Tariff Playbook Suite: Build a Ready-to-Act Tariff Response Plan in Under 60 Minutes

Follow a repeatable five-step sequence: assess exposure, model scenario outcomes, prep leadership talking points, plan mitigation by urgency, and document every decision.

Reactive teams lose time re-deciding the same triage questions every time a rate changes, because nothing was standardized the first time around. Locking the sequence in advance means whoever is on shift that week runs it the same way, with the same math and the same escalation path, instead of improvising. That consistency is what turns a chaotic 72 hours into a plan leadership can actually follow and audit later.

See the two tools that run this sequence in the Tariff Playbook Suite™ →

A tariff percentage compounds into landed cost through per-unit duty on top of freight and handling, not just the headline rate on the HS code.

Most teams stop at the sticker rate and miss the per-unit cost impact once duty stacks on existing freight and handling, which is exactly where the budget variance shows up later. Paste product and supplier data into a Data Input tab that auto-calculates per-unit cost, total landed cost, and risk exposure, with color-coded flags by HS code, country, and supplier. That turns a rate change into a specific dollar figure you can defend in a meeting, not a rough guess.

The Tariff Cost Impact Calculator and the new Executive Interactive Command Center dashboard both run this math automatically.

It’s a system that tells your team what to send, when to act, and whom to notify the moment tariff risk crosses a threshold you’ve set.

Without one, alerts happen ad hoc: someone notices a rate change, forwards an email, and hopes the right people saw it before a PO goes out. A proper alert planner replaces that with a smart alert flag matrix by vendor, a built-in status tracker, and prewritten internal and external messages, so escalation follows the same rule every time instead of depending on who happened to be paying attention that day.

This is built into the Tariff Checklist & Alert Planner™ →

Track official sources like USTR, CBP, and Federal Register notices, paired with a free, regularly updated rate lookup tool so you’re working from current numbers.

Tariff news moves fast and gets contradicted often, which is exactly when teams start scrambling for updates instead of running their existing plan. Knowing which signals actually matter, and having alert templates ready before you need them, turns a reversal into a scheduled check-in instead of a fire drill.

Use the free US Tariff Rate Lookup, get the companion Tariff Rate Export, and organize reviews with the 90-Day Tariff Risk Calendar →

Use pre-built talking points and a slide deck that pulls straight from your dashboard, so you’re reporting numbers instead of building slides.

The bottleneck in most executive briefings isn’t the analysis, it’s the formatting — turning a spreadsheet into something a VP can read in ninety seconds. When your charts copy directly into a briefing deck and the talking points are already written, prep time drops from an afternoon to a five-minute copy-paste.

The Executive Talking Points PDF and the new Command Center’s Presentation Mode both solve this.

Built-in dashboards that forecast impact by category, supplier, or country, paired with a response plan that ranks mitigation steps by urgency.

Scenario planning only helps if it connects to action. Forecasting a hike by category or supplier shows you where the exposure sits; a response framework then tells you what to actually do about it, and in what order, so the analysis doesn’t dead-end as a chart nobody acts on.

The Response Plan and Tariff Risk Response Framework inside the Tariff Playbook Suite™ do exactly this.

No — both standalone $17 products have been retired.

The $27 Tariff Playbook Suite™ is now the only paid entry point. It includes both core systems, the connected 19-tab workbook, companion guides and response files, the executive briefing deck, and the Executive Interactive Command Center. If you are not ready for the complete suite, start with the free 90-Day Tariff Risk Calendar or use the live US Tariff Rate Lookup and get the free Tariff Rate Export.

See the free and paid starting points →

Yes — the suite is built for single-owner importers as much as enterprise procurement teams.

Every tab ships with pre-filled sample data, so a one-person operation can see how the workflow is supposed to run before entering a single real number. There’s no minimum team size, no required ERP integration, and no onboarding call needed to get value on day one.

See what’s included at every size in the full breakdown above →

It’s Excel-based, with Word, PDF, and PowerPoint companion files, plus a new browser-based dashboard.

You get instant download links after checkout, no subscription and no login required, and the Excel and Office files are yours to keep and reuse indefinitely. The Executive Interactive Command Center adds a browser-based layer on top of that: a single HTML file that reads your existing data and runs locally, with nothing to install.

See how the Command Center works alongside the Excel workbook →

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Possibly — overpaid tariffs can often be recovered through legal CBP refund programs such as protests and duty drawback.

Recovery depends on filing within specific liquidation and protest windows, which is where most companies miss out simply by not tracking the deadline, not because the claim wasn’t valid. An eligibility audit is the first step to find out whether a specific entry actually qualifies before you invest time in the paperwork.

The Tariff Refund Suite™ walks through eligibility, CBP protest templates, and duty drawback claims.

A single self-contained HTML file, included free, that turns your existing workbook data into a live executive dashboard in under a minute.

Import the included workbook, or paste the same data you already track in the Data Input and Vendor/Supplier Risk tabs. A Presentation Mode toggle turns those same numbers into a seven-slide, board-ready deck with presenter notes for each slide. It runs entirely in your browser, with no account, server, or subscription, so your supplier and cost data never leaves your machine.

See how it works, with screenshots, above →