# Cambridge China Bridge — China sourcing (remote · camchinabridge.co.uk)

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

- Trust score: 73/100 (medium)
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: live
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-09-27

## Components

- remote · `camchinabridge.co.uk`: 73/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/uk-co-camchinabridge-sourcing/camchinabridge.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/uk-co-camchinabridge-sourcing/camchinabridge)

## Channel facts

- Endpoint: `https://camchinabridge.co.uk/mcp`
- Transports: `streamable-http`
- Auth: `none`
- Version: `1.1.0`

## Trust breakdown

How this component scores in each security and reliability category. Every signal is checked automatically against the live server, and we only credit what we can confirm. Scores are 0–100 per category. Scoring method: https://verifymcp.io/docs/scoring (what has changed: https://verifymcp.io/docs/scoring/changelog)

Scored 2026-09-27.

- **Endpoint Security**: 74/100
  - The endpoint's TLS certificate is valid, in date, and uses a strong key.
  - No authorisation is required to call this server. Every tool declares its destructiveHint and none is destructive, so open access doesn't expose one.
  - HTTPS is enforced; there's no plaintext access path.
  - HSTS check failed: the Strict-Transport-Security header is absent.
  - DNSSEC check failed: this domain isn't protected by DNSSEC.
- **Transport & Reachability**: 100/100
  - Verified streamable-http transport via a live MCP handshake.
- **Schema Quality & AI Usability**: 71/100
  - AI-judged instruction clarity (excellent).
  - Context-footprint check failed: tool/resource definitions use about 1854 tokens (~185/item across 10 items; 10 tools + 0 resources), over budget; trim descriptions and params.
  - Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples.
- **Stability & Change Management**: 17/100
  - Stability observed for 5 of 30 days with no destabilising changes; credit accrues until the full window elapses.
- **Tool Coverage**: 100/100
  - 100% of tools have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the tool's name).
  - 100% of tool parameters carry a description.
- **Tool Safety**: 100/100
  - No prompt-injection markers were found in the server instructions, tool names or descriptions we captured.
  - All 1 tool(s) whose name or description implies an irreversible operation declare an MCP destructiveHint annotation.
  - An AI judge read all 11 captured unit(s) of tool text and found none that tries to manipulate the model reading it.
- **Capabilities**: 100/100
  - Implements a supported MCP spec version (2025-11-25); the latest is 2026-07-28.

## Install

### How do I install the Cambridge China Bridge — China sourcing MCP server?

Cambridge China Bridge — China sourcing is a hosted endpoint at https://camchinabridge.co.uk/mcp, so there is nothing to install locally. Ready-made configuration for Claude, Cursor, VS Code, Codex and 5 more is on this page, copied from each client's own documentation.

### Claude

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

### Cursor

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

### VS Code

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

### Codex

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

### opencode

```json
{
  "$schema": "https://opencode.ai/config.json",
  "mcp": {
    "uk-co-camchinabridge-sourcing": {
      "type": "remote",
      "url": "https://camchinabridge.co.uk/mcp",
      "enabled": true
    }
  }
}
```

### OpenClaw

```bash
openclaw mcp add uk-co-camchinabridge-sourcing --url 'https://camchinabridge.co.uk/mcp' --transport streamable-http
```

### Hermes

```yaml
mcp_servers:
  uk-co-camchinabridge-sourcing:
    url: "https://camchinabridge.co.uk/mcp"
```

### Netclaw

```json
{
  "McpServers": {
    "uk-co-camchinabridge-sourcing": {
      "Transport": "http",
      "Url": "https://camchinabridge.co.uk/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### Vellum

