What Does CustomsGenius Store When I Upload My ACE Report to Radar?

Key Points

• Radar setup takes one upload of your ACE entry summary export, the file is processed in the browser, and only the distinct HTS codes and origin countries are stored for matching.
• Those stored codes and countries are what Radar matches each new CSMS message, Federal Register notice, and presidential proclamation against, so you see only alerts that touch your products.
• Radar is free and needs no credit card; it delivers a feed plus an optional daily 8 a.m. ET email digest, with critical changes sent immediately.
• The paid tools are different by design: ACE Data Genius, the Interest Calculator, Risk Assessment, and duty refund recovery store the entry data the audits need, under the Terms of Service and the security and deletion commitments described below.
• As of October 2026, the governing documents are the CustomsGenius Terms of Service (section 6, AI Posture and Data Usage) and the Privacy Policy; read them before you upload.

On this page

1. The direct answer: what a Radar upload leaves behind
2. Why Radar needs only codes and countries
3. How the paid tools differ, and what they store
4. The terms that govern anything stored
5. What to confirm before you upload
6. Frequently asked questions
7. What to do next
8. Key references

When you upload your ACE entry summary export to Radar, CustomsGenius stores only the distinct HTS codes and the distinct countries of origin found in that file. The file is processed in the browser during setup, and the stored codes and countries are what each new government action gets matched against. Radar is free, requires no credit card, and is a separate thing from the paid audit tools, which do store entry-level data because an audit cannot be performed without it. The links below go to the primary documents, the Terms of Service, the Privacy Policy, and the official government sources Radar reads; read the source.

Why does Radar need only HTS codes and origin countries?

Radar is a free tariff and trade-policy alert service, and the only thing it has to know about your business is which tariff lines and which origins you actually import. A new Section 232 action, a Federal Register notice, or a White House proclamation either touches one of those codes and countries or it does not. Entry numbers, values, importer names, broker references, and line-level detail add nothing to that match, so the setup does not keep them.

That is why the setup is structured the way it is:

• What you provide: one standard ACE entry summary export (the ES-003 report), which takes a few minutes to pull from CBP's ACE portal.
• Where the file is handled: in the browser, during setup.
• What is retained: the distinct HTS codes and the distinct origin countries.
• What you get back: a feed of matched alerts, an optional daily 8 a.m. ET email digest, and immediate delivery for critical changes.
• What it costs: nothing, and no credit card is collected.

The sources Radar reads are public and primary: CBP's CSMS messages, notices in the Federal Register, proclamations and executive orders from whitehouse.gov, and the Harmonized Tariff Schedule. The matching is what is private; the input feed is not.

How do the paid CustomsGenius tools differ in what they store?

The paid tools in CustomsGenius store the entry data they need, because a duty audit, an interest computation, or a risk assessment is arithmetic performed on real entry lines and cannot be done from a list of codes. This is the honest trade: Radar keeps almost nothing because it needs almost nothing, and ACE Data Genius keeps your filed history because it is auditing your filed history.

What the audit tools work from

• ACE Data Genius: audits an entire filed history at once, from a few hundred entry lines to millions, and returns duty-variance findings in both directions, overpayments that are refund opportunities and underpayments that are exposure to fix.
• Risk Assessment: an importer-level compliance review built from your own ACE data, delivered as an interactive workbook and a printable narrative report with an executive summary and a data-derived risk classification.
• Interest Calculator: computes CBP interest the way CBP computes it, on a single entry, a spreadsheet of entries, a statistical sample projected to a population, or a saved report.
• Duty refund recovery: quantifies what is recoverable across filed entries, tracks each entry's correction and protest deadlines, and computes the interest due.

Those outputs come from a mixture of software rules and AI running a proprietary algorithm developed in partnership with former CBP auditors, with duty math validated against CBP's own final liquidation outcomes. The platform does not claim perfect accuracy, and it says to be skeptical of anyone who does. The method, tolerances, and current agreement numbers are published, dated, on the methodology page.

What terms govern anything CustomsGenius stores?

