UNSPSC 93161609: Tariff or duty

A tariff is a tax on goods upon importation, a duty is a specific or ad valorem tax imposed by law on the import or export of goods.

UNSPSC 93161609 Tariff or duty is a Commodity code with minimal recent state and local procurement activity. The single recent opportunity on record shows no direct alignment with the code's nominal scope: the Technical College System of Georgia (TCSG) issued an eRFQ for a sole brand AKTAgo Liquid Chromatography System, a scientific instrument for protein purification in a biotechnology educational program — a capital equipment purchase for higher education that falls outside tariff and duty administration. The code's abstract title suggests customs, import fees, or trade compliance services, yet the sourced opportunity contains no such work. State and local procurement activity under this code appears sparse enough that current visibility into the issuing bodies, geographic concentration, or scope of tariff-related work is limited by this single misaligned record.

The Georgia opportunity—posted April 23, 2026, with a response deadline of April 29, 2026—was issued by Athens Technical College via the Clayton County purchasing authority under the State Purchasing Act, routed through the Team Georgia Marketplace Bid Event portal. No incumbent contractor or budget ceiling was disclosed. The narrow timeframe and sole brand mandate suggest a routine replacement or standardized equipment adoption for the college's Biotechnology Programs. If this code is intended to track tariff administration, trade duty classification, or import-compliance services at the state and local level, the recent-opportunity record does not support that scope, and pursuit should be deferred pending clearer alignment between the code definition and actual state or local solicitations in this area.