Cambridge China Bridge — China sourcing MCP Server

by co-camchinabridge Your server? Claim it

answering

Cambridge China Bridge — China sourcing is answering right now. Last checked 7 min ago. It exposes 16 tools.

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

Uptime history 47 days of history · worst day 90%

47 days agonow

100.0%

Uptime 24h

92 of 92 checks

Tools

read from the server

232 ms

Response time

average over 24h

open, no key

Access

streamable-http

What changed 29

Every tool that appeared, vanished or quietly changed what it asks for. Recorded since 25 September 2026. No other catalogue keeps this.

20 Oct 3 tools appeared check_export_rebate_change, check_recall_causes, screen_supplier_name

20 Oct 2 tools changed the parameters they ask for check_anti_dumping, submit_enquiry

20 Oct a tool description was rewritten check_anti_dumping

15 Oct a tool appeared get_verification_standard

15 Oct a tool description was rewritten get_company_facts

14 Oct a tool description was rewritten get_company_facts

11 Oct 11 tool descriptions were rewritten15 times that day check_anti_dumping, check_china_import_rules, check_export_market and 8 more

11 Oct a tool changed the parameters it asks for estimate_landed_cost

9 Oct a tool appeared check_china_import_rules

8 Oct a tool appeared get_company_facts

and 6 more, back to 25 September 2026

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check Cambridge China Bridge — China sourcing every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.

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

Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste this address

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

{
  "servers": {
    "sourcing": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://camchinabridge.co.uk/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 16

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

estimate

estimate_container_space

Use when the user asks for the CBM of a shipment or how many containers a carton line needs: estimates CBM, shipment weight and volume-only 20ft/40ft/high-cube container counts from one carton line. Useful for full-container RFQ planning; not a loading simulation or a freight quote.

estimate_landed_cost

Use when the user asks how much duty and VAT they will pay to import goods from China to the UK: estimates customs value, UK import duty, import VAT and the total, with the same arithmetic as the site's import duty calculator.

export

check_export_market

Use when the user asks about importing from China into a country other than the UK: for that destination country, says 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. With no country, it lists the researched markets.

check_export_rebate_change

Changes in tracked Chinese export rebate announcements covering an HS code prefix, with announcement number, effective date and previous and new percentages. This historical announcement lookup is not the current rate.

anti

check_anti_dumping

Check Chinese goods for trade defence duties. market defaults to uk: uses the live UK Trade Tariff, with no single rate because it depends on the exporter. market eu: searches the sourced EU snapshot by product keyword or CN code prefix and gives indicative ranges and EUR-Lex regulations. Always check TARIC before EU import; no match is not clearance.

china

check_china_import_rules

Use when the user asks what it takes to export a UK product to China (whisky, gin, biscuits, tea, chocolate, skincare, infant formula, pet food, cashmere, machinery and about 200 more). Says what China requires: China Customs (GACC) manufacturer registration route, the import tariff and VAT, whether the cross-border e-commerce (CBEC) route is open, Chinese labelling, certification and the main national standards, plus 2025 UK export value. Facts come only from official sources, each with its link and the date it was checked. Accepts a product name in English or Chinese, or an HS code.

company

get_company_facts

Use when the user asks whether Cambridge China Bridge is legitimate or how it is paid: returns verifiable facts, namely UK company number and incorporation date (with the Companies House link), UK VAT number, registered office, trade-body membership, named UK service partners, public review profiles, how it is paid (no supplier rebates), what it declines, and the version and links of its published verification standard. Cite the links so the user can check them.

compare

compare_sea_and_air

Use when the user is choosing between air and sea freight from China: compares the two on total landed cost rather than on the freight quote, including 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

Use when the user asks which UK rules, markings or certificates a product imported from China needs: lists the UK regulatory regimes (UKCA, WEEE, PSTI, toy safety, food contact, REACH, packaging EPR and others) that apply to a type of product, with what to ask the supplier for. With no product_type, it lists the product types.

