Trade compliance and landed cost · import and export

Dr. Alpha

Answers for import and export businesses from H-α's reference files: the documents and rules on a lane, duty and import VAT, sanctions, what a named buyer requires of a supplier, and the landed cost on your own price. Every answer names its source and the date it was checked. Where the record is silent, he says so.

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01 · Scope

What Dr. Alpha answers

Each item is answered from a file H-α maintains, never from a search of the internet or a language model's general knowledge.

Documents and rules on a laneExport and import documents, the authorities on each side, and the sanctions programmes with commodity measures.

Can I sell Russian coal to the EU?

Duty and import VAT by HS codeMFN duty and import VAT at a destination, with the band each rate comes from; several destinations as a chart.

Chart the urea import duty into India, China and Brazil

Landed cost on your priceYour CIF price, plus duty, plus import VAT on CIF and duty, per tonne. What is not included is listed.

Landed cost of urea into India at $400 per tonne CIF

A named buyer's supplier rulesAdmission categories and requirements, each with the basis it was read from and a link to the page.

What does Angang require from a new supplier?

Company name screeningA company name against the OFAC SDN, UN and EU consolidated lists, with each list's date. No match is not a clearance.

Screen Rosneft Trading SA against the sanctions lists

Sanctions programmes by countryThe OFAC, EU, UK and UN programmes that name a country, and what each restricts.

Is Iran under sanctions?

Trade termsIncoterms 2020 and payment instruments, with a diagram of who arranges and pays each stage and where risk passes.

What is the difference between CFR and CIF?

Charts and diagramsLane drawings, duty charts, landed-cost build-ups and requirement charts, drawn from the answer's own records.

Every answer above carries one

02 · Examples

Example answers

Answers as Dr. Alpha gave them to a seat on 12 October 2026, with the figure each carries.

03 · Sources

Where an answer comes from

Country rules on file: declaration systems, authorities, required and conditional documents, each side of a lane.
The customs engine: HS codes, MFN duty, import VAT, trade-agreement preferences, with a LIVE (current tariff schedule) or SEED (country baseline) band on every rate.
The sanctions reference: the OFAC, EU, UK and UN programme pages, each with the date it was checked; the OFAC SDN, UN and EU consolidated lists for name screening.
Counterparty rule sets: what a named buyer or seller requires, read from its own published notice or rule, or marked as a comparable form or precedent where it is not its own.
ICC Incoterms 2020 (Publication 723E) for the allocation of costs and risk.

Dr. Alpha does not search the internet, does not answer from a model's general knowledge, and does not fill a missing record with a guess.

04 · Not in a seat

What a seat does not include

Counterparty records, market prices, freight figures and deals are part of an H-α commodity subscription, not a Dr. Alpha seat. A seat that asks for them is told so and pointed to the commodities offered by subscription.

05 · Price

Price

Prices in US dollars.