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Counter-Tariff Intelligence™. Incentive Capture. Capital Connection. We reduce what you pay at the border, recover what you have overpaid, and identify every federal and state incentive dollar your business qualifies for — then we connect you to the capital to grow.

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ProfitFuel™ Capital — Intelligence as a Service

Intelligence Brief Dossier™

A custom, one-off intelligence report built for your business — your vertical, your exposure, your recovery pathways. Delivered as a Fortune 50-grade dossier. No retainer required to start.

Your Business Has Intelligence Gaps.
We Close Them — On Demand.

Most Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) and business owners operate on incomplete intelligence. You do not know what you do not know — and the professionals around you are not built to tell you. Your CPA does not audit your tariff codes. Your broker does not chase exclusions. Your attorney waits for you to call.

The Intelligence Brief Dossier™ is a custom-built intelligence product — powered by ProfitFuel™ AiOS — that scans your vertical, audits your exposure, and delivers a lethal-precision report with actionable recovery pathways, incentive opportunities, and strategic recommendations you can execute immediately.

One engagement. One dossier. Total clarity. If you want ongoing intelligence after that, we offer retainer relationships with continuous monitoring and quarterly updates.

What Gets Covered

  • Tariff Exposure Audit — HTS classification review, Section 301/232 exposure, duty overpayment quantification
  • 5-Year Lookback Analysis — retroactive recovery potential under 19 USC §1514
  • Incentive & Grant Scan — CHIPS Act, IRA §45X, state reshoring programs, BABA benefits matched to your operations
  • Competitive Intelligence — how your landed costs compare to industry benchmarks
  • Regulatory Risk Assessment — upcoming tariff changes, trade policy shifts, exclusion window deadlines
  • Recovery Roadmap — prioritized action plan with projected savings and timeline
Reconnaissance

Vertical Snapshot

Rapid intelligence scan of your import operations and tariff exposure.

  • HTS code audit (top 10 product lines)
  • Section 301/232 exposure summary
  • Lookback recovery estimate
  • Top 3 incentive opportunities
  • Executive summary with next steps
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Full Dossier

Intelligence Brief Dossier™

Comprehensive intelligence product with full audit, recovery roadmap, and incentive capture strategy.

  • Complete HTS reclassification audit
  • Section 301/232 exclusion analysis
  • 5-year lookback recovery prosecution plan
  • Full IMS Agent™ incentive scan
  • Competitive landed cost benchmarking
  • Regulatory risk assessment
  • Prioritized recovery roadmap with projections
  • Fortune 50-grade executive dossier
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Retainer

Continuous Intelligence

Ongoing monitoring, quarterly updates, and real-time advisory for sustained tariff optimization.

  • Everything in the Full Dossier
  • Quarterly intelligence updates
  • Real-time exclusion window alerts
  • Policy change impact assessments
  • Ongoing IMS Agent™ grant monitoring
  • Priority access to ProfitFuel™ AiOS
  • Dedicated strategic advisor
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ProfitFuel™ Capital — Tariff Recovery Division

Counter-Tariff Intelligence™

Every dollar paid in avoidable tariffs is a dollar subtracted from your operating margin. We prosecute tariff exposure with forensic precision — reclassification, exclusion, recovery, and incentive capture.

I. Harmonized Tariff Schedule (HTS) Reclassification

Most importers inherit HTS codes from suppliers or brokers who default to the path of least resistance — not the path of least duty. We audit every line item against the United States International Trade Commission (USITC) Harmonized Tariff Schedule to identify defensible reclassifications that reduce or eliminate duty exposure. One digit can mean the difference between 25% and 0%.

II. Section 301 & Section 232 Exclusion Filings

Section 301 tariffs on Chinese-origin goods currently range from 7.5% to 25%. Section 232 steel and aluminum tariffs add further burden. The Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) maintains active exclusion processes. We prepare and prosecute exclusion petitions — product-specific, use-case specific — to remove or reduce punitive duties on qualifying imports.

III. 5-Year Lookback Recovery

United States Customs and Border Protection (CBP) allows retroactive duty recovery through Post Summary Corrections (PSC) and formal protests under 19 USC §1514 — with a statutory window of up to 5 years. If you have been overpaying duties due to misclassification, you may be entitled to substantial refunds on duties already paid. We quantify the exposure and prosecute the recovery.