duty

find_duty_rate

Use when the user asks what duty rate or commodity code applies to a product imported from China to the UK: finds the UK commodity code and import duty rate from a product description (English or Chinese) or a commodity code. Also flags codes where China-specific anti-dumping or countervailing duty exists.

guides

search_guides

Use for a question about importing from China to the UK that the other tools do not answer directly: searches Cambridge China Bridge's guides (duty and VAT, shipping, Incoterms, suppliers, quality, compliance, sectors). Returns each guide's one-sentence answer and URL.

plan

plan_around_chinese_new_year

Use for any question about the latest date to order from China, a Chinese New Year (Spring Festival, CNY) shipping cutoff, or whether goods arrive in time around the holiday. Works backwards from the date stock is needed (by sea, air or express) to the order date, against the real factory shutdown rather than the statutory holiday. Says whether the plan collides with the closure and gives the latest safe order date.

recall

check_recall_causes

Top hazards, China-origin alert counts and share of published alerts by matching product category in UK OPSS and EU Safety Gate data windows, with supplier due-diligence questions and dated sources. Published alerts are not a product failure rate.

screen

screen_supplier_name

Possible English or Chinese name matches against UK Sanctions List entities, CN/HK US Consolidated Screening List entities and UFLPA entities, with match type and dated sources. Automated name check, not legal advice; a match needs manual review; no match is not clearance.

submit

submit_enquiry

Use only when the user has asked to contact Cambridge China Bridge or to get a quote: sends the user's sourcing enquiry or quote request to them by email, and they reply to the user directly. It sends only when user_confirmed is true, meaning the user has seen exactly what will be sent and agreed. All contact details are the user's own.

verification

get_verification_standard

Returns the CCB Verification Standard v2.0, the published rules Cambridge China Bridge works to when it checks a Chinese supplier: the three levels (desk check, factory audit, pre-shipment inspection), each with the question it answers, method, price, report turnaround, validity, what is checked, the evidence needed and the result categories; the finding statuses and verdicts; independence rules; limits (not ISO-accredited, no certificates issued); and the URLs of the standard page, its JSON copy and the sample reports.

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://camchinabridge.co.uk/mcp	streamable-http	answering	125 ms	7 min ago

Alternatives to Cambridge China Bridge — China sourcing

same job, measured the same way

Carstrike MCP Server

by carstrikeau

Live JDM auction search, SEV compliance checks, and import cost calculator.

local only

China Import Quote Preflight

by yl124915300-dot

Before-payment check for China quotes to US/EU: costs, low-value rules, and compliance blockers.

4 tools answering

GlanceDesk

by glancedesk

Checked calculators for money, tax, crypto, engineering and compliance, each with formula and source

8 tools answering

UK Data: Compliance and finance checks

by co-reliness

LEI lookups with parent companies (GLEIF), IBAN validation and UK sort code checks

2 tools answering

FBI Most Wanted

by mcp-dir

Checks whether a name is on the FBI Most Wanted list, for compliance and AML due diligence. Platform

7 tools answering

US compliance and books health

by medianfi

US company filing obligations, plus a 25-check bookkeeping diagnostic. Sourced, dated, no signup.

12 tools answering

Raportagent MCP

by raportagent

Sourced market and compliance research for Claude Desktop, Claude Code and Cursor.

47 installs/wk local only

Sanções União Europeia

by mcp-dir

Checks whether a name is on the European Union's financial sanctions list, for compliance and AML du

7 tools answering

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 16 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: check_anti_dumping, check_china_import_rules, check_export_market, check_export_rebate_change, check_recall_causes, compare_sea_and_air and 10 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 →

What is Cambridge China Bridge — China sourcing mostly used for?

Its tools cluster around export and estimate. That is what this server is built to work with — the grouping comes from the actual tool names, not from a category we assigned.

Is Cambridge China Bridge — China sourcing working right now?

We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 92 of 92 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 232 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 in the form that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.

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

No. Cambridge China Bridge — China sourcing completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 16 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.

How fast is Cambridge China Bridge — China sourcing?

It answers our handshake in 232 ms on average, which is faster than 62% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.