Senior Trade Analyst, Tariff Classification & Free Trade Agreements

GE Appliances, a Haier company•Louisville, KY

9d•Hybrid

About The Position

Serve as a key technical contributor for tariff classification and preferential trade program qualification across imported and exported home appliance products, components, and service parts. The role will work in close partnership with the company's current service providers who support these processes, supporting the continued development and maintenance of classification procedures, documentation standards, precedent files, and FTA (Free Trade Agreement) qualification processes while ensuring continuity and quality across the combined team.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and experience.
Five or more years of hands-on HTSUS classification experience in a manufacturing, retail, or customs brokerage environment.
Demonstrated FTA qualification experience, USMCA strongly preferred, including BOM-level regional value content and tariff shift analysis.
Working knowledge of ACE, CBP rulings research, and entry documentation.
Ability to read and interpret engineering drawings, bills of material, and technical specifications.
Ability to collaborate effectively with external service providers and cross-functional internal teams.

Nice To Haves

Licensed Customs Broker (LCB) and/or Certified Customs Specialist (CCS).
Home appliance, consumer durables, or electro-mechanical product experience.
Section 232 steel and aluminum derivative experience.
Global Trade Management system experience (Oracle GTM, SAP GTS, Descartes, e2open).
Classification experience in additional jurisdictions, particularly Mexico, Canada, or the European Union.

Responsibilities

Determine, review, and document HTSUS, Schedule B, and ECCN classifications for finished appliances subassemblies, components, and service parts, in coordination with the company's supporting service providers.
Build and maintain the internal classification database of records, including part-level attributes, GRI rationale, and supporting technical documentation.
Apply the General Rules of Interpretation, Section and Chapter Notes, Explanatory Notes, CBP rulings (CROSS), and court decisions to complex determinations, particularly composite goods, sets, and parts-versus-articles analysis.
Assess Section 232, Section 301, and other special trade program applicability, including derivative steel and aluminum content and country-of-melt/smelt-and-pour requirements.
Prepare binding ruling requests and classification analyses supporting prior disclosures.
Support the development and continuous improvement of classification SOPs, review cadence, and NPI processes in partnership with Engineering, Sourcing, and Product Management.
Review work performed by supporting service providers for accuracy and consistency and escalate complex issues as needed.
Qualify products under USMCA and other applicable agreements using tariff shift, regional value content, and de minimis analysis.
Manage supplier solicitation, certification collection, validity tracking, and annual recertification.
Perform bill-of-material level origin analysis and maintain audit-ready qualification files.
Issue certifications of origin to customers and respond to customer and CBP origin verifications.
Evaluate qualification opportunities for duty savings and support duty engineering analysis.
Coordinate with supporting service providers to align processes, documentation standards, and data quality.
Support classification aspects of post-entry activity, including protests, Post Summary Corrections, reconciliation, and CF-28 responses.
Train internal stakeholders and maintain reasonable care documentation.
Support internal audit and periodic testing of classification accuracy.