Unlocking Time-Savings with KYG Trade: The Smart Way To Manage Global Trade Compliance

In today’s fast-paced global trade environment, compliance professionals are under pressure to do more with less — less time, fewer resources, and tighter margins. That’s where KYG Trade steps in. Listed in the 2025 Gartner® Market Guide for Global Trade Management (August 12, 2025), KYG Trade helps tariff and trade professionals save time and streamline global trade compliance.

Developed by experts from the Big 4, a trade attorney, and licensed customers brokers with over 60 years of experience, KYG Trade is a modern, AI-native platform that transforms how teams manage compliance including global import and export classification, Free Trade Agreements, forced labor compliance, post-entry reviews and tariff optimization. Let’s explore the time-saving features that make KYG Trade a game-changer.

Saving Time With KYG Trade

Apart from all their other responsibilities, trade and tariff professionals must deal with the unrelenting pace of regulatory change. Thomson Reuters Tax & Accounting notes that “more than 740,000 updates” hit the global trade rulebook in just the first eight months of 2023 — well before the myriad of changes experienced in 2025.

Here at KYG Trade, our AI-native platform can offer relief. By automating global trade compliance, recordkeeping, audit-readiness and analytics, KYG Trade can give overextended teams the breathing room they need to focus on higher-value strategy. Here’s what you can expect:

AI-Assisted Classification: Hours to Minutes

Reactive AI models can ingest product data, apply the relevant regulations, match it to potential HTS or ECCN codes, and preserve the audit trail in a single chat. Our platform builds on this concept at scale, letting our AI assistant “Kay” classify a single SKU — or an entire catalog — using product descriptions, BOMs, and images – always with a human-in-the-loop.

KYG Trade’s AI-driven classification tools dramatically reduce the time spent on Harmonized Tariff Schedule (HTS) and export classifications. Whether you’re managing one SKU or millions, with built-in support for CROSS rulings, WCO explanatory notes, and GRIs, KYG ensures defensible compliance with minimal manual effort.

Time saved: Up to 75% reduction in classification time.

FTA Qualification Made Fast and Simple

KYG Trade automates Free Trade Agreement (FTA) qualification across 300+ agreements. Its AI tools apply the relevant rules of origin, analyze the BOM content, and content values to determine eligibility, helping teams uncover duty savings opportunities without the usual spreadsheet chaos. Kay also assists with supplier solicitation, checking the accuracy of submissions and automating the end-to-end solicitation process.

Time saved: Instant qualification across multiple FTAs with pre-built rules of origin takes care of otherwise menial manual tasks.

“First Sale for Export” Duty Savings and BOM-Level Optimization

Former Big 4 consultants with years of First Sale experience have expertly designed KYG’s AI-assisted First Sale oracle. KYG helps identify and qualify vendor-factory, multi-tier transactions eligible for duty savings under the First Sale rule. KYG’s First Sale AI assistant analyzes transaction data, cost worksheets, and factory and vendor operating margins to qualify and audit first sale programs.

Time saved: Rapid evaluation of First Sale duty-savings and annual vendor qualification audits reduces hours and cost by 50% or more while maintaining the highest compliance levels.

Export Compliance Tools That Work While You Sleep

From jurisdiction and license determination to restricted party “smart screening” and AES filings, KYG Trade automates the entire export compliance workflow. Our AI assistant can adhere to the Order of Review, detect discrepancies, disposition screening hits, manage licenses, and generate export documentation with speed and precision.

Time saved: Streamlined export processes reduce review and filing time dramatically. Time to disposition false positives can be reduced up to 90%.

SKU-Level Forced Labor Compliance with Generative AI

KYG’s product and component origin tracing, inducing its UFLPA compliance tools, uses generative AI to trace SKU-level supplier data and develop a robust but highly-specific, supplier risk analysis. The platform can create a precise audit trail from finished goods to the source of raw materials from thousands of source documents, helping teams respond to detention notices well within CBP’s 30-day deadline — accurately and confidently.

Time saved: Automated due diligence and response generation ensure timely and precise action.

Automated Monitoring of Regulatory Changes

With new sanctions, export controls, and tariff updates coming every week, staying current manually borders on the impossible. KYG Trade enables you to stay ahead of shifting regulations with automated alerts and rule updates. 

The platform tracks tariff updates, sanctions, and origin requirements, ensuring your team is always informed and audit-ready. Our automated alerts and rule updates can help you make sure your classifications, licenses, and origin rules reflect the latest requirements as they change.

Time saved: No more manual tracking of regulatory updates.

Seamless Integration with ERP, PLM, and GTM Systems

With JSON APIs and pre-built connectors, KYG integrates easily with existing enterprise systems. Whether replacing SAP GTS or extending its capabilities, KYG delivers faster implementation and lower IT lift.

Time saved: Minimal training and configuration required, getting everyone up to speed quickly.

KYG Trade in Action: Real-World Impact

Customers who deploy our solution report up to 80% productivity gains while improving levels of compliance, underscoring how automation frees teams from manual data entry, maintaining unwieldy spreadsheets, monitoring regulatory changes, and record keeping tasks.

A U.S. apparel brand’s senior supply-planning leader shares, “Our AI-assisted FTA qualification tool alone has saved us millions in tariffs. The platform’s ability to analyze product content and BOM data against complex rules of origin is remarkable.”

Another client in the manufacturing sector highlights the forced-labor advantage: “With KYG Trade, we cut our forced labor detention response time from six weeks to just one. Plus, our AI assistant Kay can generate a 20-page supply chain traceability report with 1,000+ source documents in only 12 minutes.”

KYG Trade as a Strategic Partner

Automation alone can’t replace the strategic judgment of experienced trade professionals, yet it can give you the bandwidth to apply that judgment where it matters most. By unifying classification, FTA qualification, export management, first sale, supply chain ESG due diligence, and analytics on a single AI-native platform, KYG Trade removes the manual friction that slows teams down. Manufacturers are already embracing predictive compliance capabilities to surface both landed tariff cost savings and risks before they escalate — our platform extends that proactive model across every corner of global trade.

KYG Trade isn’t just a tool — it’s a strategic partner for compliance teams looking to save time, reduce costs, and stay ahead of global trade complexities. With AI at its core and trade compliance expertise in its DNA, KYG empowers professionals to focus on what matters most: making smart, compliant decisions faster. With real-time alerts, audit-ready documentation, and embedded expertise from licensed customs brokers and former Big Four practitioners, our platform positions your organization to keep pace with an ever-changing regulatory landscape while simultaneously optimizing duty spend. We don’t just save time; we elevate compliance from a cost center to a competitive advantage.

Ready to see it in action? Request a demo and discover how KYG Trade can transform your compliance operations.

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