Jithox EU Import Preflight

Check an EORI number, find candidate EU customs classifications for a product description, and estimate low-value landed cost before an agent commits to an EU import.

For: Developers building cross-border commerce, logistics, procurement and marketplace agents.

Read-only preflight evidence over MCP. Technical evidence only — not a legal, fiscal or compliance determination, and not legal advice.

What it does

• Validates EORI structure, and existence via the EU EOS system operated by the European Commission when that provider is enabled.
• Returns CANDIDATE TARIC/CN classifications from a dated snapshot, with the evidence used for each.
• Lists EU-level import measures for a candidate code and origin.
• Estimates landed cost for consignments of intrinsic value up to EUR 150 on the regime valid at a given date.

What it does NOT do

• Does not file a customs declaration.
• Does not pay duty or clear goods.
• Does not give a binding tariff classification — every classification is a candidate.
• Does not include national VAT or excise, which TARIC does not carry.

Tools (5)

Exactly 5 read-only tools. There is no send, pay, file, block or declare capability on this server.

• validate_eori — Validate an EORI number
  Structural check of an EORI number and, when the EU EOS provider is configured, an authoritative existence check.
• search_taric_codes — Search candidate TARIC classifications
  From a plain-language product description, return CANDIDATE TARIC/CN codes from a dated TARIC snapshot, ranked with the evidence used.
• check_eu_import_measures — Check EU import measures for a classification
  For a candidate TARIC code + origin, list EU-level import measures from a dated snapshot: third-country duty, tariff preferences, prohibitions/restrictions, surveillance.
• estimate_low_value_import_cost — Estimate low-value import cost
  Estimate the landed cost for a low-value consignment (intrinsic value ≤ EUR 150) to an EU state on a given date: EUR 150 duty relief until 2026-06-30, then the temporary EUR 3-per-item duty from 2026-07-01, plus destination import VAT.
• prepare_import_preflight_receipt — Prepare an import-preflight receipt
  Bundle the preflight checks (EORI, candidate classification, measures, cost) into one idempotent Ed25519-signed receipt committing to the inputs, sources, retrieval times and validity dates — provable evidence of WHAT was checked and WHEN.

Connect

MCP endpoint (Streamable HTTP): https://import.mcp.jithox.com/mcp

Server identity: com.jithox/eu-import-preflight v0.4.0

Authentication

OAuth 2.1 with mandatory PKCE (S256) and dynamic client registration is the default. An unauthenticated call returns 401 with a WWW-Authenticate header pointing at /.well-known/oauth-protected-resource, which points at the authorization server metadata. Your MCP client performs that discovery automatically.

Clients that cannot open a browser (blocked loopback callback, CI, headless) may instead send the developer access key directly on every call — Authorization: Bearer pcd_… or X-Jithox-Api-Key in the client config. Same key, same scopes, same rotation/revocation and expiry; treat a key in a config file like a password.

Tokens are audience-bound to this server with least-privilege per-tool scopes: a token issued for another Jithox server is rejected here, and a key minted for another Jithox server fails this server's scope check.

Data

Source: An operator-activated snapshot of the official EU TARIC data published by the European Commission, plus the official EU EOS EORI service when enabled.

Freshness: Every answer carries the snapshot source, publication date and checksum. Without a snapshot the classification tools return unavailable rather than inventing a commodity code.

Example flow

1. Your agent has a plain-language product description and an origin country.
2. search_taric_codes returns ranked candidate classifications with the evidence behind each.
3. check_eu_import_measures lists the EU measures that apply to a chosen candidate.
4. estimate_low_value_import_cost gives a landed-cost estimate for the applicable regime and date.
5. prepare_import_preflight_receipt commits the inputs, sources and validity to a signed receipt.

Get started

Self-service: create a free credential, use the free trial calls, then add prepaid credit and keep going. No application, no approval, no sales contact — and the same balance works across every available Jithox MCP server.

Start at https://jithox.com (sign-up: https://jithox.com/sign-up). You pay per ACCEPTED call: a failure, a refusal, a rate limit or an unavailable source costs nothing. The current per-accepted-call price of THIS product is machine-readable at https://jithox.com/api/pricing/v1 (per_product), offer status at https://jithox.com/api/capabilities/v1.

Health is public and needs no access: /healthz and /readyz.

Support and security

Support: info.jithox@gmail.com. Security reports: see /.well-known/security.txt — please report privately and do not run load tests against production.

No independent third-party penetration test has been performed on this server.