Reshoring & Tariff Strategy worked example

Trade Compliance Audit Load at 99% target compliance audit coverage rate: a worked example

Push target compliance audit coverage rate up to 99% and the picture changes. This example computes every intermediate figure at that operating point. Use it when trade compliance audit load in reshoring and tariff strategy needs a clean rate and gap-to-target you can put on a tier board.

The inputs for this scenario

  • Shipments flagged for compliance audit: 8 count (unchanged)
  • Total shipments in the review period: 250 count (unchanged)
  • Target compliance audit coverage rate: 99 % (raised for this scenario; the documented default is 95)

Working through the calculation

  • Applying the documented formula (Trade compliance audit load rate = trade compliance audit load count ÷ total trade compliance audit load population × 100) to the inputs above produces each figure below.
  • At this operating point the engine returns 3.2 % for trade compliance audit load rate, the number this scenario is built around.
  • At this operating point the engine returns 95.8 points for trade compliance audit load gap to target.
  • At this operating point the engine returns 8 count for trade compliance audit load count.
  • At this operating point the engine returns 250 count for total trade compliance audit load population.

How this compares with the baseline

  • Against the tool's baseline example, where target compliance audit coverage rate sits at 95% and the headline result is 3.2 %, this scenario lands almost exactly on the baseline at 3.2 %.
  • It computes the audit load rate — flagged shipments divided by total shipments times 100 — and the gap in percentage points between that rate and your target. The value of this scenario is the size of the gap it exposes: that gap, priced out over a year, is the budget you can justify spending to close it.

Results at a glance

  • Trade compliance audit load rate: 3.2 % (headline result)
  • Trade compliance audit load gap to target: 95.8 points
  • Trade compliance audit load count: 8 count
  • Total trade compliance audit load population: 250 count

Run it with your numbers

  • Every input above is editable in the live Trade Compliance Audit Load calculator, which recalculates instantly and can be shared with the inputs intact.

Last reviewed 2026-05-12.