Cambridge China Bridge — China sourcing MCP Server

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Cambridge China Bridge — China sourcing is answering right now. Last checked 7 min ago. It exposes 9 tools.

UK import duty, landed cost, anti-dumping and compliance checks for China-sourced goods.

Uptime history 7 hours of history · worst hour 0%

7 hours agonow

73.9%

Uptime 24h

17 of 23 checks

Tools

read from the server

115 ms

Response time

average over 24h

authentication required

Access

streamable-http

Cambridge China Bridge — China sourcing does not always answer

Over the last week it answered 73.9% of our checks. We check every 15 minutes, so you hear about the next outage within the hour — not from your users.

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 7 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add sourcing --transport http https://camchinabridge.co.uk/mcp

~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "sourcing": {
      "url": "https://camchinabridge.co.uk/mcp"
    }
  }
}

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.sourcing]
url = "https://camchinabridge.co.uk/mcp"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "sourcing": {
      "url": "https://camchinabridge.co.uk/mcp"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "sourcing": {
      "url": "https://camchinabridge.co.uk/mcp"
    }
  }
}

This endpoint answered with an authorization challenge. The server is running, but it did not say what kind of credentials it expects.

Available tools 9

Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on. If a tool disappears, we record the date.

anti

check_anti_dumping

Check whether a UK anti-dumping or countervailing measure applies to goods from China on a commodity code, from the live UK Trade Tariff. Deliberately gives no rate, because it depends on the exporter.

compare

compare_sea_and_air

Compare air and sea freight on total landed cost rather than on the freight quote: includes duty charged on the freight itself, the cost of capital tied up in transit, and profit lost while stock is unavailable. Also returns the weekly lost profit at which the two routes cost the same.

compliance

find_uk_compliance

List the UK regulatory regimes (UKCA, WEEE, PSTI, toy safety, food contact, REACH, packaging EPR and others) that apply to a type of product imported from China, with what to ask the supplier for. Call with no product_type to list the product types.

duty

find_duty_rate

Find the UK commodity code and import duty rate for a product from China, from a product description (English or Chinese) or a commodity code. Also flags codes where China-specific anti-dumping or countervailing duty exists.

estimate

estimate_landed_cost

Estimate customs value, UK import duty, import VAT and the total for goods imported from China, with the same arithmetic as the site's import duty calculator.

export

check_export_market

For a destination country, say what actually decides whether an import from China can happen there: a standards regulator, a bank through exchange control, a local trade licence, the tax authority, a risk-based check at import, or the buyer's own choice of where conformity is checked. Also says whether a missed requirement can be put right on arrival. Returns status not-verified, with no guess, for countries Cambridge China Bridge has not researched from primary sources. Call with no country to list the researched markets.

guides

search_guides

Search Cambridge China Bridge's guides to importing from China to the UK (duty and VAT, shipping, Incoterms, suppliers, quality, compliance, sectors). Returns each guide's one-sentence answer and URL.

plan

plan_around_chinese_new_year

Work backwards from the date stock is needed to the date a China order must be placed, against the real Chinese New Year factory shutdown rather than the statutory holiday. Says whether the plan collides with the closure, and gives the latest order date that avoids it.

submit

submit_enquiry

Send the user's sourcing enquiry or quote request to Cambridge China Bridge by email; they reply to the user directly. Only call this when the user has asked to contact them, after showing the user exactly what will be sent and getting their agreement. Every field must come from the user; never invent contact details.

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://camchinabridge.co.uk/mcp	streamable-http	needs auth	98 ms	7 min ago

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Cambridge China Bridge — China sourcing — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Cambridge China Bridge — China sourcing do?

It exposes 9 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: check_anti_dumping, check_export_market, compare_sea_and_air, estimate_landed_cost, find_duty_rate, find_uk_compliance and 3 more. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README. How MCP servers expose tools in the first place →

Is Cambridge China Bridge — China sourcing working right now?

We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 17 of 23 checks got a reply (73.9%), average response time 115 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

How do I connect Cambridge China Bridge — China sourcing?

Copy the ready config from this page — we generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each with the file path that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address. You will need your own credentials: it refuses anonymous clients.

Does Cambridge China Bridge — China sourcing need an API key?

Yes. Every time we knock, Cambridge China Bridge — China sourcing answers with an authorization challenge instead of its tool list — that is how we know it is running and gated rather than broken. Bring your own credentials and it will talk.

How fast is Cambridge China Bridge — China sourcing?

It answers our handshake in 115 ms on average, which is faster than 89% of all working MCP servers we measure. That puts it in the quick quarter of the ecosystem. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.