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Descartes CustomsInfo

Powerful Global Trade Content

Descartes CustomsInfo™ helps maximize the value of trade data by helping organizations work smarter. Our suite of solutions help to improve efficiency, increase visibility and achieve higher trade compliance rates, while reducing risk and duty spend.

From fueling Global Trade Management (GTM) systems with trade content, streamlining automation, improving classification processes, driving e-commerce solutions and more; Descartes CustomsInfo unites systems and people with the trade information they need to help power international commerce and improve compliance.

Who Uses Descartes CustomsInfo?

With a vast database of data relating to regulations, rulings, duties and more, Descartes CustomsInfo helps clients minimize trade barriers.

Some of the world’s largest international e-commerce sites also leverage our powerful data resources to provide customers with more accurate landed cost information, improve the online shopping experience, add to overall compliance and reduce operating costs.

600,000
Combined U.S. and European Union binding rulings

Shippers, customs brokers, third-party logistics providers (3PLs), freight forwarders, multimodal carriers, compliance professionals and others use Descartes CustomsInfo to help build and maintain complex classification databases for their global operations. Our content includes:

152
Countries’ & territories’ duty and tariff information
220
Countries’ & territories’ regulatory information

Descartes CustomsInfo solutions include the following comprehensive service offerings to better manage trade content:

Descartes CustomsInfo™ Reference

Thousands of customers use Descartes CustomsInfo Reference online subscription service to better demonstrate reasonable care and support classification determinations. With a sizable database of over 6-million reference documents, including cross-referenced and searchable duty rates, Customs rulings, regulations, World Customs Organization (WCO) Explanatory Notes, WCO Opinions, Commodity Export Codes, Other Government Agency (OGA) information, Customs Directives, an Export Control Classification Number (ECCN) locators and more, Descartes CustomsInfo Reference can help you make better classification decisions.

Descartes CustomsInfo™ Manager

Discover a better way to work with a powerful Software as a Service (SaaS) solution to manage compliance down to the SKU, part or item level. Descartes CustomsInfo Manager was designed with the compliance professional in mind. This classification workbench includes role-based permissions and workflow processes to help establish enterprise-wide controls in multiple jurisdictions for a full organizational reach. With Descartes CustomsInfo Manager in place, businesses can increase efficiency related to customs classification, item-level compliance, global trade data and document management which should result in lower costs.

Descartes CustomsInfo™ Audit

Data integrity is fundamental to trade compliance. Descartes CustomsInfo Audit is a sophisticated trade data analysis and verification solution that can reduce the overall time and therefore the cost required to conduct customs-related audits or digital data analysis. The solution can expand the capabilities of the Descartes CustomsInfo Manager or can serve as a stand-alone product. An advanced algorithm electronically links and compares the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), classification and broker-related data of each customs entry/declaration and verifies the accuracy of each submission.

Descartes CustomsInfo™ Application Content

Our content powers global trade by streaming data into Global Trade Management (GTM) solutions. In today’s changing global regulatory landscape, leveraging accurate content is more important than ever to avoid fines and improve processes. From small businesses to multi-national operations, some of the largest e-commerce sites in the world are powered by the Descartes CustomsInfo Application Content solution. Our expert team of Information Technology (IT) professionals can work with you to map existing fields and databases to ensure that information seamlessly powers your systems via the electronic method of your choice.

Descartes CustomsInfo™ Classification Services

The meticulous nature of classification is challenging. From classification services, trade technology consulting, reporting, analysis and more, our team of highly experienced compliance professionals can free you to focus on operational goals. From large project work to smaller niche and specialty classification, our world-class professional services team can help you succeed.