The United States imports roughly $ 2 trillion in goods through its borders. Most of the documentation associated with this trade is filed manually. The US Custom’s department offers brokers to file this information electronically however a stringent and complicated certification process means only about 18 companies in all of the US are certified for this submission. To make matters worse, during the last 10 years, US import regulations have changed a great deal. There have been many factors that contributed to the increased complexity of the procedures that importers and brokers have to undergo, which include.

• The threat of terrorism after the tragic incident of 9/11 attacks.
• More frequent changes in the US Customs regulations than ever before.
• Increased complexity of the forms submitted by importers and brokers to the US Customs.
• Inclusion of many new categories which further complicated the filing procedure that needed to be completed

ACELynk aimed to become the premier cloud service provider for Custom submissions by integrating its cloud-hosted front end (AceLynk) with US Customs’ Automated Commercial System (ACS).