The primary objective of this service is to assist customs and revenue authorities enhance revenues by collecting the correct amount of duties and taxes. Through a research of export markets and specific products and product groups, ICS will provide to customs authorities valuable information which may raise doubts regarding the truth or accuracy of the declared transaction value. Additionally, a thorough document review allows ICS to detect and report cases of tariff misclassification leading to potential losses in revenues. ICS also delivers solutions and specialized technology for price research and maintaining a price database for Customs reference, which is called the MicroClear Price Research System. |
For importers who do not have a broker/agent and lack access to the internet or computer equipment, ICS will provide, upon agreement with the customs administration, Customs Data Capture assistance by placing a few of its own staff in each customs location. Importers will bring their commercial documents and the ICS staff will help them with data entry into our MicroClear Price Research System. Since our system also allows the uploading of scanned documents, the ICS staff will also help importers with the scanning of their commercial documents. |