Are your international shipments stuck for days at the border due to manual customs paperwork, generating fines and delivery delays?
For a B2B SME that exports or imports goods, customs is the biggest logistical obstacle. When an order leaves your warehouse, your export team must gather commercial invoices, calculate tariff headings (HS codes), and send all this information by email to an external customs broker. This manual process, full of back-and-forth emails, causes the merchandise to arrive at the border before the paperwork. The result is retained pallets, abusive costs for storage days (demurrage), and furious corporate clients due to missed delivery deadlines.
The trap of Obsolete Customs Portals
To try to reduce reliance on the external broker, some companies assign an employee to type the data directly into the outdated web portals of the Tax Agency or logistics providers. Turning your team into manual transcribers of endless tariff codes is ensuring technical errors that will paralyze your international sales.
Our solution: Cloud Customs API Integration
At LANZA ESTUDIO, we break down the barriers of your international logistics. As Cloud engineers, we develop a secure Middleware that connects your ERP or warehouse system directly with government and logistics operator APIs.
- Automatic Tariff Classification: Upon creating the order, the API reads your catalog and automatically assigns the correct HS (Harmonized System) code to each product, avoiding penalties for misclassification.
- Cloud Documentation Generation: The Cloud system extracts data from the ERP and instantly generates the Commercial Invoice, Packing List, and Certificate of Origin in the required digital format.
- Intervention-Free Customs Declaration: The gateway transmits the export declaration directly to the customs servers, obtaining the green light release before the truck even reaches the border.
- Accurate Tax Calculation (Landed Cost): The integration allows you to calculate international tariffs and VAT in real time, charging your client the exact cost from the very beginning.
The Real Impact on your Foreign Trade
- Eradication of Border Holds: By submitting data electronically and without typographical errors, your shipments cross customs seamlessly via the green channel.
- Drastic Savings on Customs Brokers: You drastically reduce the monthly bill of intermediaries and external managers, internalizing and automating the technical clearance process.
- Frictionless Global Expansion: Your SME gains the logistical capacity of a multinational, being able to scale its sales to dozens of new countries without collapsing your administration department.