Patent ID: 7426514
Filing Date: 2008-09-16
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A method for facilitating customs planning and clearance, the method comprising the steps of: creating in an international customs server, in response to a signal communicated through a client device coupled for data communications through at least one internet connection to the international customs server, a master customs planning record, wherein the master customs planning record comprises: creating in an international customs server a related customs planning record, wherein the related customs planning record is related through a foreign key field to the master customs planning record, wherein the related customs planning record comprises: calculating duty on the goods described in the related customs planning record; storing the amount of the calculated duty in the duty amount field in the related customs planning record; and incrementing, by the amount of the calculated duty stored in the duty amount field in the related customs planning record, the total amount of duty stored in the duty total field in the master customs planning record.