The Trade Manifest is an independent, vendor-neutral desk covering the vocabulary and paperwork of international trade. It exists because most border surprises are not about tariffs alone — they are about a misunderstood clause, a wrong code, or a document nobody kept.
Every term on the wall is filed the same six ways: the term, where risk transfers, who bears the cost, which transport modes it covers, who insures, and which documents carry the obligation. That shared schema lets you compare an ocean rule, an inland handover, and a multimodal arrangement on the same terms instead of taking a broker's summary at face value.
Our editors lean on long-standing trade conventions such as the Incoterms 2020 rules and the Harmonized System of tariff classification, and we frame everything as general education. We do not name or rank specific carriers, forwarders, or software vendors, and we make no promises about any particular customs or duty outcome.