Altana for Customs Brokerage

Automate your full customs brokerage workflow.

Altana has created the agentic network for global trade. With shared, pre-validated product information across importers, suppliers, and agencies like U.S. CBP, brokers classify faster, stay compliant, and turn documents into submission-ready entries in a fraction of the time, all in one place.

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The network advantage

Bring your customers onto the same network as U.S. CBP

The same AI that determines compliance attributes extends that intelligence all the way to the filing. Classification, duty determination, and the entry itself draw on one connected source of truth — the network trusted by U.S. CBP and 8 of the 10 largest logistics providers in the world.

Collaborate with clients on a shared source of truth.

Work with your customers through a collaborative product catalog with built-in trade compliance workflows. Eliminate the manual data chasing that slows every filing — and power faster, more accurate customs clearance and strategic consulting.

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How it works

Tech-enabled Trade Advisory
AI-assisted compliance at scale, including HTS classification with full GRI explanations, up-to-date tariff stacking, and provisional tariff handling.
Single collaborative workspace
Collaborate with customers directly in Altana; emails and documents write to the product catalog, which continuously updates and enriches master data.
Auto-build from history
Altana can ingest existing part-level compliance sources and historical entries to populate the product catalog, which learns from every completed entry.

Benefits

Supercharged compliance
Save 8X on time and cost for compliance work, leading to more operational capacity and less downstream customs filing work.
Win more business
By unifying product master data in a single system of record while competitors manage static tables manually cobbled together from spreadsheets.
Deepened partnerships
A shared source of truth for continuous compliance makes you more embedded with each customer, increasing your position as a strategic partner.

Entry writing the way it should be: efficient and strategic.

Altana generates submission-ready entries and other regulatory filings (ISFs, in-bond processing, PGA message sets) by automatically handling shipment documents, extracting key data, pulling part-level compliance attributes from the catalog, populating PGA requirements, and suggesting all relevant provisional tariffs and required tariff stacking. Brokers simply review and transmit entries via their ABI system.

How it works

Pre-verified high-quality data
Altana’s platform helps establish a product's full trade compliance attributes before the entry is written and then updates on-the-fly as needed when compliant entries are completed.
Real-time audit
Altana automatically reconciles the bill of lading, commercial invoice, and packing list, then flags exceptions for your team to clear with full audit trails available.
Rules you control, in plain language
Write each importer's requirements as enforceable rules with no code and no IT tickets, turning your know-how and SOPs into a new AI-enabled way of working.
Fits your existing stack
Altana plugs into any customs filing software and runs the full import workflow, including end-to-end shipment handling for global freight forwarders with a brokerage arm.

Benefits

Save time and cost
Your teams stop manually keying entries and start reviewing them. Documents turn into a draft entry in under 5 minutes, and each writer clears 3 to 5x more filings than before.
Time to value
Live in 30 days or less, with no templates to set up. Altana stands up the catalog from your historical entries and existing part-level compliance, then sharpens it with every entry your team files.
Grow faster
The hours you win back allow additional capacity for brokerage business and faster, high-quality delivery, laying a foundation for increased competitiveness in the market.

Altana was built for today's trade environment.

The Altana Product Catalog automatically generates and audits HS classifications, country of origin determinations, free trade agreement qualifications, duty calculations, and partner government agency attestations. Your Customs experts review and fill in low-confidence results, which improves the AI.

Altana extracts unstructured document data and EDI to generate customs entries and regulatory filings (ISFs, in-bond, PGA sets). Your team reviews and files these submission-ready entries directly within your existing TMS and ABI; Altana never submits on its own.

Regulation and tariff changes (Section 122, 232, 301, AD/CVD) update automatically and are applied across your product catalog, with full auditability.

Altana continuously screens every product in every customs entry for detention and audit risks, such as multi-tier forced labor, misdeclared origin, and denied parties, using the same risk intelligence it provides to CBP and other regulators.

Brokers and shippers can share Product Passports with regulators before goods are shipped to pre-validate compliance. Complex duty, origin, or provenance issues can be resolved directly in the Product Passport with suppliers and authorities. This ensures fewer holds and faster clearance—Global Entry, but for goods.

Real-world outcomes

<5 min From documents to a draft entry.

3–5x More entry filings processed per writer.

300% ROI After expanding capacity and allocating that efforts to other parts of the business.

Testimonials

Hear what the community is saying about the Altana trade network

"Before Altana, everything was manual — emails, data entry, and constant follow-ups. Now we're saving around 75% of the time, and we're able to take on new accounts without adding headcount."

Antonio Luna,

Founder, Vitti Logistics

Antonio Luna,

Founder, Vitti Logistics

"Compliant value chains don't exist in isolation. Altana and Maersk ensure our customers can harness the power of trusted supply and distribution networks — no matter where they operate."

Lars Karlsson,

Global Head of Trade & Customs Consulting, Maersk

Lars Karlsson,

Global Head of Trade & Customs Consulting, Maersk

“We are proud to partner with leading technology platforms like Altana to help increase efficiency for our clients and our employees.”

Adam Hill,

CEO, Scarbrough Global

Adam Hill,

CEO, Scarbrough Global

"We have built an extensive global physical network across 200 countries over the last 100 years. We now have further enabled it by layering on Altana's digital network to help our customers, and to further illuminate global supply chain opportunities and risks."

Amgad Shehata,

SVP, Global Public Affairs & Strategy, UPS

Amgad Shehata,

SVP, Global Public Affairs & Strategy, UPS

Speed up customs clearance — without giving up compliance or control.

See how Altana writes and checks the entry, ready for your team to file, all on one trusted network.

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