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Challenge

Build a Verified Origin Certificate Verification and Duty Expiry Reconciler

Audit ASEAN-Singapore preferential tariff certificates against OpenAttestation verification rules. Flag credential expiries and calculate mock customs duty liabilities.

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Challenge brief

What you are building

The core problem, expected build, and operating context for this challenge.

Audit ASEAN-Singapore preferential tariff certificates against OpenAttestation verification rules. Flag credential expiries and calculate mock customs duty liabilities.

Cross-Border Customs Broker

Ingest wrapped electronic Certificates of Origin (e-CO) formatted according to TradeTrust specifications.

Validate document authenticity and cryptographic signature status using OpenAttestation core functions.

Verify certificate validity dates against planned customs clearance and free trade agreement expiration dates.

Calculate potential duty impact if origin credentials expire and compile a customs audit file.

Customs tariff dashboard displaying certificate hash trees, HS code matches, and duty liability calculations.

Normalized JSON documents mimicking ASEAN Trade in Goods Agreement (ATIGA) Form D certificates wrapped with OpenAttestation. Starter examples below are synthetic. They are not downloaded records.

TradeTrust Leverages TradeTrust website and document-store integration paradigms to verify electronic certificates of origin against Sepolia testnet parameters.

langgraph, ethers, typescript. LangGraph manages cyclic verification workflows, branching between valid signatures, expired certificates, and duty recalculations. API-hosted model for analyzing trade agreement rules and synthesizing non-technical customs broker explanations.

Submit runnable source, pinned dependencies, setup commands, a working interface, example outputs, and a recorded end-to-end demo. Include tests and an action log.

Verify TradeTrust cryptographic signatures and merkle root inclusion.

Flag expired certificates of origin prior to import permit lodgement.

Compute preferential versus standard non-preferential duty deltas accurately.

Generate a structured customs reconciliation summary for broker sign-off.

```json [ { "input": { "declaration_id": "DEC-SG-CUSTOMS-5501", "hs_code": "8471.30.00", "goods_description": "Data processing servers", "customs_value_sgd": 350000, "preferential_rate_percent": 0, "standard_rate_percent": 5, "co_document": { "certificate_number": "MY-SG-2024-8871", "expiry_date": "2025-06-30T00:00:00Z", "signature_valid": true, "merkle_root_published": true }, "declaration_date": "2025-04-12T00:00:00Z" }, "expected_output": { "certificate_status": "VALID_ACTIVE", "preferential_duty_eligible": true, "applied_duty_sgd": 0, "duty_saved_sgd": 17500, "customs_ready": true, "broker_action": "Proceed with zero-tariff FTA import lodgement." } }, { "input": { "declaration_id": "DEC-SG-CUSTOMS-5502", "hs_code": "2208.30.00", "goods_description": "Commercial spirits", "customs_value_sgd": 80000, "preferential_rate_percent": 2, "standard_rate_percent": 10, "co_document": { "certificate_number": "TH-SG-2023-1102", "expiry_date": "2024-12-31T00:00:00Z", "signature_valid": true, "merkle_root_published": true }, "declaration_date": "2025-04-12T00:00:00Z" }, "expected_output": { "certificate_status": "EXPIRED", "preferential_duty_eligible": false, "applied_duty_sgd": 8000, "duty_saved_sgd": 0, "customs_ready": false, "broker_action": "Preferential tariff certificate expired. Hold declaration or lodge under standard MFN duty rate (10%)." } } ] ```

No filings are made to Singapore Customs; all duty rate comparisons and document validations are simulated locally. Use mock external writes. Require human review before any real deployment.

Rules

Participation guide

No filings are made to Singapore Customs; all duty rate comparisons and document validations are simulated locally. Use mock external writes and human review.

Delivery guide

How work is evaluated

Evaluation

Verify TradeTrust cryptographic signatures and merkle root inclusion. Flag expired certificates of origin prior to import permit lodgement. Compute preferential versus standard non-preferential duty deltas accurately. Generate a structured customs reconciliation summary for broker sign-off.

Submission format

Runnable source, pinned dependencies, setup commands, working interface, example outputs, recorded demo, tests, and action logs.

Datasets

Challenge datasets

Public datasets, plus the private datasets you have access to.

Evaluation rubric

How submissions are scored

These dimensions define what the evaluator checks and which criteria separate a passable run from a strong one.

Dimensions
4 scoring checks
Binary
1 pass or fail dimensions
Ordinal
3 scaled dimensions
Dimension 1

Complete workflow

Ingest wrapped electronic Certificates of Origin (e-CO) formatted according to TradeTrust specifications. Validate document authenticity and cryptographic signature status using OpenAttestation core functions. Verify certificate validity dates against planned customs clearance and free trade agreement expiration dates. Calculate potential duty impact if origin credentials expire and compile a customs audit file.

Score scale
012
Score 0

Missing or incorrect.

Score 1

Partly complete, with documented gaps.

Score 2

Complete, with reproducible evidence.

Dimension 2

Correctness and evidence

Verify TradeTrust cryptographic signatures and merkle root inclusion. Flag expired certificates of origin prior to import permit lodgement. Compute preferential versus standard non-preferential duty deltas accurately. Generate a structured customs reconciliation summary for broker sign-off.

Score scale
012
Score 0

Missing or incorrect.

Score 1

Partly complete, with documented gaps.

Score 2

Complete, with reproducible evidence.

Dimension 3

Review interface

Customs tariff dashboard displaying certificate hash trees, HS code matches, and duty liability calculations.

Score scale
012
Score 0

Missing or incorrect.

Score 1

Partly complete, with documented gaps.

Score 2

Complete, with reproducible evidence.

Dimension 4

Safe execution

No filings are made to Singapore Customs; all duty rate comparisons and document validations are simulated locally.

Binary check

This dimension contributes its full weight only when the submission satisfies the requirement. Partial credit is not awarded.

Learning goals

What you should walk away with

  • Ingest wrapped electronic Certificates of Origin (e-CO) formatted according to TradeTrust specifications.

  • Validate document authenticity and cryptographic signature status using OpenAttestation core functions.

  • Verify certificate validity dates against planned customs clearance and free trade agreement expiration dates.

  • Calculate potential duty impact if origin credentials expire and compile a customs audit file.

Resources and assets

Reference links and supporting material

Dataset notes

Normalized JSON documents mimicking ASEAN Trade in Goods Agreement (ATIGA) Form D certificates wrapped with OpenAttestation. Supplied starter examples are synthetic, not source extracts.

Challenge setup

Configuration summary for this challenge.

Challenge input

Input details are not configured.

LangGraph

Runtime for stateful agent workflows.

Evaluated output

No output checks are configured.

Evaluation checks
  • Ingest wrapped electronic Certificates of Origin (e-CO) formatted according to TradeTrust specifications. V...
  • Verify TradeTrust cryptographic signatures and merkle root inclusion. Flag expired certificates of origin p...
  • Customs tariff dashboard displaying certificate hash trees, HS code matches, and duty liability calculations.
Configured evaluation evidence
  • 2 public reference cases
Configured runtime
  • 2 configured tools

Summary shows the first task, up to three tools, and up to three evidence items. Open the technical recipe to view all configured items.

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Configured tools

Action Space
  • LangGraph · Optional
Orchestration
  • LangGraph · Optional

Evaluation contract

  • Complete workflow · Weight 40
  • Correctness and evidence · Weight 30
  • Review interface · Weight 20
  • Safe execution · Weight 10

Reference cases

  • 2 public reference cases

Workflow tasks

No workflow tasks are configured.

Recipe freeze marker

No recipe freeze time is recorded.

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