```bash
assistant mcp add uk-co-camchinabridge-sourcing -t streamable-http -u 'https://camchinabridge.co.uk/mcp'
```

### Other

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "uk-co-camchinabridge-sourcing": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://camchinabridge.co.uk/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

The mcpServers block is a cross-client convention. Remote transports vary, so check your client's docs.

## Changelog

Every change recorded for this component, newest first. Days that predate change tracking, or that we cannot explain, say so: "we were watching and nothing happened" and "we were not watching" are different claims.

### 2026-09-27 (score 73, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 13 to 17. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 4 days of observed history at the previous scan, 5 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-09-25 (score 72, +1)

- [functional] We updated how we score, so this day's move reflects our rubric, not a change to the server

### 2026-09-24 (score 71, 0)

- [security] The server rewrote its instructions, which are the text every model session reads
- [functional regression] Schema quality: 168 → 185
- [functional] New tool “estimate_container_space”

### 2026-09-23 (score 71, 0)

- [functional improvement] Stability: unverified → 0.03

### 2026-09-22 (score 71)

First indexed and scored.

## MCP tools (10)

### `find_duty_rate` (~125 tokens)

Find a UK 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.

Input parameters:

- `commodity_code` (string): A 6 to 10 digit UK commodity code, if known.
- `locale` (string): Language for names and links: en (default) or zh (Simplified Chinese).
- `product` (string): What is being imported, e.g. 'cotton t-shirts' or 'ceramic tiles'.

### `estimate_landed_cost` (~140 tokens)

Estimate UK import duty and VAT

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.

Input parameters:

- `duty_percent` (number, required): Duty rate in percent, from find_duty_rate.
- `freight_and_insurance_gbp` (number): Freight and insurance to the UK border, in pounds. Default 0.
- `goods_value_gbp` (number, required): Price paid for the goods, in pounds.
- `locale` (string): Language for names and links: en (default) or zh (Simplified Chinese).
- `vat_percent` (number): Import VAT rate. Default 20.

### `estimate_container_space` (~138 tokens)

Estimate carton volume and full-container space

Estimate 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.

Input parameters:

- `carton_count` (integer, required): Number of identical cartons.
- `height_cm` (number, required): Outer carton height in centimetres.
- `length_cm` (number, required): Outer carton length in centimetres.
- `locale` (string): Language for the page link.
- `weight_per_carton_kg` (number): Gross weight per carton in kilograms, if known.
- `width_cm` (number, required): Outer carton width in centimetres.

### `check_anti_dumping` (~96 tokens)

Check for anti-dumping duty on Chinese goods

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.

Input parameters:

- `commodity_code` (string, required): A 6 to 10 digit UK commodity code.
- `locale` (string): Language for names and links: en (default) or zh (Simplified Chinese).

### `find_uk_compliance` (~123 tokens)

Find UK compliance requirements

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.

Input parameters:

- `locale` (string): Language for names and links: en (default) or zh (Simplified Chinese).
- `product_type` (string): A product type such as 'toys', 'electronics' or 'furniture' (Chinese also works).

### `search_guides` (~94 tokens)

Search the importing 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.

Input parameters:

- `locale` (string): Language for names and links: en (default) or zh (Simplified Chinese).
- `query` (string, required): What the user wants to know, in English or Chinese.

### `check_export_market` (~138 tokens)

Check what governs importing into a country

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.

Input parameters:

- `country` (string): Destination country name in English or Chinese, or its two-letter code. Omit to list the researched markets.

### `plan_around_chinese_new_year` (~159 tokens)

Plan an order around the Chinese New Year shutdown

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.

Input parameters:

- `arrival_date` (string, required): The date the stock has to be in the warehouse, as YYYY-MM-DD.
- `mode` (string): Shipping mode; sets the default transit time. Defaults to sea-fcl.
- `production_days` (number): Production lead time in days, if the factory has quoted one. Defaults to 30.
- `transit_days` (number): Door-to-door transit days, if the user has a real figure from a forwarder.

### `compare_sea_and_air` (~256 tokens)

Compare sea against air on total cost

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.

Input parameters:

- `air_days` (number): Door-to-door air transit days. Defaults to 8.
- `air_rate_per_kg` (number, required): Air freight rate quoted per chargeable kg, in GBP.
- `capital_rate_percent` (number): Annual cost of money tied up in stock, as a percentage. Defaults to 8.
- `duty_rate_percent` (number): Customs duty rate on the goods, as a percentage.
- `goods_value` (number, required): Value of the goods in GBP.
- `lost_profit_per_week` (number): Gross profit lost per week the stock cannot be sold, in GBP.
- `sea_days` (number): Door-to-door sea transit days. Defaults to 38.
- `sea_quote` (number, required): Total sea freight quote, in GBP.
- `volume_cbm` (number, required): Volume of the shipment in cubic metres.
- `weight_kg` (number, required): Gross weight of the shipment in kg.

### `submit_enquiry` (~217 tokens)

Send an enquiry to Cambridge China Bridge

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.

Input parameters:

- `assistant` (string): Which assistant is sending this (chatgpt, claude, gemini, perplexity, copilot or other). Optional.
- `company` (string): The user's company, if they gave one.
- `email` (string, required): The email address to reply to.
- `message` (string): Anything else the user wants to say.
- `name` (string, required): The user's name.
- `phone` (string): The user's phone number, if they want to give one.
- `product` (string, required): What they want sourced: product, specification or link, quantity, target price.
- `user_confirmed` (boolean, required): true only if the user has seen these details and agreed to send them.

## Diagnostics

Captured diagnostic sections: TLS, DNSSEC, Authorisation, Transports. The full working is on the page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/uk-co-camchinabridge-sourcing/camchinabridge#diagnostics

## Score history

- 2026-09-27: 73
- 2026-09-26: 72
- 2026-09-25: 72
- 2026-09-24: 71
- 2026-09-23: 71
- 2026-09-22: 71

## Common questions

### What is the Cambridge China Bridge — China sourcing MCP server?

Cambridge China Bridge — China sourcing is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as uk.co.camchinabridge/sourcing. UK import duty, landed cost, anti-dumping and compliance checks for China-sourced goods. This page covers its hosted endpoint (https://camchinabridge.co.uk/mcp).

### Is the Cambridge China Bridge — China sourcing MCP server safe to use?

Cambridge China Bridge — China sourcing scores 73 out of 100 on VerifyMCP. That is a record of what we were able to check automatically, not an endorsement. The category breakdown on this page shows every signal behind the number, including the ones we could not confirm.

### What tools does the Cambridge China Bridge — China sourcing MCP server expose?

Cambridge China Bridge — China sourcing exposes 10 tools: find_duty_rate, estimate_landed_cost, estimate_container_space, check_anti_dumping, find_uk_compliance, and 5 more. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 1,486 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.

### Does the Cambridge China Bridge — China sourcing MCP server require authentication?

No. We connected to Cambridge China Bridge — China sourcing without credentials and it answered, so anything it exposes is reachable by anyone who knows the address.

### Is the Cambridge China Bridge — China sourcing MCP server still maintained?

Cambridge China Bridge — China sourcing is still listed as active in the MCP registry. We last reached this channel on 27 September 2026. Those dates come from our own scans of the registry and the channel itself, not from anything the publisher announced.

## Links

- Remote endpoint: https://camchinabridge.co.uk/mcp
- Website: https://camchinabridge.co.uk/
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/uk-co-camchinabridge-sourcing/camchinabridge.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/uk-co-camchinabridge-sourcing/camchinabridge.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/uk-co-camchinabridge-sourcing/camchinabridge