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Customs
Compliant Cross-Border Trade
Every Parcel Border-Ready, Before It Moves
Capture complete, accurate advance data at acceptance and clear customs by design, so cross-border items keep moving instead of piling up in held-parcel queues.
The "Advance Data" Gap
ICS2, the STOP Act and EAD mandates all demand complete, accurate customs data before an item crosses a border. Legacy acceptance captures too little, too late, so parcels are held, returned or fined, and cross-border revenue stalls.
Manual declarations and mismatched data push the cost onto clerks and customers. Under-declared HS codes, wrong origin countries and split values slip through, and the operator carries the liability when a regulator notices.
Compliant by Design
Build the customs check into acceptance, not the back office. The platform validates and completes advance data as the item is booked, classifies goods, screens restricted items and denied parties, and hands clean, compliant data to customs before the parcel leaves the counter.
Complete Advance Data
Capture and validate the data ICS2, EAD and the STOP Act require at the point of acceptance, so items arrive at the border pre-cleared rather than pending inspection.
Classification and Screening
Powered by Hurricane, the platform suggests HS codes, calculates duties and taxes, and screens restricted items and denied parties, cutting the manual work and the errors that trigger holds.
Duty and Tax at the Counter
Landed cost, duties and taxes are calculated and collected up front, so recipients are not surprised on the doorstep and parcels are not abandoned at delivery.
Escher’s cross-border compliance runs inside the same platform that handles the counter, the network and settlement, so customs data is captured once and reused everywhere. Posts use it to keep cross-border parcels moving as ICS2 and EAD mandates tighten.
IT & Procurement Confidence
Standards: ICS2, EAD, HS classification, ITMATT and CARDIT messaging, aligned to current UPU and customs requirements.
Integration: Connects to customs platforms, carrier systems and government back-ends through documented, API-first interfaces.
Accuracy: Validation and screening at acceptance reduce held parcels, returns and the manual rework that legacy customs data creates.
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