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

post

Header parameters

x-loginstringRequired

Client username (set by Glopal)

Example: usernamePattern: ^[a-z0-9\-]{3,255}$

x-aliasstringOptional

Optional system username to enable separation of authentication credentials by integrated client system. (set by Glopal)

Example: alias-usernamePattern: ^[a-z0-9\-]{3,50}$

x-signaturestringRequired

The authentication signature is created by using the concatenation of the login, the ‘@’ sign and the timestamp, transformed into a HMAC_256 signature using your secret access key.

Example: 40b976b35a08bb951439ea7bbfa0a7bd73dab7c813399a31d9d1a157bc08929bPattern: ^[0-9a-f]{64}$

x-timestampnumber · floatRequired

The authentication timestamp must be a decimal numeric representing the current POSIX time, extended to microsecond accuracy. If the requesting system does not provide high-resolution time, it is advised to use a 6-digit random number. It is important to have the requesting system synchronised with a reliable time source (f.i. a stratum 2 NTP server) to avoid request rejection.

Example: 1680010295.775523Pattern: ^[12]\d{9}\.\d{6}$

x-versionnumber · floatOptionalDefault: 0.68Pattern: (^0\.\d{2}$|^[1-9]\d*\.\d{2}$)

Body

all ofOptional

Responses

200

OK

application/json

Responseall of

400

Bad Request

application/jsonapplication/xml

401

Unauthorized

application/jsonapplication/xml

403

Forbidden

application/jsonapplication/xml

404

Not found

application/jsonapplication/xml

405

Method not allowed

application/jsonapplication/xml

500

Internal server error

application/jsonapplication/xml

503

Service unavailable

application/jsonapplication/xml

post

HTTPcURLJavaScriptPython

POST /tcc/discover_prohibitions HTTP/1.1
Host: ws.xport.glopalservice.com
x-login: username
x-signature: 40b976b35a08bb951439ea7bbfa0a7bd73dab7c813399a31d9d1a157bc08929b
x-timestamp: 1680010295.775523
Content-Type: application/json
Accept: */*
Content-Length: 601

{
  "args": {
    "from_country_id": "FR",
    "to_country_id": "US",
    "to_state_id": "CA",
    "products": [
      {
        "quantity": 1,
        "unitprice": 234.56,
        "weight": 12.34,
        "merchant_sku": 1234567890,
        "alt_merchant_sku": "AMS1234567890",
        "parent_merchant_sku": 1234567890,
        "hs_code": 330310,
        "hs_code_country_id": "US",
        "country_id_of_origin": "FR",
        "description": "Pink summer dress",
        "brand": "BestDresses",
        "category": [
          "Dress"
        ],
        "materials": [
          "cotton"
        ],
        "gender": "Children",
        "gtin": 1234567890,
        "is_virtual": 1,
        "is_insured": 1,
        "insured_cap_amount": 234.56,
        "manufacturer_id": "AZERTYUI1AZ",
        "documentation_code": "Dress",
        "height": 23.45,
        "width": 34.56,
        "length": 13.57
      }
    ]
  }
}

{
  "products": [
    {
      "error": 0,
      "errors": [
        {
          "code": "ISSUE_CODE",
          "details": "Issue description",
          "field": "field"
        }
      ],
      "warnings": [
        {
          "code": "ISSUE_CODE",
          "details": "Issue description",
          "field": "field"
        }
      ],
      "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"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "error": 0,
  "errors": [
    {
      "code": "ISSUE_CODE",
      "details": "Issue description",
      "field": "field"
    }
  ],
  "warnings": [
    {
      "code": "ISSUE_CODE",
      "details": "Issue description",
      "field": "field"
    }
  ]
}