Kona API

Kona's API-first architecture enables organisations to embed accurate, real-time trade and compliance data directly into operational workflows, without disrupting existing platforms or processes.

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Designed for Real-World Cross Border Systems

Global trade environments are complex, distributed and high-volume. Hurricane’s Kona API is designed to operate reliably within this reality.

They support both real-time and asynchronous workflows, enabling organisations to make consistent trade decisions wherever and however they operate.

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Designed for Real World Trade Systems diagram

Flexible Integration Patterns

Global Trade

Kona supports multiple integration approaches to suit different operational needs.

Real-Time Results
Instant trade and compliance data embedded directly into live transaction flows, such as checkout, shipment creation or customs processing.
Event-Driven Workflows
Kona enables real-time decisions based on system events and returned data, enabling responsive and automated operations.
Front End or Back End solutions
Kona can be embedded anywhere within your work flows. To provide data for shipments before they are consigned, or within real-time flows, deciding whether a parcel can be shipped as its scanned.

Built to Fit Your Technology Stack

Hurricane integrates cleanly with modern and legacy environments.

Kona is designed to work alongside:

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Logistics and transport management systems

E-commerce and marketplace platforms

Customs and brokerage software

Financial, billing and risk systems

This ensures Kona adds massive value to existing infrastructure rather than replacing it.

Kona Key Features

Security and governance are the foundations of Hurricane’s integration model.

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Kona Provides real-time data that covers the 4 main pillars of cross border data and compliance:

HS Classification for 10 digits and beyond using Hurricane’s industry leading classification engine
Duty and Tax Calculations – Hurricane have been consistently proven to be the most accurate time and time again in side-by-side tests. We cover all aspects of the calculation including Country of Origin and an free or preferential trade agreements. We provide tax breakdowns for USA (State, County, City & Special) and Canada (National & Provincial), and know that The Canary Isles and Mainland Spain have different tax regimes.
Prohibited and Restricted Goods Screening, including the new CBP/CPSC rulings, as well as ECCNs, ECN, Y&C Tariff Footnotes, IPAFFs. We also cover quota’d goods and those subject to countervailing, anti-dumping and anti-forced-labour controls. We also have import, export and transport controls for all the world’s nations, states and dependencies.
Denied Parties Screening – covering all territories and all the governmental lists. Our solution allows you to build risk profiles for the whole company or by individual trade lane.

This ensures that all of your cross border shipments remain defensible and compliant.

Performance, Reliability & Scale

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Customers rely on Kona for:

High availability and low-latency responses
Consistent performance at peak volumes
Global coverage across regions and time zones

This enables predictable operations even as transaction volumes and complexity grow.

Supported by Experts

Integration does not stop at documentation.

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Hurricane provides technical and solutions support throughout the Kona integration lifecycle, helping teams:

Validate use cases and workflows
Test and optimise integrations
Scale safely as requirements evolve

This reduces risk and accelerates time to value.

What We Screen Products Against.

Kona leverages over 300 man years of trade compliance intelligence. A huge part of this is a deep understanding of the import, export and transport requirements for all nations globally. There are requirements published by nations and trading blocs that tell you implicitly what those requirements are.

For those countries that don’t list them implicitly, we have Hurricane’s own codes for import, export and also uniquely transport restrictions that affect you consignments.

Below are a selection of the published lists we screen for.

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US CBP, CPSC and PGA Import Requirements

US Export Control Classification Number (ECCN) Codes

EU Export Control Number (ECN)

EU Tariff Footnote Controls (Y&C) Codes

UK Import of Products, Animals, Food and Feed System (IPAFF)

Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES)

Whereever you are shipping goods, be assured Hurricane has your compliance covered.

Built for the Reality of Global Trade

Global trade breaks down when data is inconsistent, late or fragmented across teams and systems.

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Hurricane standardises critical trade decisions across markets, regulatory regimes and delivery models, reducing operational disruption and enabling confident global expansion.