Altana for Trade Facilitation
Facilitate trusted trade. Focus enforcement on real risk.
Every time a shipment reaches the border, Customs evaluates it as if for the first time. And as trade regulations increasingly require compliance across the value chain, each of those decisions needs a fuller picture.
With Altana, importers share verified product value chains before goods ship, Customs pre-validates trusted goods, and AI monitors them for change. Every future entry becomes a simple record-keeping event against a decision already made. Officers focus on the highest-risk threats. Now, trusted trade can just flow.
Three shifts that change how Customs facilitates trade
From transactions → products
Carry product knowledge across shipments. Validate a good once, monitor it continuously, and stop reconstructing classification, origin, value, and risk at every border crossing.
From detain and review → resolve before shipping
Customs and importers work through compliance questions together before goods ship – or are even manufactured – to ensure smooth border operations and avoid detentions.
From trusted traders → trusted products
Establish green lanes for trusted goods so enforcement capacity focuses on new, changed, or high-risk shipments. Partner government agencies can connect to the same shared product catalog, resolving their clearance requirements from a single source of product truth.
How it works
A Global Green Lane for Goods
Validate once
Importers trace and verify their value chains and share them with Customs as Product Passports before goods ship, or even before they’re made. Customs screens each one and makes its own determination, with Altana’s AI as an input.
Monitor continuously
AI watches every pre-validated product for change. Trusted goods stay trusted unless something material changes.
Act on exceptions only
Officers focus on what’s new, changed, or risky, and resolve gaps with importers directly inside the Passport.
Digital trade corridors
One Passport. Many authorities. Your decisions.
Product Passports are designed to be shared with partner government agencies and other customs authorities, each screening and deciding by its own rules. Traders pre-validate their goods across jurisdictions. You stay in control – no central platform runs anyone’s border. Your rules. Your decisions. Your data sovereignty.
Facilitation that strengthens enforcement
Every product pre-validated is one officers don’t re-review, and every value chain shared sharpens the next targeting decision.
The network
Powered by an AI network
Eight of the world’s 10 largest logistics providers and global enterprises run their supply chains on Altana. By connecting to the network, your agency doesn’t just get data about trade. You receive the trade itself: Product Passports and pre-arrival entries from the importers and carriers moving goods to your border, ready to validate before they arrive.
That same activity powers Altana’s Supply Chain Graph: 141M supply chain linkages, roughly half of them from industry operations available nowhere else. Fuse your own sovereign data inside your dedicated environment, and every validation and resolution makes the picture more complete.
Real-world results
47 false positive detentions of the same product → 1 trusted value chain
Customs detained the same product, from the same supplier, 47 times in a row, and released it every time. Then the importer shared its value chain through an Altana Product Passport. Customs reviewed it once, and the detentions stopped. Pre-validation replaced interrogation. Traceability then spread upstream to textile and cotton sources and downstream to other brands the manufacturer supplies.
The same product was detained 47 times. After the importer shared its value chain through a Product Passport, Customs reviewed it once and the detentions stopped.
elimination of repeat detentions and false customs holds through Product Passports
faster entry processing
product-level proof of compliance accepted by U.S. Customs and Border Protection
The network for trusted trade.
Join the network where Customs and industry work from the same value chain intelligence to keep trusted trade moving.