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 Export Assure provides a high-quality international shipping experience with AI-supported guidance that streamlines compliance requirements and helps reduce delays and shipment abandonment by assisting with commodity descriptions, HS code lookup, import and export compliance, and required forms.

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 Export Assure uses AI to automatically suggest the most likely Harmonized System (HS) code based on product descriptions, helping improve customs compliance for the EU and other international shipments. By reducing classification errors, it can help minimize customs delays and clearance issues.

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 Export Assure, UPS Paperless, 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 packages 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 Export Assure uses AI-powered guidance to support product classification and compliance, UPS Paperless enables electronic customs documentation, and the UPS Customs Detail API helps automate the submission of customs and trade data to streamline cross-border shipping workflows.