With the rise of the e-commerce trades around the globe, the customs authorities are experiencing an increasing number of imported shipments. This is because the e-commerce business model eliminates the intermediate steps & delivers goods more directly to the end-users. This leads to an increase of import & export of goods to different non-standard destinations, and to an explosion of customs declarations to inspect and extract useful data. In addition, small shipments often benefit from tax exemptions, because when the customs law was idealized small shipments were seen as non-business exchanges among privates. This leads to a competitive disadvantage for traditional enterprises which are subjected to higher taxes and pushes businesses to prefer smaller shipments to the conventional ones.

As a result, the bill of entry and other billing of e-commerce shipments has become a major challenge and customs authorities experienced an increasing number of Billing Entries from importers of goods and fiscal frauds. Finally, in such a chaotic environment, customs also have more difficulties in detecting counterfeit data. In particular, forecasting about 15% increase in customs declarations over the next five years. In this scenario, manual cross-checking and data entry is time consuming and is no longer possible because of the massive quantity of shipments. For this reason, we at AGIBrains plan to implement the latest data analytics technologies using AI to innovate logistics and warehousing operations automatically.