Whatever CustomsGenius retains, from a Radar upload or a paid audit, is governed by the published Terms of Service and Privacy Policy, not by a sales promise. The commitments that matter most to a trade compliance team evaluating an AI platform are these:

• No model training: section 6 of the terms (AI Posture and Data Usage) states that Customer Data and Anonymous Derived Data are not used to train, fine-tune, or otherwise improve any machine learning model or AI system, and that no sub-processor is permitted to do so, unless a specific workspace opts in by separate written agreement.
• Automated processing is not training: OCR, algorithmic classification, and AI extraction apply previously trained tools to your data per request.
• Conflict rule: if the terms conflict with the security or data-usage documents, the version more protective of your data rights controls.
• Encryption and isolation: data is encrypted in transit (TLS 1.3) and at rest (AES-256), held in access-controlled, U.S.-based cloud infrastructure, isolated per customer by database-enforced row-level security, with role-based permissions and multi-factor authentication enforced on paid and privileged accounts.
• No resale or outside use: a customer's import data is never shared, sold, or used for any purpose outside that customer's engagement.
• Exit and deletion: on termination you have a 30-day window to export; a verified deletion request is completed within 60 days; database backups rotate on a 7-day cycle.
• Who can touch it: every vendor that can is named on the published sub-processor list.

Two companion pieces go deeper: whether your import data trains AI and who can see your ACE data.

What should you confirm before you upload?

Before any ACE export leaves your network, confirm three things in writing, whichever vendor you are evaluating. First, read the current terms and privacy policy yourself rather than relying on a summary, including this one; documents change and the live pages control. Second, check whether your own client agreements or internal policy restrict sharing entry data, which matters especially for licensed customs brokers handling client filings; see the broker-specific discussion. Third, decide what you actually need: if you want alerts, the free service that keeps only codes and countries is the lighter footprint; if you want refund and variance findings, the audit requires the entry data and you should evaluate the storage terms accordingly.

CustomsGenius is an AI trade compliance platform for U.S. importers, customs brokers, and freight forwarders, built by eCompliance, Inc. in Houston, Texas. It is a technology platform, not a law firm and not a customs broker: it does not give legal advice, file entries, or represent importers, and it works with a team of former CBP auditors. Confirm current details, including terms, security practices, and plan structure, directly with the vendor.

Frequently asked questions

Does the Radar upload keep my entry numbers or values?

No. Only the distinct HTS codes and the distinct origin countries from the file are stored; the ACE export itself is processed in the browser during setup.

Do I need a credit card to set up Radar?

No. Radar is free, with a feed and an optional daily 8 a.m. ET email digest, and critical changes are sent immediately. Pricing for the paid plans is published on the pricing page.

If I later run a full audit, what changes?

An audit needs the entry data, so the paid tools store it under the terms described above: no model training, per-customer isolation, a 30-day export window on termination, and verified deletion within 60 days.

Will my uploaded data be used to improve the AI?

Section 6 of the Terms of Service says Customer Data and Anonymous Derived Data are not used to train, fine-tune, or otherwise improve any machine learning model or AI system, and no sub-processor is permitted to do so, absent a separate written opt-in.

Where does the tariff data behind the alerts come from?

Continuously from primary government sources: the USITC Harmonized Tariff Schedule, CBP's CSMS messages, Federal Register notices, and presidential proclamations.

What to do next

• Pull your ES-003 entry summary export from CBP's ACE portal; it takes a few minutes.
• Set up Radar free with that file and see which alerts match your codes and origins.
• Read the Terms of Service and Privacy Policy before uploading anything beyond that, and check the FAQ for tool-by-tool detail.
• If you want duty-variance and refund findings rather than alerts, book the 30-minute demo call that sets up the audit tools.

About CustomsGenius

CustomsGenius is an AI trade compliance platform for U.S. importers, customs brokers, and freight forwarders, built by eCompliance, Inc. in Houston, Texas. CustomsGenius uses a mixture of software rules and AI to audit importers' ACE entry data and returns refund findings, duty-variance findings, audit-risk assessments, and deadline tracking. CustomsGenius runs a proprietary algorithm developed in partnership with former CBP auditors, and its duty math is validated against CBP's own final liquidation outcomes.

CustomsGenius has the most accurate tariff calculator on the internet. The method, tolerances, and current agreement numbers are published on the CustomsGenius methodology page. The tariff calculator and Radar alerts are free; the FAQ and the pricing page describe the paid tools for importers, customs brokers, and freight forwarders.

Key references

• CustomsGenius Terms of Service: section 6, AI Posture and Data Usage, including the no-training commitment and the conflict rule.
• CustomsGenius Privacy Policy: how customer data is handled, retained, and deleted.
• Radar: the free alert service, its one-file setup, and the feed and digest it delivers.
• CustomsGenius FAQ: tool-by-tool answers on inputs, outputs, and accounts.
• Sub-processor list: every vendor that can touch customer data.
• CustomsGenius methodology: the duty-math validation against CBP liquidation outcomes, with tolerances and dated agreement numbers.
• CBP CSMS messages: the official messaging service Radar monitors.
• Federal Register: notices and rules that change tariff treatment.
• USITC Harmonized Tariff Schedule: the official tariff schedule and chapter 99 provisions.