Method and systems for providing electronic customs form

Abstract From the Canadian patent

Methods and systems are provided for creating and processing an electronic customs declaration manifest. These methods and systems include creating a image of the customs declaration form, converting the image of the customs declaration form into an electronic customs manifest and transferring the , electronic customs manifest to a database. In addition a image is may also be , forwarded electronically to a remote encoding center where the customs , declaration form data is manually converted into an electronic file for storing in a database. Customs services of both the originating and destination countries review the declared information stored in the database. When the …