How to Start Mass Tariff Classification
Mass tariff classification is a powerful feature that allows you to classify large sets of products efficiently. This guide will walk you through the steps to get started with mass tariff classification.
Step 1️⃣: Prepare Your Data
Before you can start classifying products, you need to prepare your data as an Excel (.xlsx) file. The header row (row 1) is always ignored. Use Download Example File in the upload dialog to get a ready-to-use template.
| Column | Field | Required | Accepted values |
|---|---|---|---|
| A | Product description | yes | free text |
| B | Reference ID | optional | free text — used to match your own records, and to match attachments (see Step 3) |
| C | Search web (true/false) | optional | true/false, yes/no, ja/nein, 1/0, on/off (case-insensitive); anything else or empty is treated as false |
| D | Direction | optional | export/import, ex/im, exportieren/importieren (case-insensitive); empty or unrecognized values default to export |
| E | URL | optional | one URL per row, fetched during tariffing |
Rows with an empty description column are skipped. The number of rows you can import is limited by your tenant's remaining customs tariff proposal quota, not by a fixed row or file size limit — if the quota is exhausted, the import fails.
Step 2️⃣: Upload Your Data and Start Classification
Navigate to Mass in the Customs Tariff menu group — Zolltarifierung > Masse in the German UI — and click New Job. Select your Excel file, then click Check Excel to preview the parsed rows (the preview shows up to the first 100 rows). Next, select the Tariff System the whole file should be classified against — EU/DE or CH — this is required and applies to every row in the file; there is no more separate LLM/model selection. Finally, click Import Excel to start the classification process.
Step 3️⃣: Attach Files, Review and Download Results
TariffPilot now starts the classification process. On the job detail page you can see, per row, the classified product, its tariff code, and which tariff system (DE/EU or CH) it was classified against.
If you have supporting documents (PDFs or images) for individual products, you can upload them on the job detail page after the import — upload one file at a time, and TariffPilot matches it to the right row by comparing the filename against the reference_id column from your Excel file.
Once classification is complete, you can review the results directly in the platform and download them in PDF format for further analysis or record-keeping.