Customs procedures information management

During the process of electronic submission of Customs procedures and declarations, there is a wealth of messages produced within the conversation between the administration and the declarant. Requests and answers constitute an information flow that is not only useful for the submitting party, but for any other agent related with the trade transaction.

ETN is able to communicate the interested parties in an information distribution process where responses from Customs administrations do not end in the submitting agent, but propagate to reach other involved parties. MXS is built over typical Customs electronic procedures provided by the ETN partners.

Extensive MXS

To use MXS, customer companies are assigned an ETN address, a unique internal identification code that signals to one specific trade/customs point (premise, office, server, ...) -much like an e-mail address. This address can then be used by a customer when accessing certain customs procedure to make the corresponding party to receive the appropiate messages during the conversation between the declarant and the Customs administration.

The ETN address can be known by the parties involved in a trading process, and it can even be consulted in ETN's own white pages: the ETN directory. [Publishing requires customer's approval]

MSP

The Message Service Portfolio has been the prototype phase of MXS. Implemented for NCTS Transits messages, MSP has shown the wide potential of the interconnection of networks and the sharing of customs procedures information flow between trading partners.

MSP provides true benefits for our customers obtained from the message flow management:

For the consignee

• MRN number in advance (avoiding typing errors).
• Detailed information on expected goods (to reserve room in warehouse, to avoid manual data entering, ...).

For the shipper

• Prompt information about the time and place of arrival (arrival notification).
• Information about the status and condition of goods at arrival (sending unload report to the shipper to manage guarantee issues, since customs only informs when no problem occurs).