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Senior Canadian Customs Classification & Trade Compliance Consultant CustomsLogIQ Inc.
Remote – Canada
Contract / Part-Time
$50–$100 CAD per hour, based on experience
Initial Engagement: Approximately 4 Weeks
Potential for Ongoing Advisory Work

About CustomsLogIQCustomsLogIQ is an AI-powered trade compliance platform designed for importers, manufacturers, trade compliance teams and customs professionals.Our platform helps users research and document customs decisions, including Canadian tariff classification, GIR-based classification reasoning, regulatory requirements, government agency considerations and audit-ready compliance documentation.As we continue developing and validating the Canadian platform, we are looking for an experienced Canadian customs and trade compliance professional to independently test, challenge and help improve our classification and compliance capabilities.

This is not a customs entry processing or release position.

The engagement is focused on tariff classification, customs compliance, regulatory analysis and independent evaluation of our technology.

The Role:

We are seeking a highly experienced Canadian customs classification and trade compliance professional with significant hands-on experience working with the Canadian Customs Tariff and importer compliance requirements.The ideal candidate understands classification from both perspectives:

• the customs brokerage/advisory side; and
• the importer, manufacturer or corporate trade compliance side.

You will independently stress-test CustomsLogIQ using realistic and challenging product scenarios and provide professional feedback regarding the platform's classifications, reasoning, legal authorities, clarification questions and compliance outputs.We are particularly interested in someone who can recognize when a tariff classification may appear reasonable but the underlying analysis is incomplete, unsupported, based on insufficient product information or inconsistent with how an experienced customs professional would approach the decision.

Key Responsibilities:

The consultant will:

• Independently review and assess Canadian tariff classifications generated by CustomsLogIQ.
• Develop and/or evaluate realistic and challenging product-classification scenarios.
• Review straightforward, ambiguous, multifunction, component, part/accessory and technically complex products.
• Determine whether the platform has reached an appropriate Canadian tariff classification based on the available product information.
• Evaluate the platform's application of the General Interpretative Rules (GIRs).
• Review applicable Section Notes, Chapter Notes and tariff provisions.
• Assess the quality and relevance of CBSA advance rulings and other supporting regulatory materials referenced by the platform.
• Determine whether sufficient product information exists to support a classification decision.
• Identify situations where additional technical information should be requested from the importer, manufacturer or supplier.
• Review whether CustomsLogIQ is asking the appropriate clarification questions before reaching a conclusion.
• Identify incorrect classifications, weak reasoning, unsupported assumptions, missing information and potential compliance risks.
• Document the classification the consultant believes is appropriate and the regulatory reasoning supporting that conclusion.
• Evaluate CustomsLogIQ's outputs from the perspective of an importer or corporate trade compliance department.
• Assess whether the platform's documentation would provide an appropriate internal audit trail supporting a classification decision.
• Provide practical recommendations for improving classification logic, regulatory research, reports and user workflows.
• Categorize findings based on severity, compliance risk and business impact.
• Participate in review discussions with CustomsLogIQ's founders and technical team.
• Explain significant findings directly to the development team where appropriate.
• Retest selected scenarios after improvements are implemented.
• Provide a final summary identifying recurring issues, higher-risk areas and recommended priorities for continued platform development.

What We Are Looking For:

The strongest candidates will have substantial practical experience in Canadian tariff classification and importer trade compliance.

Required / Strongly Preferred Experience

• 10+ years of Canadian customs, import compliance, tariff classification or international trade experience.
• Significant hands-on experience performing Canadian tariff classification at the 10-digit level.
• Strong working knowledge of the Canadian Customs Tariff.
• Extensive experience applying the General Interpretative Rules.
• Strong understanding of Section Notes and Chapter Notes.
• Experience researching and interpreting CBSA advance rulings and customs policy.
• Ability to independently research, explain and defend difficult tariff classification decisions.
• Strong understanding of the information importers need to obtain from suppliers and manufacturers before determining classification.
• Experience documenting classification decisions for audit, compliance or internal governance purposes.
• Excellent written communication skills.
• Ability to clearly explain why a classification is correct, incorrect or requires additional information.

