duties paid on goods later exported get recovered through Duty Drawback. Trade Audit is the diagnostic. The filing mechanisms are built in. Same platform, same licensed brokers, no handoff.