You already know imports got expensive. We tell you exactly where, by part, with the math attached.
If you buy stamped, machined, cast, or fabricated parts from overseas, some of your lines are now paying full-value tariffs and some are riding relief that expires on a published date. We find those lines in your import file and bring you a domestic quote you did not have to hunt for.
What it costs you
Nothing. The shop that wins the work pays our placement fee, and those terms are published on the shops page because everyone in a deal should know how everyone gets paid. You get the analysis, the quote, and a second source. If the domestic number does not beat your landed cost, you keep our math as a free audit of your exposure.
Honest signpost: free help exists, and we are not it
Your regional Manufacturing Extension Partnership runs supplier scouting at no cost, and the Reshoring Initiative publishes the Total Cost of Ownership Estimator free. Both are good. Use them. We sit downstream of that world: when you want someone to read your specific lanes, carry the math to a capability-checked shop, and stay on the deal until parts actually move, that is the desk. Contact information is free everywhere. Closed deals are what we charge for, and not to you.
Two ways in, one of them free
The free part verdict
Send one print, or even just a part description and where it ships from. Within 48 hours you get a straight answer: can this come home, roughly what is the switch worth, and what would have to be true. No fee, no meeting required, no follow-up you did not ask for.
The Import Exposure Audit
The full-file version: every lane you import, the duty math with its expiry dates, which parts convert to domestic production and which never will, ranked by dollars. This one is paid consulting, priced before we start, and it is worth having even if you never place a part through us. Fair warning on our incentive, stated plainly: the shop pays us if you proceed with a placement. The audit fee exists so our answer can afford to be no.
What you get
- A per-part brief: current duty treatment by tariff line, what changes and when, freight and lead-time reality, and the honest read on whether domestic pencils.
- A quote from a shop we capability-checked against the actual part before anyone called you.
- A second source that shortens your supply line. You decide what it earns.
Start the conversation
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