5 Years

Statutory lookback window for duty recovery under 19 USC §1514

IV. Incentive & Grant Capture (IMS Agent™)

Beyond tariff reduction, our Incentive Management System (IMS) Agent™ framework identifies non-repayable federal and state funds — grants, tax credits, and incentive programs — that offset operational costs. This includes the CHIPS and Science Act, Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) Section 45X Advanced Manufacturing Production Credit, state reshoring incentives, and Build America Buy America (BABA) compliance benefits.

The Counter-Tariffism Doctrine

Tariffs are not a cost of doing business. They are a variable that can be engineered. Every import classification is a decision. Every exclusion filing is a legal argument. Every dollar recovered from overpaid duties is margin restored. ProfitFuel™ Capital does not accept the tariff schedule as given — we prosecute it.

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The Silo Problem™

Why most importers overpay — and never know it.

We Do Not Replace Your Key Team Members.

Your Certified Public Accountant (CPA) stays your CPA. Your Customs Broker stays your Customs Broker. Your Trade Attorney stays your Trade Attorney. Your Freight Forwarder stays your Freight Forwarder. We are the missing layer above all of them — the strategic intelligence directive that connects their independent work into a single, unified tariff reduction and recovery mission that none of them are incentivized or positioned to execute alone.

Your Advisors Are Siloed. Your Money Pays the Price.

Most importers rely on a fragmented team of professionals — each operating independently, each billing for their lane, and none of them incentivized to see the full picture.

  • Your Certified Public Accountant (CPA) — files your taxes and tracks expenses, but does not audit your Harmonized Tariff Schedule (HTS) codes or question the duties you pay. Tariff optimization is outside their scope.
  • Your Customs Broker — clears your shipments and applies HTS codes, but defaults to classifications inherited from suppliers. They are compensated for throughput, not for minimizing your duty exposure.
  • Your Trade Attorney — can file exclusion petitions and protests, but only acts when engaged. They do not proactively audit your import data for savings you do not know exist.
  • Your Freight Forwarder — moves your goods from port to warehouse, but has no visibility into whether you are overpaying at the border before the container even arrives.

Each professional does their job. None of them do yours. The result: tariff overpayment compounds year over year, exclusion opportunities expire unfiled, and recoverable duties sit unclaimed inside a 5-year statutory window that is closing every day.

The ProfitFuel™ Difference

ProfitFuel™ Capital operates as your Counter-Tariff Consultant — the single integrating layer that sits above your existing advisors with one directive: reduce what you pay and recover what you have overpaid.

We bring the right directive and the right motive to uncover the most effective and efficient pathways — then we design the recovery strategy and coordinate your existing team to execute it. No one gets replaced. Everyone gets directed.

  • Cross-functional audit across HTS, duties, exclusions, and incentives
  • Single point of accountability for total landed cost optimization
  • Proactive identification — we find what your siloed advisors miss
  • 5-year lookback recovery prosecution on overpaid duties
  • IMS Agent™ incentive and grant matching beyond tariff relief
  • Aligned incentives — we succeed when your costs go down
  • Your existing team stays intact — we add the intelligence layer they lack
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Tariff Exposure & Recovery Matrix

Medical Device Import Example — Representative Scenarios

Exposure Category Current Rate Recovery Strategy Potential Impact
Section 301 — List 3 (China Origin) 25% Exclusion petition + HTS reclassification Elimination or reduction to 0–7.5%
Section 301 — List 4A (China Origin) 7.5% Product-specific exclusion filing Full elimination
Most Favored Nation (MFN) Duty — UK/EU Origin Devices Varies (0–6%) HTS audit for preferential classification Reduction or duty-free entry
5-Year Overpayment (Misclassification) Historical Post Summary Correction / CBP Protest Retroactive refund — up to 5 years
Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) §45X Advanced Manufacturing Credit Credit Qualification audit + filing Direct tax credit on qualifying production
State Reshoring Incentives Grant / Credit IMS Agent™ program matching Non-repayable capital
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IMS Agent™ Methodology

Incentive Management System — a proprietary 3-step framework to identify, capture, and monitor federal and state incentives for manufacturers.

1

Comprehensive Audit

Complete analysis of all available federal and state incentive programs applicable to your manufacturing operations.

2

Strategic Optimization

Proprietary framework to maximize incentive value through strategic timing, structuring, and compliance optimization.

3

Implementation & Monitoring

Full-service implementation with ongoing monitoring to ensure maximum incentive capture and compliance maintenance.

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Incentive Services

Federal grants, state credits, tax incentives, and non-repayable capital — identified, captured, and monitored by the IMS Agent™ framework.