Highly Desirable Qualifications:

Preference will be given to candidates with one or more of the following:

• CCS – Certified Customs Specialist designation
• CTCS – Certified Trade Compliance Specialist designation
• Successful completion of the Canadian customs broker professional examination or equivalent senior customs brokerage experience
• Current or former customs brokerage Qualified Officer experience
• Senior customs brokerage experience
• Trade compliance consulting experience
• Experience working directly for an importer or manufacturer
• Experience in a corporate customs or global trade compliance department
• Experience as a Customs Compliance Manager, Trade Compliance Manager, Import Compliance Manager, Director of Trade Compliance or similar position
• Experience managing classification databases or product master data
• Experience developing corporate classification procedures and controls
• Experience supporting CBSA verifications, audits or compliance reviews
• Experience with customs valuation
• Country-of-origin analysis
• CUSMA and other Canadian free trade agreements
• SIMA
• Special Import Measures Act considerations
• Partner Government Agency requirements
• Canadian surtaxes and special tariff measures
• Complex technical or industrial commodities
• Experience evaluating customs or global trade management technology

Importer-Side Experience Is Important:

We are particularly interested in candidates who understand the responsibilities of an importer of record.

The successful candidate should understand that tariff classification is not simply about identifying a tariff number. A strong compliance decision may require understanding:

• What information should be obtained from the supplier?
• Is the commercial description sufficient?
• What is the product made from?
• What is its principal function?
• How is the product used?
• Is it a complete article, unfinished article, part or accessory?
• Are multiple headings potentially applicable?
• Does a Section or Chapter Note determine the outcome?
• Is additional technical documentation required?
• Should the classification process stop until additional information is obtained?
• Can the importer reasonably defend the decision during a CBSA review?

This type of professional judgment is central to the position.

What We Are Not Looking For:

This is not primarily an entry-writing position. We are not looking for someone whose experience is limited to processing customs entries using classifications supplied by clients. We are looking for someone who has personally performed significant tariff classification research and can independently determine and defend classifications for difficult products. The ability to explain the reasoning behind a classification is more important than simply processing large volumes of customs transactions.

Initial ProjectThe initial consulting engagement is expected to run for approximately four weeks. We anticipate approximately detailed product classification scenarios, together with selected retesting and advisory discussions. The scenarios will include a combination of straightforward and difficult classifications designed to test the platform's ability to reason through real-world customs situations. For each assigned scenario, the consultant may be asked to provide:

• Recommended 10-digit Canadian tariff classification
• Classification rationale
• Applicable GIR(s)
• Relevant Section Notes
• Relevant Chapter Notes
• Relevant CBSA rulings or regulatory authorities
• Identification of missing product information
• Recommended clarification questions
• Assessment of CustomsLogIQ's proposed classification
• Assessment of CustomsLogIQ's reasoning
• Identification of compliance concerns
• Severity of any identified issue
• Recommended platform improvement

The objective is not simply to determine whether the final tariff number is correct. We want to understand whether the process and reasoning used to reach that result would withstand professional scrutiny.

Working With Our Development Team:

The consultant will have the opportunity to work directly with CustomsLogIQ's founders and technical team. Where significant issues are identified, we may ask the consultant to explain:

• why the issue occurred;
• what information should have been considered;
• what an experienced customs professional would have done differently;
• what the system should have asked the user;
• how the reasoning could be improved; and
• whether subsequent software changes have corrected the issue.

Candidates should therefore be comfortable communicating customs concepts to both trade-compliance professionals and technical/software teams.

Pay: $50.00-$100.00 per hour

Expected hours: 8.0 – 12.0 per week

Application question(s):

• Have you worked directly for an importer, manufacturer or corporate trade compliance department? Please briefly describe your experience
• Have you supported CBSA verifications, audits or other compliance reviews?
• Are you comfortable evaluating AI-generated tariff classifications and identifying weaknesses in both the final classification and the reasoning used to reach it?
• What is your hourly consulting rate?

Experience:

• hands-on Canadian tariff classification : 5 years (required)
• customs or corporate trade compliance : 5 years (preferred)
• SIMA, CUSMA/FTA requirements, customs valuation: 5 years (required)

Licence/Certification:

• CCS or CTCS designation (required)

Work Location: Remote