International Shipping Tools

How does the UPS Global Checkout™ tool provide a guaranteed landed cost?

UPS Global Checkout leverages advanced technologies to calculate duties, taxes, and fees, while also helping merchants stay current with changing international trade regulations and requirements. The UPS Global Checkout tool integrates with a merchant's online shopping cart to exchange shipment data with UPS and provide guaranteed* landed costs.

What digital tools prevent unexpected delivery charges for global customers?

UPS offers digital tools designed to create a more transparent international shipping experience and help reduce unexpected costs:

• The UPS Global Checkout tool provides guaranteed* landed costs that merchants can display in their online shopping cart at checkout, enabling customers to see and pay applicable duties, taxes, and fees upfront. This helps create a more transparent purchasing experience and reduce unexpected import charges at delivery.
• UPS Global Advisor provides AI-powered estimated landed cost guidance that helps businesses estimate duties, taxes, VAT, government fees, and brokerage charges before shipping. By providing greater visibility into potential cross-border costs, UPS Global Advisor helps customers make more informed shipping decisions and reduce unexpected charges associated with international shipments.

How can enterprise businesses automate duties and tax calculations?

The UPS Global Checkout tool automates duty, tax and fee calculations, enabling businesses to provide accurate landed costs before an order is completed. Through the UPS Global Checkout API, businesses can integrate these capabilities directly into their ecommerce platforms, shopping carts, and order management systems, enabling real-time landed cost calculations at checkout. This helps enterprise businesses streamline ecommerce logistics and cross-border sales, reduce operational complexity, and provide customers with greater cost transparency through automated duty, tax, and fee calculations.

How can I submit international trade and customs documentation electronically?

UPS offers electronic solutions that help simplify international shipping documentation and customs compliance:

• UPS Paperless^® enables customers to submit customs documentation electronically, helping streamline shipping preparation, reduce the risk of lost or damaged documents, minimize manual data entry errors, and speed customs clearance.
• For shipments requiring additional regulatory information, the UPS Customs Detail API allows shippers to proactively submit customs and trade data electronically to UPS for regulations such as Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) and Section 232. The API validates required data upfront and helps reduce customs holds, shipment delays, and clearance times by integrating compliance data into shipping workflows.
• UPS shipping on UPS.com and the UPS WorldShip^® software, allows customers to upload required shipping and customs documentation electronically, helping simplify documentation management and support efficient shipment processing.

How does an AI-powered shipping assistant help with HS codes for the EU?

• UPS Global Advisor features AI-powered HS Code Look-Up technology that uses product descriptions to suggest likely Harmonized System (HS) codes, helping businesses classify products more accurately for EU and international shipments. Improved classification accuracy can help support customs compliance, improve shipment readiness, and reduce the risk of customs delays caused by classification errors.

How can I clear international customs holds faster using shipping software?

UPS can help customers address customs holds proactively through a secure online experience for sharing required information and documents, while also helping reduce the likelihood of holds occurring in the first place. Solutions like UPS Paperless, UPS Global Advisor and the UPS Customs Detail API help improve documentation accuracy, streamline compliance, and support smoother customs clearance.

How can I consolidate customs clearance for multiple international shipments?

The World Ease^® service allows customers to ship cross-border international parcels to multiple recipients within the same country as a consolidated shipment. The consolidated shipment moves and clears customs as one transaction and is then split for delivery in the destination country. It simplifies your supply chain, reduces customs clearance and logistics costs, enhances cross-border shipping processes and supports a premium customer experience.

What international shipping tools are available for ecommerce compliance?

UPS offers a range of tools to help simplify ecommerce compliance for international shipments:

• UPS Global Advisor helps customers plan international shipments upfront
• UPS Paperless enables electronic customs documentation
• The UPS Customs Detail API helps automate the submission of customs and trade data to streamline cross-border shipping workflows.

How can I prevent international shipping compliance issues before shipping?

UPS Global Advisor helps businesses prepare for international shipments before they are shipped by providing AI-powered tools for HS code lookup, estimated landed cost guidance, country-specific trade requirements, and centralized product catalog management. Customers can save compliant product descriptions, classification information, and shipping data in a single location, helping improve shipment readiness, support cross-border compliance, and reduce the risk of customs delays or unexpected shipping issues.