Prohibited Goods

Based on destination country and the provided or determined HS code, Glopal checks any items against a list of maintained import prohibition rules, and flags any products that hit one or more rules as either warning or prohibited, such as:

• P01: Absolutely prohibited

• P02: Prohibited for China: Requires license/permit/certificate that is difficult to obtain

• W0K: Warning for Australia: Pharmaceutical products. Subject to import approval from Department of Health

Maintained prohibition rules are based on national official websites and available carrier information, and in most cases manually linked to the affected commodity codes.

Prohibition checks are carried out during the calculation of total landed costs (opt-in). Alternatively, a dedicated API service allows the prohibition screening for products and full product catalogues for any maintained shipping route:

Discover prohibition & hs codes for products

POSThttps://ws.xport.glopalservice.com/tcc/discover_prohibitions

Header parameters

Body

application/json

args*object

Response

200

OK

Body

application/json

error*enum

Boolean defining call success

Example: 0

10

errorsarray of object

List of errors (if request was not successful)

warningsarray of object

List of warnings

productsarray of object

List of discovered products

Request

JavaScriptCurlPython

const response = await fetch('https://ws.xport.glopalservice.com/tcc/discover_prohibitions', {
    method: 'POST',
    headers: {
      "x-login": "username",
      "x-signature": "40b976b35a08bb951439ea7bbfa0a7bd73dab7c813399a31d9d1a157bc08929b",
      "x-timestamp": "1680010295.775523",
      "Content-Type": "application/json"
    },
    body: JSON.stringify({
      "args": {
        "products": [
          {}
        ]
      }
    }),
});
const data = await response.json();

Response

200

{
  "error": 0,
  "errors": [
    {
      "code": "ISSUE_CODE",
      "details": "Issue description",
      "field": "field"
    }
  ],
  "warnings": [
    {
      "code": "ISSUE_CODE",
      "details": "Issue description",
      "field": "field"
    }
  ],
  "products": [
    {
      "error": 0,
      "errors": [
        {
          "code": "ISSUE_CODE",
          "details": "Issue description",
          "field": "field"
        }
      ],
      "warnings": [
        {
          "code": "ISSUE_CODE",
          "details": "Issue description",
          "field": "field"
        }
      ],
      "product_class": "girl dress",
      "hs_code": 330310,
      "merchant_sku": 1234567890,
      "parent_merchant_sku": 1234567890,
      "description": "Pink summer dress",
      "country_id_of_origin": "FR",
      "materials": [
        "cotton"
      ],
      "category": [
        "Dress"
      ],
      "gender": "Children",
      "prohibitions": [
        {
          "error": 0,
          "errors": [
            {
              "code": "ISSUE_CODE",
              "details": "Issue description",
              "field": "field"
            }
          ],
          "warnings": [
            {
              "code": "ISSUE_CODE",
              "details": "Issue description",
              "field": "field"
            }
          ],
          "from_country_id": "FR",
          "to_country_id": "US",
          "to_state_id": "CA",
          "hs_code": 330310,
          "prohibition_id": "W12",
          "prohibition_note": "Warning for product type importing to destination country",
          "prohibition_source": "GLOBAL"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}