Need help to simplify my formula

qsdr

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At the moment, I am working on a formula to look up "Duty Rates" based on a couple of things.

1. Customer - Certain customers have their stock re-exported upon entry, so their duty is always 0%
2. Style Number - Certain styles have less/more duty, despite their garment (name) type.
3. Garment type - Certain types of garments have different duty rates.
Maybe because I've been working on this sheet all morning I'm overcomplicating things, so I was hoping someone could help me simplify the formula so I can use it. Or at least explain ISNA to me.
I started with nested IF formulas, because we were content to just manually enter the duty rate if the style number/garment type caused it to be different. However, this means that anyone can forget to change it, and it's a hassle.
So, I made the different sheets for Customer, Style Number, Garment Type, and was doing VLOOKUP. But then I could only do one VLOOKUP (or so I thought at the time).
Now, I have thought of doing ISNA.. but I can't seem to type up the formula properly.
I presume it should look something like:

=IF(ISNA(VLOOKUP(CUSTOMER),IF(ISNA(VLOOKUP(STYLE NUMBER),VLOOKUP(GARMENT TYPE)..
then I finish off all the ISNA formulas?
But to finish them, I read somewhere that you have to enter the formulas all over again, leaving me with 9 formulas, which is too many.

Sorry, I'm pretty new to formulas, so I'm not really sure what to do.
 

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Which lookup functions find a value equal or greater than the lookup value?
MATCH uses -1 to find larger value (lookup table must be sorted ZA). XLOOKUP uses 1 to find values greater and does not need to be sorted.
Hi. If I have understood then this should work.
I have the transaction customer, style and garment type in A17:C17.
I have named range for the customer list, style list and type list.

=IF(NOT(ISERROR(VLOOKUP(A17,customerlist,1,FALSE))),0,IF(ISERROR(VLOOKUP(B17,stylelist,2,FALSE)),VLOOKUP(C17,Garment_list,2,FALSE),VLOOKUP(B17,stylelist,2,FALSE)))

It will return #N/A if customer is not an exporter and the style is not on the list and the type does not exist
 
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