UTi Customs Brokerage:
we get it right

Customs Brokerage: how we keep freight moving forward

UTi operates in 60+ countries around the world, performing over one million transactions every single year. Whether you're importing or exporting, a vital part of international shipping is securing and organizing all the necessary documentation and electronic customs filings required to get freight to its destination. With UTi, that process is made easy because of highly trained personnel that process customs brokerage entries quickly and accurately.

Choosing UTi's Customs Brokerage

UTi's Customs Brokerage is also offered as a stand-alone service, independent of freight forwarding. We have extensive experience in Trade and Compliance services that enable us to support the trade process throughout our global network quickly and compliantly. Our clients have us manage the organization of all necessary documentation and leverage the decades of experience we have in customs brokerage so they can focus on their businesses, not just the cross-border involved. UTi's services include:

Government Documentation

  • Export declarations
  • Commercial invoices
  • Pro-forma invoices
  • Consular invoices and legalization
  • State department licenses

Carnets

  • Certificates of Insurance
  • Special documents required by individual countries

Banking Documents/Collection

  • Letters of credit
  • Cash on Delivery (COD)

Bonded shipment management

  • Single-entry shipment
  • Shipments arriving on a continuous basis
  • Bonded warehousing services in various countries for duty deferment
  • Cross-country bonded activities – movement in bond to final point of clearance

Reports

  • Landed cost calculations
  • Summary of activities
  • Updates on customs changes

Consulting

  • VAT review
  • Classification projects
  • Valuation review
  • Trade agreement review
  • Country of origin determination
  • Compliance assessments
  • Duty engineering
  • Rulings
  • C-TPAT
  • Client seminar/webinars
  • Protests
  • Post-Entry projects
  • FDA Facility Registration

The end benefit of efficient customs brokerage services

Let UTi handle your customs brokerage process either as part of our full range of global logistics solutions or as a stand-alone service, and we will provide electronic connection to local customs for your pending shipments pre-clearance at port of entry prior to arrival (where applicable), clearance documentation, tariff classification, duty and tax determination, and door-to-door service — everything you require to keep goods moving along your supply chain.