Counter-Tariff Intelligence Services

Counter-Tariff Intelligence™

Tariff Reduction & Recovery

  • Harmonized Tariff Schedule (HTS) reclassification audit — one digit can mean 25% to 0%
  • Section 301 & Section 232 exclusion petition filing
  • 5-year lookback duty recovery under 19 USC §1514
  • Post Summary Corrections (PSC) & formal CBP protest prosecution

Ongoing Tariff Advisory

  • Real-time exclusion window monitoring & deadline alerts
  • Trade policy impact assessments — new tariffs, sunset provisions
  • Quarterly tariff exposure reviews with updated recovery projections
  • Customs broker coordination & classification quality control
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IMS Agent Incentive Services

IMS Agent™ Incentive Capture

  • Federal incentive scan — CHIPS Act, Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) §45X, Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR), Economic Development Administration (EDA)
  • State economic development program matching — job creation credits, capital investment credits, training grants
  • Tax credit identification — Research & Development (R&D) Credit, Work Opportunity Tax Credit (WOTC), Historic Tax Credits (HTC), New Markets Tax Credits (NMTC)
  • Special designation qualification — HUBZone, Veteran-Owned, Minority-Owned, Woman-Owned, Opportunity Zones
  • Build America Buy America (BABA) compliance & optimization
  • Application preparation, filing, and compliance management
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Industry Specializations

Counter-Tariff Intelligence™ and IMS Agent™ incentive capture across every sector that imports, manufactures, or operates domestically.

Commercial Real Estate (CRE)

Comprehensive capital solutions for commercial real estate development, acquisition, and investment projects.

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Manufacturing & Industrial

Capital deployment for traditional and advanced manufacturing operations, industrial equipment, and production facilities.

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Energy & Renewables

Funding solutions for energy production, renewable energy projects, and sustainable infrastructure development.

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Technology & Software

Growth capital for technology companies, software development, and manufacturing technology integration.

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Healthcare & Life Sciences

Capital solutions for medical device manufacturing, pharmaceutical operations, and healthcare technology.

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Logistics & Supply Chain

Funding for logistics operations, supply chain optimization, and distribution infrastructure.

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Agriculture & Food Processing

Capital deployment for agricultural operations, food processing facilities, and agtech innovations.

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Consumer Goods & Retail

Growth capital for consumer product manufacturing, retail operations, and brand development.

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Business Services

Capital solutions for business service providers, professional services, and B2B technology platforms.

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Leadership

 

Troy DanDurand — Founder & CEO, ProfitFuel™ Capital

Troy DanDurand

MBA • MMSc • PhD (c)

Founder & Chief Executive Officer

Strategist. Not a Vendor.

Troy DanDurand is the founder and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of ProfitFuel™ Capital and the architect of Counter-Tariff Intelligence™ — a forensic methodology that prosecutes tariff exposure, recovers overpaid duties, and captures federal and state incentives that fragmented advisory teams are not built to find.

His career spans strategic consulting, capital deployment, and vertical-specific intelligence across industries where the difference between profit and loss is buried in regulations, classifications, and government programs that most businesses never access. He does not sell products. He builds intelligence architectures that produce measurable financial outcomes — then delivers them as Fortune 50-grade dossiers his clients can execute immediately.

Troy created the IMS Agent™ (Incentive Management System) framework — a dual-use intelligence engine that scans 100% of available federal, state, and local government programs applicable to any business or property acquisition. He created the Intelligence Brief Dossier™ as a one-off intelligence product that gives any Chief Executive Officer (CEO) total clarity on their tariff exposure, recovery pathways, and incentive eligibility — without a retainer, without a committee, and without leaving money on the table.

He identified The Silo Problem™ — the structural failure where Certified Public Accountants (CPAs), customs brokers, trade attorneys, and freight forwarders each operate independently, each billing for their lane, and none of them incentivized to see the full picture. ProfitFuel™ Capital exists as the missing intelligence layer above all of them — with the right directive and the right motive to coordinate recovery.

Sector Expertise

Medical Devices Manufacturing Healthcare Commercial Real Estate (CRE) Energy & Renewables Agriculture Technology Logistics Consumer Goods Aviation

DanDurand Enterprises, Inc.
1915 HWY 36 W, PMB 140 • Roseville, MN 55113
+1 (888) 594-8191 • troy@ProfitFuel.us

Ready to Connect?

Whether you import, manufacture, or operate domestically — if you are paying tariffs, missing incentives, or operating without intelligence on what your business qualifies for — we should talk.

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Roseville, MN 55113

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