A declaration in the language your buyer's customs office expects
Upload an invoice or packing list. Customs Declare classifies the HS code, checks rules of origin and CITES restrictions across 20 trade agreements, and prepares a declaration on the destination country's own form -- in that country's own required language, from a library of 59. You review and approve every declaration before you submit it.
What actually holds up an export
The wrong form, or the wrong language
A destination customs office can reject a declaration outright for using the wrong form or the wrong language -- a costly discovery to make at the border, not before.
Missing a CITES permit
Restricted species or materials need a permit arranged in advance -- found late, this is a shipment that doesn't move on schedule.
Paying full duty when a trade agreement would apply
Goods that qualify for preferential treatment under AfCFTA, USMCA, RCEP, or another trade agreement save real money on the buyer's side -- money left on the table if the rules of origin were never checked.
Missing an export license, or a shipment that's outright prohibited
Some products need an export license or permit from the origin country before they can ship at all, and a few origin-destination pairs are prohibited outright. Customs Declare checks this automatically and blocks a declaration from generating when it finds a genuine export prohibition, instead of leaving it to be discovered after the shipment has already left.
How Customs Declare helps
Every shipment goes through the same five steps -- upload, classify, validate, review & approve, declare -- so the same checks run whether it's your first export to a country or your hundredth, and nothing goes out without your sign-off.
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Upload
Upload an invoice or packing list, send it through the API, or connect a mailbox so emailed documents come in automatically.
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Classify
Each line item is read and matched against the full HS2022 nomenclature to propose an HS code.
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Validate
Checked against rules of origin, CITES-protected species, country-specific import and export licensing and prohibitions, MFN vs. preferential duty rates across 20 trade agreements, and additional charges like community-bloc and vehicle import levies where they apply -- AfCFTA, USMCA, RCEP, the EU, and more.
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Review & approve
You approveEvery declaration comes back to you first -- HS codes, duty figures, every flagged detail. Nothing leaves your workspace until you've reviewed it and explicitly approved it, no matter how confident the automated classification is.
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Declare
Customs Declare produces the completed declaration document for the destination's own form and authority, in that country's required language -- 59 languages supported. You submit it to the customs authority yourself, or hand it to your broker.
A real example: walnuts into India
Shelled walnuts (HS 0802.32) exported from an ASEAN country into India face a standard MFN duty rate of 100% -- but qualify for 0% under AITIGA (the ASEAN-India Trade in Goods Agreement) when the origin requirements are met. On a $10,000 shipment, that's the full $10,000 in duty, eliminated by one correctly-claimed agreement. India's Bill of Entry, filed through ICEGATE, still needs to carry that claim correctly -- Customs Declare checks it and builds the form in the structure India's own customs authority (CBIC) expects.
Declaration requirements are researched and cited for all 193 destination countries, not just the corridors you already know well.
Look up what your destination country requires, or compare MFN and preferential duty rates before you quote a buyer.