EU TARIC Customs Measures Lookup & Monitor

Turn the European Commission’s official public TARIC monthly raw-data extraction into structured, country-aware customs-measure lookups.

Enter one or more exact 10-digit TARIC goods codes and partner countries. The Actor returns one JSON item per goods-code × country pair, ready for APIs, scheduled monitoring, compliance research, internal screening, spreadsheets, and downstream automation.

No source API key, account, proxy, customs login, or permission request is required.

What you receive

• Current import and/or export measures at the official snapshot reference date
• Correct inheritance from parent levels in the goods nomenclature
• Correct expansion of origin/destination country groups
• Country exclusions applied before delivery
• Duty or measure text as published by TARIC
• Additional codes and localized descriptions
• Conditions, sequences, document/certificate codes, and localized document descriptions
• Footnote codes and localized descriptions
• Legal basis, Official Journal reference, page, and publication date where available
• Stable lookup IDs and change metadata for scheduled monitoring
• Source month, reference date, attribution, official folder URL, and legal notice

The Actor deliberately does not present a single “final duty” number. TARIC measures can depend on product classification, additional codes, quotas, values, quantities, documents, end use, trade flow, and national taxes. Preserving those conditions is safer and more useful than returning a misleading calculator result.

Quick start

The default input is a complete example:

{
  "goodsCodes": ["8517620000"],
  "partnerCountries": ["CN"],
  "direction": "both",
  "language": "en",
  "snapshotMonth": "latest",
  "enableChangeMonitoring": true,
  "outputMode": "all"
}

Each code must be an exact declarable 10-digit TARIC code in the chosen snapshot. For imports, partnerCountries means origin; for exports, it means destination.

Output example

{
  "goodsCode": "8517620000",
  "cnCode": "85176200",
  "partnerCountry": "CN",
  "goodsDescription": "Machines for the reception, conversion and transmission or regeneration of voice, images or other data, including switching and routing apparatus",
  "importMeasureCount": 2,
  "exportMeasureCount": 3,
  "importMeasures": [
    {
      "goodsCode": "8517620000",
      "inherited": false,
      "partnerAreaCode": "1011",
      "partnerArea": "ERGA OMNES",
      "appliesVia": "erga-omnes",
      "measureTypeCode": "103",
      "measureType": "Third country duty",
      "dutyText": "0.000 %",
      "conditions": [],
      "footnotes": []
    }
  ],
  "sourceSnapshotMonth": "2026-07",
  "sourceSnapshotDate": "2026-07-01",
  "changeType": "new"
}

The live source changes over time, so counts and measures in examples are illustrative.

Monitoring

Keep snapshotMonth set to latest and schedule the same input monthly. The Actor stores compact content hashes in the caller’s Apify key-value storage and marks each lookup as:

• new — first successful observation for this exact scope
• updated — goods description, hierarchy, import measures, or export measures changed
• unchanged — the substantive output is identical

A new source month alone does not create a false update. Use outputMode: "new-updated" for a low-noise change feed.

The Commission’s raw-data extraction represents the database on the first day of the month and is normally made available on the first Commission working day. Scheduling this monthly is more useful than polling it daily.

Pricing

Pay per delivered lookup result. One result is one valid goods-code × partner-country pair, including all matched measures and details for the selected direction.

• Event: taric-lookup
• Planned Store price: $0.015 per delivered lookup ($15 per 1,000)
• No result event is charged for invalid input, source failure, a safety-limit failure, or an item blocked by the buyer’s spending limit
• The Apify default dataset event must remain free to prevent double charging

Official source and lawful use

The source is the European Commission’s public TARIC & Quota Data and Information CIRCABC group. The Actor uses the separately published raw XLSX extractions. It does not automate the TARIC consultation pages that the Commission excludes from automated access in its robots policy.

European Commission content is reused with attribution under the Commission legal notice unless a source item states otherwise. Every output item contains the attribution and legal-notice URL. This is an independent product and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or operated by the European Commission.

Important limitations

• Output reflects the selected official monthly snapshot, not a guaranteed real-time customs decision.
• TARIC does not contain national VAT or excise rates.
• Output is research and monitoring data, not customs, tax, tariff-classification, or legal advice.
• Only the Official Journal is authentic for EU legal acts.
• Confirm a real declaration with the current official TARIC service, relevant legal acts, and the competent customs authority.

Privacy and security

The Actor processes only public institutional TARIC reference data plus the goods codes and country codes supplied in the Actor input.

It does not read or upload local files, browser history, cookies, passwords, API keys, personal data, or private customs accounts. Source hosts, folder IDs, file sizes, total download volume, retries, timeouts, and output size are constrained in code.

Data delivery

• Structured records: default Apify dataset
• Run provenance and delivery totals: RUN_SUMMARY in the default key-value store
• API endpoint: available directly from the Actor run and dataset pages
• Export: JSON, CSV, Excel, XML, RSS, and supported Apify integrations

Support

If an official workbook changes structure, include the run ID and non-sensitive input in the Actor issue report. Do not post customs credentials, declarations, invoices, or personal data.