Customs Procedures
Customs procedures are the regulated processes that govern how goods are entered into, transited through, and exported from a customs territory. The major procedures include release for free circulation (consumption entry), customs warehousing, inward and outward processing, temporary admission (e.g., ATA Carnet), transit (T1, TIR), and re-export. The Revised Kyoto Convention and the WCO SAFE Framework provide the international baseline; national authorities such as U.S. CBP, the European Commission's DG TAXUD, and HMRC publish their own procedures and codes. Most procedures are operationalized through national customs computer systems (ACE, ICS2, AES, CDS) and rely on EDI messaging rather than public REST APIs.
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Providers working in Customs Procedures
Providers whose own tags share at least two of this topic's tags, most shared first.
| Provider | About | Rating | APIs |
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| International Trade Administration | The International Trade Administration (ITA) creates prosperity by strengthening the international competitiveness of U.S. industry, promoting trade and investment, and ensuring fair trade and compliance with trade laws and agreements. ITA… | thin | 1 |
| CBP | U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is the nation's largest law enforcement agency and a major revenue-collecting authority, responsible for facilitating legitimate international trade and travel while enforcing trade laws, collecting… | thin | 4 |
| UN Comtrade | United Nations international trade statistics database with a REST API for accessing import/export data, commodity trade flows, and bilateral trade statistics. Covers over 200 reporting countries and territories with data spanning goods an… | developing | 1 |
| Customs and Border Protection | U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is the federal law enforcement agency within the Department of Homeland Security responsible for apprehending individuals attempting to enter the United States illegally, stemming the flow of illega… | emerging | 5 |
| ShipFinder AIS Data API | ShipFinder, operated by Singapore-based ELANE GLOBAL PTE. LTD., publishes a REST/HTTP maritime data API that turns the global AIS feed into queryable vessel intelligence. Forty documented operations are organised into seven datasets: AIS (… | developing | 2 |
| Foreign Agricultural Service | The Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) is the trade and export agency of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), working to promote U.S. agricultural exports and expand global markets for American agricultural products. FAS run… | developing | 2 |
| Export-Import Bank of the United States | The U.S. Export-Import Bank (EXIM) is the official export credit agency of the United States federal government. It assists in financing and facilitating U.S. exports of goods and services by providing export credit insurance, working capi… | thin | 2 |
| TradeLanes | TradeLanes is a trade execution and operational-intelligence platform for U.S. exporters, freight forwarders, and drayage teams. Its Vessel Schedule Report (VSR) delivers a daily delta-only view of ERD and CY cutoff changes across 40+ U.S.… | emerging | 0 |
| Donkey | Donkey is an AI-native trading company (Y Combinator, Summer 2026) that buys directly from Chinese factories and sells delivered duty-paid to US importers. Donkey mines public US customs records to identify the factory that actually makes… | minimal | 0 |
| Agraga | Agraga (operated by Virya Logistics Technologies Private Limited) is a Chennai, India based digital cross-border logistics platform founded in 2021 by Anoop Raghavan and Venkatesh Narayanaswamy. It positions itself as a single operator for… | minimal | 0 |